3.3 Designing and making principles

Design and develop prototypes in response to client wants and needs. Note the term prototype can be used to describe either a product or system.

How the development of prototypes:

• satisfy the requirements of the brief

• respond to client wants and needs

• demonstrate innovation

• are functional

• consider aesthetics

• are potentially marketable.

Students should know and understand how to evaluate prototypes and be able to:

• reflect critically, responding to feedback when evaluating their own prototypes

• suggest modifications to improve them through inception and manufacture

• assess if prototypes are fit for purpose.