Design+Brief

= DESIGN BRIEF & DESIGN SPECIFICATION =

===The Design Brief is a short statement of **__what__** you are going to make, **__why__** you are going to make it, and for **__whom__** you are making it for. ===

It should be an open ended statement.
 For example; a clock project.  A good Design Brief might be something like this... "Teenagers have very busy lives. School, family and social activities mean that being punctual is very important.  I will design and make a wall clock that will be appealing for teenage girls. It will be a modern design and will be suitable for a teenage girl's bedroom. Because the design will appeal to teenage girls, them they will be more likely to look at it , read the time and therefore not be late.



A poor example would be something like this: **" I will make a football clock from plastic and print out pictures of players to use as the numbers."**



=DESIGN SPECIFICATION =

 The Design Specification is the most crucial element of the Investigate phase of the Design Cycle. A good **Design Specification** should include information that you learned about the task/problem from your research. It is a list of [|requirements] that your design ideas must meet plus a list of [|constraints] that you have. It is the check list that you need to use when you start to make your design ideas. <span style="color: #3139ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">