Relevant Research

Customer Survey
1. Size
2. Cost
3. Function
4. Use
5. Location
6. Materials
7. Environment (eco)
Materials
1. What the customer likes
2. Existing products
3. Materials in the customers price range
4. Recycled
5. Sustainable
Finishes
1. Customer likes
2. Existing products
3. Eco friendly
4. Other possibilities
Joints and processes
1. Existing products
2. Customer likes
3. Potential solutions
4. Appropiate
Adhesives
1. Existing products
2. Appropiate for specific materilas
3. Potential alternatives (eco?)
Ergonomic Data/Considerations
1. What key sizes do you need to know to design your product?
2. What part of the user will interact with the product?
Anthropometric Data
1. What data do you need on the customer / user to design your product?
Technical information/data of Components/Fastenings
1. What construction method are you going to use? Does it have technical information: eg. CAM and Dowel systems to flatpack assembly.
Sizes from Functional Considerations
1. What does the product need to be to be successful?
2. How big / small does it need to be?
3. What does the customer want it to do?
4. What do existing products do?
Environmental Considerations: Location
1. Where will the customer use the product?
2. Will it be used in multiple locations?
3. Protection from the environment
Environmental Considerations: 6 R’s of Sustainability
1. RETHINK - our current lifestyles and the way we design and make.
  1. Could you design it / make it in a more sustainable way?
  2. What does your customer want?
2. REFUSE - to buy materials and products that are unsustainable.
  1. What materials will you use to ensure the product is ECO and sustainable?
3. REDUCE - the amount of energy and materials used to manufacture a product.
  1. Can you reduce the material / transport / manufacture labour / carbon footprint of your design?
4. REUSE - the product for something else so you don't need to throw it away.
  1. Can you design the product to be useful at the end of its life?
5. REPAIR - the product so you don't need to throw it away.
  1. Can you make the design easy for the customer to repair?
6. RECYCLE - finally take the product apart and categorise the parts ready for being converted into another product. This uses a lot of energy.
  1. At the end of its life, can the product be easley recycled?
Safety
1. Customer safety
2. User safety
3. Law; British Standards
4. Safe for the environment

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	Created by Mike Stokes about 9 years ago