The design process, needs analysis, project management and evaluation, as they apply to the Major Design Project.
These are the statements the Design and Technology syllabus makes about Design Process and the Major Design Project. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
The stages of the design process and the iterative, non-linear way real projects move through them.
Identifying a need, writing a brief, and planning a project that can actually be completed.
Prototyping, testing, modification and the documentation that makes a decision traceable.
Anthropometric data, usability and accessibility, and why a design that ignores the user fails.
Distinguishing a genuine need from an assumed one, and the evidence that supports the distinction.
Writing criteria that can be evaluated, and recognising which constraints are fixed and which are negotiable.
Gantt charts, milestones and risk, and the planning failure that most often derails a project.
Testing against criteria rather than preference, and using evidence to justify a modification.
Design rights, attribution and the professional standards a designer is expected to meet.
Sketching, rendering, technical drawing and presentation, and communicating to a specific audience.
HSC Design and Technology - Written Paper Shape is 40 marks in 90 minutes. Questions on Design Process and the Major Design Project are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Design and Technology uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Design Process and the Major Design Project opens the Design and Technology course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Design and Technology dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.