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Pumpkin Interactive produce high quality educational resources for secondary schools and colleges. Our DVD resources are tailor-made to meet the requirements of all the UK’s main awarding bodies.

In fact many of our teaching resources are now either endorsed or recommended by all the major exam boards, including OCR, Edexcel, AQA and WJEC. We produce all our own educational resources, using our teams of subject specialist producers, researchers, consultants and advisers.

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Pumpkin Interactive specialise in producing high quality, specification-relevant Design and Technology DVDs for secondary schools and colleges. We provide resources for Product Design, Resistant Materials, Graphics and Textiles courses and cover some of the hottest topics in D&T - the 6Rs, smart materials, and sustainability.

All our teaching resources are developed with the help of expert Design and Technology teacher consultants. We work closely with subject associations like the Design and Technology Association and with awarding bodies. In fact many of our D&T titles are now either endorsedor recommended by all the major UK exam boards, including AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC.

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Designing for the User

DVD: PAL
DUR: 32 mins
YEAR: 2010 / KS 3-5
Product Code: USER
Price: £45.00

Learn how to create products that meet user need and are inclusive. Designers explain how they: research their market; consider the values and needs of their users and work with ergonomic and anthropometric data. The resource also explores how designers are responding to the challenges of demographic change and inclusive design. It provides examples relevant for resistant materials, product design and graphics courses.


Recommendations/Endorsements


Endorsed by Edexcel for use with their GCE in Design and Technology: Product Design

Recommended by AQA in their resources list for their GCSE and GCE D&T specifications


Testimonials

“Excellent examples of how designers research and understand their end users needs. This well help A2 students who are studying end users requirements during their Unit 4 Product Design coursework research."

Malcolm Cross,
Head of D&T, Peter Symonds School, the largest centre teaching AQA A level Product Design

Designing for the User: Inclusive Design shows very clearly the value of the investigation stage of product development and should help teachers to reinforce the idea that primary investigations and user trials have far more value than collecting images off websites or copying data from books.  The case study of designing a phone onto a banana is a lesson to us all about how to make this a fun and practical stage of the work. 

Brian Russell, Director for D&T, Dixons City Academy

Suggested exam board specification links

AQA

    
GCSE D&T Resistant Materials
GCSE   D&T Graphic Products
GCSE   D&T Product Design
GCE D&T Product Design, A2 Unit 4
     

Edexcel

    
GCE D&T  Product Design
     

WJEC

    
GCSE D&T  Resistant Materials
GCSE D&T Graphic Products
GCSE D&T Product Design
GCE D&T Product Design

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