Technology Vocabulary Introduction

The visual appearance and beauty of an object

• Aesthetics

• Collaboration

• Creativity

• Features

multiple people working together for the same goal

• Aesthetics

• Collaboration

• Design

• Community

the person who purchases or uses the product

• Consumer

• Consumption

• Collective

• Community

Taking a interesting thought and/or idea and turning it into reality

• Creativity

• Consumption

• Function

• Design

Steps to identify, plan, research, test, evaluate and make a solution to the problem

• Creativity

• Consumption

• Aesthetic

• Design

to compare something to a set of standards

• Evaluate

• Analyse

• Discuss

• Identify

the purpose of a product

• to function

• to innovative

• to inspire

• to rotate

Using new methods, materials and technologies to solve problems

• innovative

• transformative

• aesthetic

• materialistic

to copy another person's ideas, thoughts, images or material as your own

• Copying

• Plagiarism

• Collaborative

• Stealing

A small scale model of the product

• Prototype

• Minature

• Function

• Design process