IGCSE portfolio Design and Technology

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This site is written to give you the best help for your project work. It will explain everything you need to include in your folder and project work. It will give you suggested projects and show examples of other pupils work. There will be links to the sites with the best information and summaries of all the facts you need to know to gain the best mark you can.

This site will have pages for the following areas for your folder work and practical work:

In your design folder

find a design problem

analise why its a problem

analise the needs of the problem

write a design brief

consider the human factors to your design problem

consider the environmental factors to your design solution

write a specification for the solution to your design problem

investigate, research, collect and record relevant information and data

generate a range of outlined solutions to your design problem

note the factors of time, cost, skill, and materials in your design solutions

evaluate your outline solutions by testing them yourself and with other people

Professional packaging design for a cordless phone

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In your product

plan the making of your product

select materials and tools appropriate to make your product

demonstrate appropriate skills to make the product showing an understanding of the characteristics of the materials

make the product

evaluate the methods and materials to make your product

evaluate function, quality, and looks.