Appearance
Define the character, form, materials, colors, surface details and brand elements.
Drawing and tracing
Interactive Tracing Pad
A creative-play platform ready for custom controls, content and casing.
Reference images show a starting point. Shape, materials, color, functions and packaging can be developed around your brief.
Product views
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Manufacturing reference
What this reference shows, and what you would decide.
A plain writing panel with a card slot at the top and four labelled controls.
Keeping the shell rectangular and the character out of it makes the card the interchangeable part. That is a different business model to a moulded character: the hardware is neutral and the content is what you sell again. Four buttons with printed symbols instead of words is a deliberate choice that removes a translation step from every market. The slot depth and card thickness have to be fixed together.
This is the reference for a brief where the range grows through card packs rather than through new moulds. Settle the card size and board weight first, then how many cards ship in the box, and decide whether the buttons stay symbol only in every market you sell in.
Decisions this product type puts in front of you
- The drawing surface A writing panel, a wipe clean board and a printed sheet behave differently under a child and cost differently to replace. Decide the surface, then decide whether the stylus is tethered, stored in the body or sold separately.
- Content and templates Cards, sheets or discs are the reason the product is used twice. Agree the starting set, the artwork owner and how a refill pack is bought, because a creative toy without refills is used once.
- Controls Keep the button count to what a child of the target age can learn in one sitting. Every extra control is a moulded part, a contact and a line test, and it makes the pack copy harder to write.
- Power and durability These products are used flat on a table and dropped off it. Decide the cell type, the battery door fixing and the corner radius together, and say how the product behaves when the battery is low.
- Packaging The stylus, the sheets and the refills all have to be presented and held. Plan the tray, the retail hook and the language of the instructions at the same time as the product.
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- The drawing or tracing surface you want and the panel size.
- How many templates or cards ship in the box, and who owns the artwork.
- The control list, and whether audio or light are part of it.
- Destination markets and the age grade you intend to print.
- Quantity and whether refill packs are sold separately.
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Custom development
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Functions
Select the interactions, audio, light, movement, controls and power system your product needs.
Presentation
Plan labels, instructions, packaging, carton configuration and market requirements together.
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