Design a digital technologies outcome
AS92007 is a 5-credit external standard where you create a mini portfolio showing how you designed a digital technology outcome (like an app, website, or game). You don't build the thing — you design it. That means planning what it will look like and how it will work, getting feedback, improving your design, and then explaining why your final design is a good fit for its purpose. You also need to discuss manaakitanga or kaitiakitanga (caring for others / guardianship) in a genuine way through your design choices.
You show a clear design process: you identify a need, users, and requirements; you generate design ideas; and you produce a completed design with a description of how it meets the need. You may have collected feedback but don't clearly show how it led to improvements.
On top of Achieved, you use feedback to make at least two clear, visible improvements to your design, and you explain how specific design decisions improved the quality of your design. You go beyond just showing what changed — you explain why those changes matter.
On top of Merit, you justify how your completed design is fit for purpose by linking specific design decisions back to the requirements and context with detailed reasoning. You use concrete examples from your own work (not generic statements) and clearly show how choices throughout the whole design process contributed to a design that genuinely serves its users.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.