TRIPLE IMPACT
A design change that lets more people read and use a school information stand mainly creates this kind of impact.
What is a social impact?
Generating ideas is most closely associated with this term; putting a useful idea into practice is innovation.
What is creativity?
The person who handles or experiences a solution has this role.
What is the user?
Money, time, expertise, tools and workspace are all examples of these, beyond the physical material itself.
What are resources?
This document or statement explains what a design should achieve.
What is a requirement?
The effects of material extraction, manufacturing, transport, energy use and disposal are assessed in this impact area.
What is environmental impact?
This factor helps a learner keep investigating when an early idea fails.
What is motivation?
Grouping potential customers by where they live is this type of segmentation.
What is geographic segmentation?
This property describes resistance to indentation or scratching.
What is hardness?
The result that must be met for a test to count as satisfactory is called this.
What is an acceptance criterion?
Changes in cost, productivity, income and trade are considered under this impact area.
What is economic impact?
Giving a designer room to explore within agreed safety, time and resource boundaries is this.
What is autonomy?
Watching how people actually complete a task is this research method.
What is observation?
The appropriate material choice should be guided first by this, rather than appearance alone.
What is the design requirement (or function and context)?
Changing one design factor at a time helps a designer make this type of comparison.
What is a controlled comparison?
A reusable product may reduce material use, but this evidence is needed before claiming that it is better for the environment.
What is evidence about its actual lifespan, number of uses and end-of-life arrangements?
This way of working can improve creativity by bringing different perspectives and skills together.
What is collaboration (or idea sharing)?
A question asking “Is it attractive and easy to use?” should be split because it is this kind of question.
What is a double-barrelled question?
A material that can technically be recovered under suitable arrangements is described this way; it does not prove that local recovery actually occurs.
What is recyclable?
This intellectual property right principally protects a brand sign that distinguishes goods or services.
What is a trademark?
A durable stand costs more at first but uses cheaper replaceable inserts. Comparing these over the same period is an example of weighing these.
What are design trade-offs?
In SCAMPER, this prompt asks a designer to remove an unnecessary feature or layer.
What is Eliminate?
If 14 of 20 surveyed users prefer an insert, this percentage describes the surveyed group, not automatically the whole market.
What is 70%?
A cheaper blank needs extra finishing, takes longer to process and produces more waste. This explains why designers should compare this instead of purchase price alone.
What is total cost (including yield, processing, finishing and waste)?
Crediting the creator of a photograph does not automatically grant this authority to reproduce or distribute it.
What is permission (or an appropriate licence)?