Learning resources · 04.3
Design the products of the future. Use the design process, practical skills and design thinking to solve real problems.
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04.3Product Design
SubjectProduct Design
LevelsBGE → Advanced Higher
LicenceFree to copy, adapt, share
Sheet04.3
01Choose your level
Pick your level to find the lessons, videos and downloads for your course.
Level 1 · S1–S3
Broad General Education
Begin your journey with Product Design here: ideas, sketches and simple models.
Open BGE Product Design →
Level 2 · Senior phase
National 5 Design and Manufacture
Design and make a product, from the brief to a finished prototype.
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Level 3 · Senior phase
Higher Design and Manufacture
Develop designs further, with deeper research and more knowledge of materials and manufacture.
Coming soon
Level 4 · Senior phase
Advanced Higher Design and Manufacture
Run your own design project from research to final prototype.
Coming soon
02What you’ll learn
Product Design takes an idea from a rough sketch to a working prototype.
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Research, specification, ideas, development and evaluation.
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Explore ideas quickly on paper, in card and in CAD.
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Test your design with 3D printing, laser cutting and models.
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Choose the materials and processes for making a real product.
03Keep exploring
Every subject has free lessons, videos and downloads from BGE upwards.
04.1
Everybody uses graphics. Learn CAD, engineering drawing, rendering and animation, through to graphic design, vector art and print.
Explore Graphics →
04.2
Every good designer should know what it is like to make something. Learn the materials, tools and professional techniques that turn them into products.
Explore Craft →
04.4
Discover how things actually work. Mechanisms, structures, electronics, pneumatics and computer control – and how to think like an engineer.
Explore Engineering →