Design & Tech - For Education

This app will provide you with curriculum content for Design & Technology across age range: ‘ages 14-18’.

Visually stunning, this single app covers all these topic areas:

-Manufacturing Plastic Products
Scales of production, vacuum forming, blow moulding, injection moulding, extrusion, line bending, plug and yoke press forming

-Mechanisms & Structures
Mechanisms 1, mechanisms 2, mechanisms 3, structures 1, structures 2

-Product Design & Flat-pack Furniture
Advantages of flat-pack furniture, ergonomic considerations, manufactured boards used in flat-pack furniture, knockdown fittings, hinges and screws, photos

-Properties of Materials
Introduction to materials and their physical properties, mechanical properties of materials, properties of timber products, properties of metal products, properties of plastic products

-Resistant & Compliant Materials
Woods, metals, plastics, compliant materials

-Systems and Control
Systems, electronics, pneumatics, mechanisms 1, mechanisms 2, mechanisms 3, products and applications, quality and production, health and safety

-Textiles - Fibres & Fabrics
The origin of fibres, fibres to fabrics, properties of fibres and fabrics, adding finishing touches to fibres and fabrics, new technologies in fibres, yarns and fabrics

-Textiles - Style Techniques & Construction Processes
Introduction to design, style details, construction processes - seams, pockets and fastenings, decorative motifs and edgings



The App uses high quality 3D animation, video, imagery, professional voice-overs, text and interactive activities with high score functions to ensure effective learning of relevant curriculum topics. Superb for class or independent learning and revision both in school and at home, delivering an engaging interactive learning experience.

Thanks to a user-friendly interface, navigation through the content is made easy and intuitive, including swipe gestures, scrolls and expandable menus.

Each section is completed with activities (fill in the blanks and quizzes) to reinforce learning.

You can easily take a test on any topic, and know which ones you haven't been tested on yet, or redo the ones you haven't scored 100% on yet. You can even compare your scores with other users through the game center, highlighting performance on each topic, age range or whole subject.