AQA GCSE Design and Technology -
Product Design 2024/2025 Exam
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Why does product evolution occur? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Continuous
improvement
> Market pull
> Technology push
> Social/cultural needs
> Political/environmental needs
What is market pull? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Designing to satisfy the needs and
wants of customers - costumer demand
> Changing fashions and social attitudes affect what people want and it
isn't always the same
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,Give an example of market pull - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A car is designed to get
you from A to B but they have become a status symbol and luxury extras
such as seat-back TV screens are added
What is technology push? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Research and development
leads to new technologies, materials and manufacturing techniques
> New technology can make a product cheaper, perform its function better
or be nicer-looking
Give an example of technology push - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Computers started
as a hude 'adding machines' but now microchips allow for small, fast and
powerful machienes
What is continuous improvement? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Manufactures want
to make more money, increase profit
> They improve the design do they can be made more easily 'continuous
improvement'
> They make them as good as possible to make money, be competitive
and meet standards of product quality
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,What alternative reasons can a product evolve for? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Social or cultural needs (For example, wind-up radios for Africans so they
could listen to educational broadcasts about health concerns)
> Political or environmental needs (For example, the need for
environmentally friendly products such as hybrid engine cars that are more
efficient)
Name the features of the Arts and Crafts movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Founded by William Morris
> Bases on patterns found in nature
> Upright and angular
> Made by made and skilled craftsmen
Name the features of the Art Nouveau movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Designers include Louis C.Tiffany
> Flowing and curvy designs
> They use floral or insect motifs
Name the features of the Art Deco movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Inspired
by African and Egyptian art
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, > Bold colours, zigzag and stepped shapes, bold sweeping curves and the
sunset motif
> Example is the Chrysler building in New York
Name the features of the Bauhaus movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Movement from Germany
> Has the motto 'form follows function'
> Function is most important and appearance is second
> It is futuristic, simplistic and used mass production methods
> Uses chrome tubing and black leather
Name the features of the De Stijl movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Dutch
modernist movemnt
> Basic - uses simple shapes, horizontal and vertical lines
> The three primary colous only
> Well known example is Gerrit Rietveld's Red and Blue chair
Name the features of the postmodernism movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Rejected 'form follows function'
> Put style as the focus point of design
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Product Design 2024/2025 Exam
Questions and Verified Answers |
Already Graded A+
Why does product evolution occur? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Continuous
improvement
> Market pull
> Technology push
> Social/cultural needs
> Political/environmental needs
What is market pull? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Designing to satisfy the needs and
wants of customers - costumer demand
> Changing fashions and social attitudes affect what people want and it
isn't always the same
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Give an example of market pull - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A car is designed to get
you from A to B but they have become a status symbol and luxury extras
such as seat-back TV screens are added
What is technology push? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Research and development
leads to new technologies, materials and manufacturing techniques
> New technology can make a product cheaper, perform its function better
or be nicer-looking
Give an example of technology push - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Computers started
as a hude 'adding machines' but now microchips allow for small, fast and
powerful machienes
What is continuous improvement? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Manufactures want
to make more money, increase profit
> They improve the design do they can be made more easily 'continuous
improvement'
> They make them as good as possible to make money, be competitive
and meet standards of product quality
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,What alternative reasons can a product evolve for? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Social or cultural needs (For example, wind-up radios for Africans so they
could listen to educational broadcasts about health concerns)
> Political or environmental needs (For example, the need for
environmentally friendly products such as hybrid engine cars that are more
efficient)
Name the features of the Arts and Crafts movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Founded by William Morris
> Bases on patterns found in nature
> Upright and angular
> Made by made and skilled craftsmen
Name the features of the Art Nouveau movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Designers include Louis C.Tiffany
> Flowing and curvy designs
> They use floral or insect motifs
Name the features of the Art Deco movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Inspired
by African and Egyptian art
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, > Bold colours, zigzag and stepped shapes, bold sweeping curves and the
sunset motif
> Example is the Chrysler building in New York
Name the features of the Bauhaus movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Movement from Germany
> Has the motto 'form follows function'
> Function is most important and appearance is second
> It is futuristic, simplistic and used mass production methods
> Uses chrome tubing and black leather
Name the features of the De Stijl movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔> Dutch
modernist movemnt
> Basic - uses simple shapes, horizontal and vertical lines
> The three primary colous only
> Well known example is Gerrit Rietveld's Red and Blue chair
Name the features of the postmodernism movement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔>
Rejected 'form follows function'
> Put style as the focus point of design
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