DESIGN

DESIGN This is the stage where you begin to be creative about finding a solution to your problem. You will need to show a __**wide range**__ (many) of __**appropriate** (maybe could work)__ and **__creative__** (imaginative)solutions to your problem (try to think "outside the box"). In most cases, designs are best done by hand (thinking with a pencil in your hand). Spending a long time editing margins and moving lines etc on a computer makes you less creative. A B

[|http://rocketsandrabbits.files.wordpress.co] [|http://ecstaticpixel.files.wordpress.com/] You will then have to evaluate these ideas against your design specification. These means that you have to explain how each design compares to the requirements of your design specification. You also have to explain why you have chosen one design over another one.

This can be done by annotating your designs ( labels that point to the specific part of the design which meets or fails to meet the design specification) Or by numbering your designs then creating notes on each design (these notes should be in eye shot of the original design) Overall, I will choose design B since it comes closest to meeting the design specification. It also has a element of elegant simplicity which I like.
 * A) this design has too many things which will add to the weight of the product || B) This design has very few unnecessary additions which add to its weight ||
 * It also does not have any means of floating on water or propelling it over water || It does not have a means of propelling it over water ||
 * || It does have some inflatable bags on the rear wheel, but I think they would be unstable on water ||

Now if you look at the designs above, there are not imaginative ( since they look like every other bicycle) and they are not a wide range since they all look very similar. They are just slight adjustments of each other.

Although these are not sketches, the pictures below give you an Idea of what a wide range of appropriate creative designs would be.

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You however are creating software (in most Units) so your designs are not of physical objects. You have do design things like colours for backgrounds, Slide transitions, layout of documents, fonts for text, font sizes, positions of pictures and indeed what pictures will be placed in your documents. This means that most of your designs do not have to be three dimensional unless you are producing a virtual model of something.


 * Assessment **
 * ===Achievemnet Level=== || ===Level Description=== ||
 * 0 || You have not reached level 1 ||
 * 1-2 || You have only made one design with some attempt to justify this design ||
 * 3-4 || You have made some designs justifying the choice of one design over another one and evaluated it against the design specification ||
 * 5-6 || You have made some really good designs and justified your choice of one design by evaluating them against the design specification ||