Unit 6: B2 Process in practice
Topic 6.1: The design process Questions
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A team needs to find out how far a surface must swing over a bed. Which model is most appropriate?
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What is the usual outcome of comparing several design ideas against a specification?
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Explain why a design idea for a ward trolley that fails one essential criterion should be rejected even if it has the highest total score.
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A team builds a model, tests it with users, and changes nothing. What does this indicate?
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A student building a ward trolley makes one high-fidelity working prototype, tests it once at the end, and reports that it works. Explain why this is not iterative development.
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Which instruction to a test user produces the most useful performance data?
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Justify the models a team should build to test a swinging bedside table surface for reach, for hand position and for stability.
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A student submits an exploded view and a render as the manufacturing information. What is missing?
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Justify including test measurements when presenting a redesigned ward trolley to a client, rather than only showing the final design.
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Which image best highlights a key usability feature of a swinging bedside table?
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A design met three of its four essential criteria. What should the presentation do?
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Which of these is an output of the 'empathize' stage?
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What is the purpose of splitting specification criteria into essential and desirable?
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Which set of ideas for reaching food in bed is genuinely DISTINCT?
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Demonstrate how the model, test, refine cycle would be used to develop a swinging bedside table surface, across three loops.
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Describe how you would test a card model of a bedside table surface with patients so that it produces useful data.
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Which observation belongs to the PERFORMANCE lens of a product analysis?
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Why does naming a solution inside a problem statement damage a project?
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Why are manufacturing dimensions taken from a single datum rather than chained?
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Apply two ideation techniques to the problem of bed-bound patients reaching food and drink on a hospital ward, and explain how they produce distinct ideas.
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