What Is Design? The Design Process & Design Procedures
What Is Design? The Design Process & Design Procedures is one of 9 topics in the Grade 10 Design CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
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1. Design is best described as what kind of human activity?
A creative, intellectual, problem-solving activity
A purely instinctive activity requiring no thought
An activity that only machines can perform
An activity unrelated to purpose or aesthetics
Answer: A creative, intellectual, problem-solving activity — Design is a creative and intellectual problem-solving activity: creative because it generates new ideas, and intellectual because it requires research, reasoning and decision-making.
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2. Which of the following can a design result in, according to the Grade 10 definition of design?
Environments, systems, services or products
Only physical products, never services
Only digital systems
Only hand-crafted objects
Answer: Environments, systems, services or products — Design can result in a wide range of outcomes, including environments, systems, services and products, not only physical objects.
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3. Name the term for a design made individually by a single maker using traditional skills, as opposed to one made by machinery in large quantities.
Answer: hand-crafted — A design may be unique and hand-crafted, made individually using traditional skills, or mass-produced by mechanical or electronic means, made in large identical quantities.
