Higher Design & Manufacture - Design Factors

Function is.......

• What a product is designed to do

• How well a product does what it is designed to do

• How a product looks

• Anything else a product can do that is wasn't designed for

Durability and ease of maintenance are issues that come under......

• Function

• Performance

• Aesthetics

• Ergonomics

What is consumer demand?

• When companies release a new product

• Where technology has allowed advancements to be made to a product

• Where the market is asking for a product / update to a product

• When companies withdraw a product as customers don't like it

Technology push occurs when....

• When old technology is used in products

• When old technology is pushed off the market

• The market is asking for new technology

• New technology becomes available and a demand has to be created for it

Which of the following are techniques to increase company sales of existing products?

• Bringing out a new product

• Making minor changes to the function & aesthetics

• Selling more of the product and adding promotions to it

• Celebrity endorsements and bringing out new products

Which of the following areas would you consider if you were looking into aesthetics?

• Colour, psychology, texture, style

• Colour, shape, psychology, style

• Colour, shape, texture, psychology

• Colour, shape, texture, style

The three areas of ergonomics are......

• Physiology, Contrast & Anthropometrics

• Physiology, Psychology & Anthropometrics

• Physiology, Psychology & Aesthetics

• Products, Psychology & Anthropometrics

What is planned obsolescence?

• The amount of time before the product breaks

• The instructions to help you build a product

• When a product has a built in life expectancy

• When a product does not work and you need a replacement

How can companies make products safe for consumers to use?

• Make them from materials that are all soft

• Make products easy to understand and use safe materials during manufacture

• Bring in a sub-contractor to manufacture them

• Provide clear instructions on how to clean the product

What are the four stages of the product life cycle?

• Introduction, growth, maturity, decline

• Product, place, price, promotion

• Design, manufacture, consume, dispose

• Reduce, reuse, recycle, refuse