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Against each point of your LoMR's
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Against each of your users needs/ wants.
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Have you who/ what/ when/ where/ how?
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Digital model/ simulations
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Individual component success & material testing
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Opinions of 3rd parties
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Comparative evaluation against other existing solutions
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Success of any testing
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Focus group feedback
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SWOT analysis
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Use of any data
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Use of any testing results
Suggestions for further/ future improvements/ developments
Use the topics discussed in section 8 to help focus your evaluation
Assessment criteria says
Analysis and evaluation of primary and/or secondary sources
Exceptional analysis and evaluation of investigated sources of information from stakeholders, existing products and wider issues, offering clear and convincing support to inform the design process.
Assessment criteria says
Ongoing evaluation to manage design progression
Exceptional critical evaluations with focused reflection on requirements and feedback. Ongoing, perceptive and comprehensive reviews to identify problems and next-steps for future iterations and convincingly supports progression.
Assessment criteria says
Feasibility of the design solution
Exceptional, with fully appropriate methods used to analyse and test whether the design solution is fit for purpose.
Assessment criteria says
Evaluation of the design solution
Exceptional critical evaluation of strengths and weaknesses with perceptive and comprehensive suggestions for modification and consideration of clearly defined design optimisation presented.
Make sure that you photograph and video every element of your final outcome - different sides, openings and mechanisms, successes and failures, everything!! - you need the evidence for the moderator
Presenting your work
This section is likely to take a few pages but before you start you need to consider how you are going to review your success.
A key place to start is with the List of master requirements - what did you set out to do and how well have you done it? Don't forget that it's not just about what you think, but more importantly, what the user and other stakeholders think. Get their input!
Final Evaluation pt1 - against the LOMS
Original requirement
Needs/ wants/ requirements
How are you reviewing its success
Feedback and conclusion
Future modifications and reasons
As you work through this section, think ablout what would Make your product more successful. What would need developing/ improving/ modifying if, A) you were going to do the project again, and B), if the product needed to be developed for commercial manufacture.
Consider:
> Each individual component
> the materials that have been used
> the manufacturing of each component
> Overall assembly methods used
> Surface finishes
> Components and fixings
> Accuracy and detail
Also consider:
> Who has tested your product?
> How has your product been tested (intended use, visual, destructive etc)
Think about the level of detail you are giving and the key terms you are using
Final evaluation pt2 - evidence of testing (photos and videos)
Photo:
description of testing:
outcome:
Modifications:
Photo:
description of testing:
outcome:
Modifications:
Photo:
description of testing:
outcome:
Modifications:
Final evaluation pt3
Evaluation against other existing designs/ products
Focus group feedback
Physical testing results/ CAD simulations
Data gathered to support SWOT
Component success (SWOT)
Further development for commercial manufacture
(enhance with sketches/ new CAD)
Final evaluation pt4
Focus group feedback on testing the final prototype
Design Critique
Considerations of the marketing/ branding (it's success)
Sketches/ CAD models to show developments
Review of your QA and QC stages
Suitability for commercial manufacture (with and without evaluated modifications)
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