Situation, brief and initial analysis of both.
History of radio styles and technology.
Initial Plan of Action.
Research into existing products. (This should be extremely detailed and may even
stretch to 1 radio per page.
Approx
4 radios should be researched and analysed in detail)
Research into the area that you are designing for. E.g., a promotional radio for
a diving shop would necessitate
researching
into diving equipment and lifestyle etc. (up to 3 sheets)
Analysis of research. Fine tuning the research and explaining the parts that you
will use in your radio.
Questionnaire or interview stage. Whichever one is more suited to your project.
Specification of what you have found from your detailed analysis. (Aesthetics,
Safety, Processes, Scale of
production,
performance requirements, Quality control, Time Resources and Cost Constraints.
Conclusions found from all the research so far.
Planning for Design
Initial sketching, idea generation.
Idea developments. May also include construction sketches and ProDesktop
sketching.
Several concrete design ideas with detailed information that relate to your
specification. This should be
sketching,
ProD and an analysis of whether the design is meeting your specification.
Button investigation and designs. This may include photos of any prototype
buttons that you have made.
Once you have justified which of your designs you are going to pick for your
final design you must then create a
design
proposal to indicate steps you are going to take to produce your professional
prototype.
Material research, manufacturing research and any sketches to explain how you
are going to produce your
radio.
This should be ProD and hand drawn sketching. There should be 2 different parts
to this manufacturing
research.
One part is to be carried out in relation to the professional prototype that you
are making and the
other
part should be based around how your design would be manufactured if it was to
be mass produced
e.g.,
manufacturing processes, tooling costs, time to manufacture etc.
A final conclusion to your materials research and an indication of which
processes you will use.
Ergonomics. This should be all about the relationship that your design takes to
the size of the user and its
proposed
purpose.
At this point you should have some pictures of models/prototypes etc to show
you’re planning for the real thing.
Orthographic projection of your final radio design and any other technical
drawings that will help someone to
reproduce
your radio design.
Construction details, exploded views etc. on 2D Design and ProDesktop.
Manufacture time planner.
Costings of your design.
Quality control, how are you ensuring quality making throughout the project.
Information and photos of your design stages and how you are constructing the
final professional prototype.
Design Changes for Large Scale Production.
Mark Your Product against your specification.
Information and Photos of your product being used in situe.
Evaluation of the finished product.
