Steps in the design process for Home Economics.

1. The Design Process

2. THE DESIGN PROCESS. The processes used in the design brief will be: Technology Practice Actions and Interactions

3. Technology Practice.

4. Technology Practice Technology practice involves: investigation— this is carried out to gather knowledge, ideas and data to meet design challenges ideation — this is undertaken to generate and communicate ideas that meet design challenges, and to justify the selection of these ideas production— production procedures can be identified, described and managed when making products that meet design challenges evaluation— this is undertaken to make judgments about the appropriateness of design ideas, processes and products when meeting design challenges.

5. Empowerment practice.Empowerment practice is used to create change that will promote personal or collectivewellbeing.

6. Empowerment practice Empowerment practice involves: collecting, analysing and evaluating information setting goals identifying barriers and enablers to goals planning to achieve goals taking action to achieve goals reflecting on what has been learnt.

7. A SWOT analysis is an option we can use to determine all the areas that need consideration when analysing an idea or problem that needs solving.

8. SWOT Discovering SWOT Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

9. Planning for the design brief and your process journal. PLANNING What material(s) do I need to do my project? Where do I find the necessary material(s)? Who has information about my topic? Do I have to carry out my own experiments? Do I need to prepare, circulate and analyse a questionnaire or survey? Do I need to go to libraries other than the school library? Do I need to use the internet? If so, what key words will I need to use? What other resources in the community might help me?

10. The PROCESS JOURNAL Your process journal (this book) should have all your rough ideas, rough drawings, ideas you thought of with supervisors or other people, interviews you may have conducted, notes and reflections on the process itself (challenges, potential solutions), etc.

11. Your process journal is a practical workbook for your rough notes. It need not be neat, but should be honest and filled in regularly to show you how your project is developing. Your process journal will help you come to your final justification and evaluation of the project. If you run out of pages in this process journal, use another plain notebook for your second one. You should write in your journal every time you work on your project.

12. Process Journal What should you include in your process journal? all ideas you have, even if you don't end up using them a list of what you've done resources you've consulted notes from your research (including interviews) challenges and difficulties you have, including potential solutions and diagrams, charts, samples, sketches, photos, etc. an evaluation of your progress (are you achieving your goals?) areas that you need to improve upon lists of things to do information about your focus Area of Interaction and how you believe it is central to your topic research about the focus Area of Interaction to make the concepts clearer

13. Evaluate and Justify It is the written reflection that you do on your project It is a thorough reflection on both the process and product It includes much of what you recorded in your process journal

14. Your criteria sheet for your assessment can be used like a checklist to identify if your design process has been successful. Use this to identify and evaluate your final justification.