Design Requirement Examples

The design requirements for your project will differ from those of anyone else, because yours will apply to your specific problem statement and the product,
system, or experience that you are designing. In the table are a few examples of design requirements. Your requirements will be more specific and directly
related to meeting the needs of your project's users.

If you are designing a baseball bat, your design requirements might be that the bat needs to be:

• Less than 1.5 pounds.

• Made out of a material approved by the league.
• Able to hit a baseball without breaking.

If you are designing a better form of transportation for students to get to school, your design requirements might be that the transportation needs to be:

• Free for students.

• Quick: less than one hour round-trip.
• Safe.

If you are designing a website for teachers to post homework assignments online, your design requirements might be that the website needs to:

• Allow teachers to upload documents.

• Provide a login for teachers.
• Be accessible from schools and teachers' homes.

To help you consider possibilities, here are several tables listing different types of design requirements. It would be rare if all the ones important to you were
here; it would be equally rare (but still possible) that none of yours are here. Remember that all of your requirements should be needed and feasible.

Types of Design Requirement for General Products

 Types of Design Requirement for General Products

A cost target is almost always a design requirement Aesthetics (how it looks)

• Cost to purchase • Style (art deco, Victorian, modern, medieval)

• Cost to use • Color
• Cost to repair • Fit and finish (Is it built with care and attention
to detail?)

Geometry
Capacity (how many and how big are the things it can
• Size, overall dimensions
work with)
• Curvature

Physical characteristics Performance characteristics

• Weight • Accuracy
• Density • Strength
• Melting, boiling point • Reproducibility, repeatability (Does it always
• Color do the same thing given the same input?)
• Transparency • Speed
• Reflectance • Acceleration
• Surface texture (polished, rough) • Deceleration, braking
• Elasticity • Rolling resistance
• Hardness • Friction
• Ductility (ability to be drawn into a wire) • Adhesion
 Types of Design Requirement for General Products

• Magnetic properties • Absorbency

• Electrical properties (resistance, impedance, etc.) • Permeability (Do things leak through it?)
• Impact resistance • Resolution
• Bending strength • Flammability (ability to set on fire)
• Viscosity (the thickness and stickiness of a fluid) • Insulation value

Outputs
Inputs
• Product produced
• Energy consumption
• Power
• Fuel consumption
• Pollution
• Labor
• Undesirable side effects ___________

Manufacturing considerations Environmental requirements

• Difficulty of making • Operating temperature range

• Equipment or manufacturing techniques required to build the invention • Storage temperature range
(You don't want to build something from metal if all you have is a • Water resistance
woodworking shop.) • Resistance to corrosion
• Number of component parts • Compatibility with ___________
• Labor requirements • Ability to withstand radiation (called radiation
• Means of shipping or delivery hardness)
 Types of Design Requirement for General Products

User requirements Regulatory & licensing considerations

• Ease of use • Meets government rules

• Ease of learning • Meets league rules (a sporting product)
• Operator training • Does it require paying a patent or license fee?

How does it hold up?

Acoustic characteristics
• Service requirements
• Ease of repair • Pitch
• Reliability • Sound transmission
• Lifespan • Resonance
• Disposability

Every product area has some of its own requirements; these are just a few types:

Clothing
Aircraft and Rockets
• Comfort, wearability
• Lift
• Fabric
• Drag
• How to clean (dry clean or throw it in the wash)
 • Iron or permanent press • Thrust

Food Products
Genetically Engineered Bacteria
• Taste
• Gene to be added or deleted
• Nutrition value
• Means of controlling gene expression
• Perishability (how and how long can it be stored)

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