By the end of this topic, you should be able to...
discuss how standards can help designers ensure the well-being, health and safety of users when using their products.
Guiding Question
How do designers understand the relationship between users, the product and the environment?
Linking Questions
How does the classification and properties of the materials affect the designer’s ability to meet their responsibilities to minimize negative impacts on the communities they design for? (A3.1)
What are the key considerations of ensuring products can be used safely when designing them to include mechanical and electronic systems? (A3.3, A3.4, B3.3, B3.4)
To what extent are there differences between the responsibility of the designer and the responsibility of the design student as they engage with the design process? (B2.1)
How does the designer mitigate the impact of social, style, functional and technological obsolescence when using a design for sustainability strategy? (C2.1)
How do designers ensure they design out obsolescence when working with a design for a circular economy strategy? (C2.2)
To what extent is it the responsibility of the designer to ensure that the outcome of the life-cycle analysis for their product is relatively positive? (C3.2)