20 Sep 2017

User-Centred Design Teachers Guide

A practical guide for teachers of Design & Technology

This guide is intended as an introduction to the teaching of UCD. It provides a set of signposts to resources to support you and your students.

  • Section 1 Introduction is an outline of UCD and its relevance to good design.
  • Section 2 UCD basics fleshes out the philosophy of UCD and the iterative design process at its centre.
  • Section 3 Teaching UCD deals with how to teach UCD and shows how it fits in with both new and existing D&T topics.
  • Section 4 Planning your teaching suggests a strategy for planning your teaching, and how to adapt some of your existing Schemes of Work so that they clearly include UCD elements.
  • Section 5 Further resources signposts further resources if you and your pupils want to delve more deeply into UCD.

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