Build
Digital Thinking Frames
A web app that opens each of nine thinking frames as an editable template, for a company that supports schools.
The situation
Thinking Matters supports schools with metacognition and thinking skills. Its Thinking Frames are diagrams that students use to define, describe, compare, sequence and categorise ideas. Teachers and students needed a way to open each frame on screen and fill it in.
What we did
We built Digital Thinking Frames, a web app with a tile for each of nine frames, from Defining and Describing to Cause and Effect and Making Connections. Choosing a tile opens that frame as an editable template in a free online diagram editor, with a matching set of shapes ready to use.
Several frames come in variants, such as sequencing across, down or in a cycle, or categorising into 2 to 5 branches. The app links to a quick start guide and to tutorial videos. Version 1.2 dates from January 2021.
In 2024 we were asked back twice: once when a change in the diagram editor stopped the templates loading, and once after the app had moved to new hosting without its template folders.
The outcome
The first fix was live within two days of the request. The app is still in use at thinkingframes.app.
Year
2021 to 2024
Made for
Thinking Matters
Our role
Web app design, build and support
What was delivered
A web app with nine frame tiles
19 editable templates, including variants
9 shape libraries, one for each frame
Two fixes in 2024
Sam responded to our request quickly and resolved the problem very promptly and efficiently. We definitely recommend Hankin Digital.
Annabel L
Chief Operations Officer, Thinking Matters
