Design and Technology (Product Design)

Course summary

Product Design offers students the opportunity to study, propose, develop and realise prototype solutions to various designing and making situations, closely related to the real world of product design and manufacture. Students will analyse different products' functions, operations, components and materials. Students will also need to consider the wider issues affecting the design decisions behind commercial products. Students will take on the role of a designer. They will build up awareness and understanding of all the issues to be considered in the planning, design, manufacture and marketing of products. They will carry out critical evaluations of existing products, explore possible design developments and create functioning prototypes. Students will be encouraged to produce high-quality products that could be seen in a given consumer market.