1. Evaluating Your Creative Product
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2. This lesson will cover:
How to test your product effectively.
How reviewing and testing a product improves it.
Why it is important to evaluate your work
and performance.
Functional Skills: This presentation covers the following Functional Skills standard: Develop, Present and Communicate Level – review and modify work as it progresses to ensure the result is fit for purpose and audience, and to inform future judgements.

3. The importance of reviewing
Why is it important to have other people review your work?
In order to gain feedback on what to improve.
To find out whether your product is fit for purpose and appealing to your target audience.
Because you may be inspired by new suggestions.
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4. Finishing touches

5. How can you test your product?

6. Spelling and grammar checks
Functional Skills: This slide covers the following Functional Skills standard: Develop, Present and Communicate Information Level – work accurately and proofread, using software facilities where appropriate for the task.

7. How can users test your product?
Usability testing shows you how real users will use
your product.
You should ask users to do typical tasks with the product, watch what they do and ask them their thoughts.
In a usability test, you want to know:
How the product performed. Did everything work?
How long it took to complete the tasks. Did it take too long?
How the product makes the user feel. Were they bored or annoyed? Would they recommend it?
Teacher’s Note: Usability testing means deciding whether a product is fit for purpose by testing it on users.
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8. Does it meet the audience’s needs?
When the project is nearing completion, it is useful to gather a focus group to give feedback on your product. This should be a group of people from your target audience.
You should give them clear instructions about what you would like them to do. They should then explore your product, answering a questionnaire.
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This feedback will help you to schedule any changes you need to make, and work out when the product will be completed.

9. Have you met your objectives?

10. Evaluating
Be critical of yourself. You will gain more from the task if you ask other people for their opinion of what you have done.
Note down things that went well and not so well. You can learn from these experiences, and this can improve your efficiency the next time you embark on a project.
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