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Product Design & Technology

Product design is a response to changing needs and to improve quality of life by designing creative, innovative and sustainable products. Product design is enhanced through knowledge of social, technological, economic, historical, ethical, legal, environmental and cultural factors. These factors influence the aesthetics, form and function of products. Central to VCE Product Design and Technology is design thinking, which is applied through the product design process providing a structure for creative problem solving.
This study enables students to: 
• use design thinking and develop their understanding of product development and how these occur in a variety of contexts and environments
• apply design practice by generating and communicating multiple creative ideas, concepts and product design options using a range of techniques to develop viable solutions to problems 
• explore and determine characteristics and properties of materials that make them suitable for use.
• examine methods of sourcing, processing, producing and assembling materials and social, economic, ethical, legal and environmental implications 
• use risk assessment to apply appropriate, efficient and safe methods of working with materials, tools, equipment and machines 
• apply project management techniques of time and sequence, and choose appropriate processes 
• analyse and evaluate the appropriateness of production activities and product design 
• understand sustainability and the responsibility the designer has to address social, environmental and economic considerations when designing and creating for the needs of the broader community.

Product design is a response to changing needs and to improve quality of life by designing creative, innovative and sustainable products. Product design is enhanced through knowledge of social, technological, economic, historical, ethical, legal, env... Show More