M4-5+Website+Investigate

toc =**INVESTIGATE: DUE Friday 25th 8:30am** = = Product Research: =

What makes a good website?
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'Good' and 'not good' websites
Find 5 examples of good and 5 examples of not good websites to add to your wiki. Use the list you created as a class to help you decide if the website is 'good' or 'not good'.

Websites to explore
Have a look at these links:
 * school websites
 * professional designers' websites
 * This University of Leeds website committed to saving energy


 * Guiding Questions **
 * Write the answers to each of the questions to help you organise your research phase. **

// Is there anything you need to find out how to do? What research will you need to carry out? //
 * What do I need to know before I can begin to design a solution to the challenge? **

// Where can you find information to help you? Will you use books/websites/experts/surveys? //
 * What are some sources of information? Who/what can help me? Where can I find these? **

// Who is interested by and / or affected by the challenge? Who is the client? The users? //
 * Who are the stakeholders in the challenge? **

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=** Overview **= Write a paragraph to summarise:
 * 1) what product you will create
 * 2) why you will create it
 * 3) who it is aimed at

For example a good design brief might look 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.

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=** Assessment Criteria **= Here are the assessment criteria for investigate. Make sure have completed all the steps in order to get a six.



=** Sources **= Here are two websites that help you write your sources correctly. Easy bib and Bibme.

=** Group Design Specification **= Here is our combined group specification. Add your points to it. Once everyone has completed their points we need to edit it to create one final specification which we will use to test our designs against. media type="custom" key="11307948"

Ask 3 people if they think the website is messy, or complicated.

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