http://studentlifeatdisk.weebly.com/ http://www.dia.doshisha.ac.jp/disk/ As an MYP interested school we are introducing MYP-style Technology classes. This video was produced to help "flip" our classroom. Students can view this (or the YouTube or Vimeo versions) elsewhere in order to spend more time in class actually creating, collaborating and working in an environment with other learners with access to a knowledgeable"expert".

1. THE DESIGN CYCLE @DISK
Things to consider at every stage in the
Design Cycle Booklet

2. BASICS

3. BASICS
Design is a process
We are more concerned with your ability to follow the Design
Cycle than your solutions or creations
While we often work collaboratively, everyone’s Design
Cycle Booklet will be assessed individually

4. PART A: INVESTIGATE

5. PART A: INVESTIGATE
1. State the problem
☞ After a discussion with the class write down the problem to be solved
in your own words

6. PART A: INVESTIGATE

7. PART A: INVESTIGATE
2. How is the problem significant in a wider context?
Consider who is affected
Find or make an example of a similar problem in the wider community
This could be:
☞ your neighbourhood
☞ city
☞ ward
☞ region
☞ country
☞ continent
☞ the world

8. PART A: INVESTIGATE

9. PART A: INVESTIGATE
Developing a Design Brief
1. What needs to be investigated?
☞ List all areas of research you need to undertake
☞ It is helpful to use scrap paper to brainstorm everything you know about the problem and define
areas that you need to research

10. PART A: INVESTIGATE

11. PART A: INVESTIGATE
Developing a Design Brief
2. What sources can you use for information?
Make a list:
☞ school library
☞ internet (Be specific, Google, Vimeo, YouTube are usable but NOT ALL THERE IS)
☞ interviews
speak with: your intended audience/users
experts
in person
through Skype
through surveys
in paper or online
write out your questions here

12. PART A: INVESTIGATE
Developing a Design Brief

13. PART A: INVESTIGATE
Developing a Design Brief
COLLECT YOUR
INFORMATION

14. PART A: INVESTIGATE

15. PART A: INVESTIGATE
Developing a Design Brief
4. What sources did you use for your information?
☞ Note them
☞ Where can someone reading your booklet find it for themselves (verify)?
5. How did you evaluate the information that you found?
☞ Was the source credible (believable)?
☞ How do you know?
☞ Could you get the same answer from more than one source?

16. PART A: INVESTIGATE

17. PART A: INVESTIGATE
Formulating a Design Specification
1. What requirements must your product/solution meet?
☞ Write as statements (must...)
☞ Number them
☞ Where can someone reading your booklet find it for themselves (verify)?

18. PART A: INVESTIGATE

19. PART A: INVESTIGATE
Formulating a Design Specification
2. Design tests to evaluate the success of the product/solution
☞ Use a variety of testing methods
☞ Tests you or your group conducts
☞ Video-taping the product/solution in action
☞ Interview/survey audience/those affected
☞ in person
☞ through surveys (in paper or online)
☞ Refer to the Design Specification
☞ Would this prove to someone else that you have succeeded?

20. PART B: DESIGN

21. PART B: DESIGN
Designing the Product/Solution
2. Assess designs of your product/solution
☞ Start off simply and get gradually more detailed
☞ Use pictures as well as detailed comments/labels as to the how’s
☞ These designs should explain to someone else how they could create
your product/solution
☞ Once completed one design, assess it in step 2
☞ This will help you improve it
☞ Refer to the Design Specification
☞ When working in collaborative groups the third design should be when everyone comes
together to combine their improved independent designs into a unified whole

22. PART B: DESIGN

23. PART B: DESIGN
Designing the Product/Solution
3. Choose your design
☞ Write a paragraph explaining why you have chosen this final design

24. PART C: PLAN
Planning the Product/Solution

25. PART C: PLAN
Planning the Product/Solution
1. What steps are needed to create the product/solution
according to your design?
☞ make a point form list of step headings

26. PART C: PLAN

27. PART C: PLAN
Planning the Product/Solution
2. Detailed planning
☞ Consider each step carefully
☞ Don’t forget resources and time
THIS IS IMPORTANT
☞ You will have to explain any changes
you make to this plan
3. Evaluate the plan

28. PART D: CREATE

29. PART D: CREATE
Using Appropriate Techniques & Equipment
1. Fill in the equipment table

30. PART D: CREATE

31. PART D: CREATE
Following the Plan
2. Track your progress following your plan
☞ Reflect on & justify changes made from your plan

32. PART E: EVALUATE

33. PART E: EVALUATE
Evaluating the Product/Solution
1. Use your tests from Part A to
assess your product/solution

34. PART E: EVALUATE

35. PART E: EVALUATE
Evaluating the Product/Solution
Answer the questions:
2. What impact will your product/solution have?
Who will be affected and how?
3. How could your product/solution be improved?

36. PART E: EVALUATE
Evaluating YOUR Use of the Design Cycle

37. PART E: EVALUATE
Evaluating YOUR Use of the Design Cycle
☞ THIS is where the serious reflection comes in. Use this final section to honestly think about your use
of the Design Cycle through the Booklet
☞ Take time for each section
☞ Look at the sections and read them carefully to refresh your memory
Celebrate the successes and plan to learn from the mistakes in the next unit!
WELL DONE

38. Image Credits
Sky background by malavoda@ http://www.flickr.com/photos/malavoda/2967081141/sizes/l/in/
photostream/
Soundtrack by FreePlay Music - Sure Victory .mp3: http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=790569&song=Sure
+Victory
The MYP Design Cycle: MYP Technology Guide
Earth: barretr@ http://openclipart.org/detail/3320/earth-by-barretr
Thinking boy outline: ryanlerch@ http://openclipart.org/detail/630/thinkingboy-outline-by-
ryanlerch
Designers: mairin http://openclipart.org/detail/81337/interaction-designers-by-mairin