Factors Affecting Design
This factor ensures products are comfortable, safe, and efficient for user interaction.
Ergonomics
Legal protections including copyright, patents, and trademarks that safeguard a designer's original work.
Intellectual Property
Government bodies, financial institutions, and industry groups that support innovation by providing funding, regulation, and market access.
Innovation Agencies
Mandatory legislative guidelines and protocols designed to ensure safe working conditions and hazard identification in production environments.
WHS
Mr Young's Dog's name or type
Shelby - Fox Terrier
A structured method used to assess the environmental impact of a product from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal.
Life Cycle Analysis
An Australian medical innovation that transformed the lives of people with hearing loss and improved global healthcare outcomes.
Cochlear Implant
An innovation that failed due to cultural resistance, privacy concerns, and social discomfort despite advanced wearable technology.
Google Glasses
An outdoor clothing brand known for ethical resource selection, using recycled polyester and organic cotton to reduce environmental impact.
Patagonia
Which song (from Mr Young's era) contains the lyric 'Addicted to the shindig'
Cant Stop - RHCP
This personal transporter failed commercially due to poor market research, high cost, and limited real-world functionality despite technological innovation
Segway
This global furniture brand uses flat-pack designs to respond to social and economic trends like urbanisation and smaller living spaces.
IKEA
This digital streaming innovation succeeded largely due to timing as internet speeds increased and digital devices became widespread.
Netflix
Industrial processes such as testing, inspection, and tolerance checks used to ensure products consistently meet specifications.
Quality Assurance / Quality Control
Which of the most famous George Lucas movies came out the year Mr Young was born?
Return of the Jedi
This design strategy involves intentionally creating products that fail or become outdated quickly to encourage repeated purchases.
Obselescence
International trade networks and worldwide communication expansion that affect material availability, production costs, and global standards.
Globalisation
Visual tools such as flowcharts, mind maps, and design journals used to structure thinking and track the evolution of design ideas.
Cognitive Organisers
techniques like laser cutting, CNC machining, and 3D printing that provide high precision and rapid production.
CAM
A closed-chain upper-body movement performed from a fixed bar with the forearms in a supinated position
Chin Up
Formulated after initial investigation, this document outlines the design problem, target user, project purpose, and criteria for success.
Design Brief
The trend towards this has meant that many advertisements, brand strategies and business to customer communications have become less formal
Social Media
This company used high-speed digital motors and aerodynamic experimentation with airflow technology to develop an innovative range of products
Dyson
Research methods like surveys and numerical measurements that produce statistical data to identify patterns.
Quantitative Research Methods
What is the most common dream and its common interpretation
Falling - loss of control