Product Design

Why choose Product Design?

Product Design enables students to design and make products with creativity and originality, using a range of materials and techniques. This creative and thought-provoking qualification gives students the practical skills, theoretical knowledge and confidence to succeed in a number of careers. Especially those in the creative industries.

This qualification focuses on developing practical skills within a particular material area, allowing students to manufacture high quality outcomes. They’ll learn about commercial processes and careers in related industries, as well as developing core transferable skills, such as collaboration and communication.

What will you learn?

This qualifications places greater emphasis on understanding and applying iterative design processes. Students will use their creativity and imagination to design and make prototypes that solve real and relevant problems, considering their own and others’ needs, wants and values.

They will investigate historical, social, cultural, environmental and economic influences on design and technology, whilst enjoying opportunities to put their learning in to practice by producing prototypes of their choice.

Students will gain a real understanding of what it means to be a designer, alongside the knowledge and skills sought by higher education and employers. “” In Product Design we apply what

we learnt in GCSE Maths, Science and Technology to make real products and understand how design affects our world.

Owen Product Design Student

Entry Requirement

Grade 6 or higher in the Design Technology GCSE. Students that have not studied Design Technology at GCSE and are considering Product Design please discuss with Mr McGinnity.

Exam Board and Syllabus

Product Design – AQA 7552-1

Unit 1: Two exam papers

Paper 1 30 % Paper 2 20% Unit 2 Design and Making 50%