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Two fresh public formative design checksYear 11 Design · T1 W1–2 · Learner checks

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These learner files and the teacher key are publicly accessible. They are fresh relative to Days 1–4 and 6–9 briefs, not secure assessments or QCAA/school instruments. If you have already read a worked response, tell your teacher so they can supply a new local case. No actual stakeholder interview, client, venue or user test is represented. A neutral read-aloud, large print, full-word tiles, tactile layout or digital drawing is fine. A speech/AAC answer can carry annotations; a spatial prompt still needs a labelled layout.

File G · Paper Path

An invented weekend paper-craft fair has three activity stations: Fold, Print and Trade. Its existing handout shows only a circle, square and triangle, with no legend. A scripted organiser says, “One visitor asked what the triangle meant.” This is a line in a fictional brief, not a real interview or a measured pattern. The exercise permits two A4 sheets, black-and-white print, and no change to where the three stations stand. The actual room dimensions, users' interpretations and effectiveness of any new handout are unknown.

  1. Name the stated source for the reported difficulty. Explain why “most visitors were confused” would overclaim.
  2. Write one bounded design problem naming the reader, the present handout, the intended function and two brief constraints.
  3. Write two criteria someone could inspect on a proposed paper handout without testing real visitors. At least one must remove dependence on shape alone.
  4. Name one question for a future consented user check. State one claim you still could not make from this fictional brief.

File H · Studio Swap

A fictional pop-up swap studio offers Books and Art prints. In the invented room plan the entrance is at the bottom, check-in is in the centre, Books is left and Art prints is right. People go through check-in before choosing a table. The current mock handout labels the tables “B” and “P” with no full-word key. A scripted volunteer says, “Readers ask what B and P mean.” This is invented prompt text, not real feedback. The concept must fit one A4 greyscale page, name both tables in full words, show check-in before either table, and preserve left/right positions. Door widths, crowd flow and users' experience are unknown.

  1. State a design problem naming a stakeholder, present limitation, intended function and at least two constraints.
  2. Make two labelled spatial low-fidelity ideas that differ in a meaningful information feature, such as full words inside the room boxes versus full-word legend plus numbered route. Both must preserve the stated location/order. Explain the difference in one sentence.
  3. Write two checkable criteria, choose one idea and show one visible revision against a criterion. Annotate why that change could help, using the fictional brief rather than invented feedback.
  4. Name an outcome you cannot claim yet and the evidence you would need before claiming it.