VCE Product Design and Technologies (Year 11)
VCE Product Design and Technologies (Year 11) on VCE Vault: 8 lessons written for Year 11 (VCE, Victorian Certificate of Education), each with worked examples, practice questions and Aari, an AI tutor. The first 4 lessons are free; the whole subject is a one-off A$12.99.
Lessons
Unit 1 — Design Practices
- What Product Designers Do — Roles, Industry and Design Practice (free) — Describe how product designers work, who they work with, and how design practice moves from an idea to a manufactured product.
- Design Thinking and the Product Design Process (free) — Use design thinking and a structured design process to move from a need to a tested product.
- Materials, Tools, Processes and Workshop Safety (free) — Select materials by their properties and use tools and processes safely, including completing a risk assessment.
Design Skills
- Drawing for Design — Sketching, Working Drawings and CAD (free) — Communicate design ideas through sketches, annotated drawings, orthogonal working drawings and computer-aided design.
- Evaluating Products and Bridging to the Units 3–4 School-Assessed Task — Evaluate a product against criteria and understand how Units 1–2 skills lead into the Year 12 school-assessed task and examination.
Unit 2 — Positive Impacts for End Users
- Inclusive Design, Ergonomics and Anthropometrics — Apply inclusive design principles, ergonomics and anthropometric data to design products that suit a wide range of end users.
- Positive Impacts — Designing for Wellbeing, Culture and Sustainability — Explain how products can create positive impacts for end users and communities, including through culturally respectful and sustainable design.
- Prototyping and Testing With End Users — Build and test models and prototypes with end users, and use the results to improve a design.