Product Design

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Product Design

• Lesson objective to be able to identify key
  reasons why products have evolved over time

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Questions

1. Why do you think designers improve products?
2. If I said continuous improvement would you know
   what this means?
3. Can you name several factors that have helped to
   improve products?

Lesson objective - to be able to identify key
reasons why products have evolved over time
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Years of development and innovation has
culminated in the modern world we know as today

1. Manufacturing has improved
2. Selection of materials
3. The way society has changed and the market need
   for goods has determined the changes

Lesson objective - to be able to identify key
reasons why products have evolved over time
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Task 1 write up notes One off prototype

• A full size see-saw prototype. Creating a one-off
  prototype can speed up the design process and
  avoid pitfalls later in production.

1100 scale car patterns ready for casting
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Task 2 find out what this means - Bespoke
Somerset Furniture Designer Penny Price offers a
bespoke furniture design service throughout the
Somerset area, below is an example of some of the
bespoke furniture made by Penny Price.
bespoke bespoken tailor-made made-to-order
tailored
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Task 3 write down notes from this slide - Batch
production

• Sometimes batch production is necessary when a
  manufacturer is producing similar things, but
  with variants.
• For instance, if you manufacture two colours of
  the same shoe, you probably use batch production.
  
• Any dyeing of leather or fabric cant apply to
  the whole set of shoes you want to manufacture,
  since theyre different colours.
• This can mean stopping in between each batch to
  change or clean machines, or prepare to add new
  dyes for the next variation.

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Improving our standard of living

• Manufacturing has created a mass-production
  market
• What do you think mass production means?

Lesson objective - to be able to identify key
reasons why products have evolved over time
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mass-production market task 4 write down notes
The production of large quantities of a
standardized article (often using assembly line
techniques)
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Write this down - Developments in technology have
affected materials and manufacturing. New
materials have been produced, and the way we make
products has changed

• Social factors have an impact on the products we
  use
• Products for a greener future are also being
  developed because of market demand

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People demand continuous improvement
The fourth generation monochrome iPod-July 2004 -
June 2005
The first generation iPod mini-January 2004 -
February 2005
Lesson objective - to be able to identify key
reasons why products have evolved over time
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Task 5 - Now research on the Internet products
that have improved over many years due to market
demand

• Task 6
• What does market push means?
• What does market demand mean?
• What does supply and demand mean?
• What are standard components, find out?
• What is a continuous production line?
• what does Commercial Viability mean?
• what is a Product launch?