Evaluation

The key to any successful evaluation is to make judgments about the originality and value of the ideas and solutions. By using a range of evaluation tools or strategies, you can evaluate your design ideas and products by comparing them against original design criteria and by suggesting improvements, to further their development.

Evaluation using **ACCESS FM** developed by Bluefish
 * Evaluation Tools**:


 * Objective:** To examine, describe and evaluate similar products to gain useful technical information

Analise your product, and evaluate against your specifications and the criteria using the acronym ACCESS FM
 * A**esthetics
 * C**ost
 * C**ustomer
 * E**nvironment
 * S**afety
 * S**ize
 * F**unction
 * M**aterials[[image:draw4.jpg width="281" height="192" align="right"]]

Consider features such as:
 * Easy to use
 * Colourful
 * Cost
 * Works well
 * Strong
 * Safe
 * Looks and feels good

To help with your evaluation you can __adapt__ the following sentences and changing some of the words which are in **red** or filling in the gaps.


 * 1) The materials that I used to make my mechanical toy from are pine, dowel and mdf, they were suitable because the pine and mdf were easy to saw and shape and the dowels were already cut to the right diameter.
 * 2) I designed my mechanical toy for my **husband**, you can tell this because I made it to the theme of **jukeboxes** which my **husband collects**.
 * 3) The skills that I have learnt or improved during this project are --. I used these skills to.
 * 4) I think the looks or aesthetics of the final mechanical toy are --- because ---.
 * 5) Whilst making the mechanical toy I had a couple of problems, these were -.
 * 6) I made some alterations to my original design, these were - because.
 * 7) The part of the project that went really well for me was  I think this was because.
 * 8) I think my **husband** will like the finished mechanical toy because -.