The investigation and analysis of existing products in the market place. By observing and comparing a variety of products that relate to you brief, you can make judgements on good and poor design that may impact on you own solution.

Many and varied ‘rough’ sketches of concepts that have the potential to solve your brief. The sketches must be annotated and will therefore offer information that goes beyond your drawing ability.

Must show a range of diverse ideas.

Focusing on one of your 'initial ideas' (the one with the most potential), develop in detail your proposed solution. Details should include ergonomic factors, dimensions, suggestion of materials to be used and a mention and illustration of methods of fabrication.

This should include a clear (dimensioned) orthographic drawing of your developed idea to a specific scale and if necessary, a sectional view through the object. Included should be a ‘presentation’ drawing either conventionally drawn and rendered or drawn using ‘ProDesktop’ or Google Sketchup.’

This should not be seen in isolation. Evidence of evaluation should be present throughout every area of your design folio (this is called 'formative evaluation'.) However, a final ‘summative’ testing of your product is also required. These problem solving decisions and alterations should be documented in detail.

Develop a chart (using Excel) using an X axis representing a time line and a Y axis that represents the tasks to be undertaken. The schedule must be closely adhered to, in order to meet your deadlines.

Indentify some Vocabulary that you might need to refer to in your project.