| Academic Unit: |
Industrial Product Design |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
None |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Course Objectives: |
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the language of design and the application of fundamental design methods and processes in practice. Students will learn how design influences society, business and people while gaining practical creative and analytical skills This course will explore how design is integrated in specific areas or disciplines. Course will introduce the common methods and cognitive approaches that they can apply to their own design problems. Students will be encouraged to critically engage with design theory and use creative thinking to make decisions that solve design-related issues in their areas of specialisation by applying various methods. |
| Course Contents: |
This course involves the methodological approach stages of the design process such as research, concept development, scenario development. Encouraging students to make design decision with appropriate methods through different phases in different design problems. Beside, course will help students to improve their skills to manage the design process and work within the multidisciplinary teams. Course will help to develop understanding on the relation with the design process theories and design methods in the context of problem solving activities. The course includes reading materials that supports the theoretical background about design thinking. The design process, at every level of industrial organizations, is addressed through in-class discussions and role-playing games. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- Use design principles to plan a creative process;
- 2- Identify and evaluate the design brief and task for design to be most effective;
- 3- Generate creative concepts in response to a brief;
- 4- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of design in a specific area of design
- 5- Explore the various methods and creative approaches used to solve design-related problems;
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
- Lectures, supported by slides - In class discussions and Q&As - Design exercises and student presentations - Film screening - A research paper as a midterm exam via Blackboard. - Open source final exam Students are responsible to work on their projects during the course |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
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Introduction Design & Product Development Process |
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Design & Product Development Process |
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Understanding Design Problem |
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Design Thinking & Design Cognition |
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Framing Design Problem; Conceptual Product Design |
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Phases of Design: Clarifying Design Task |
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Phases of Design: New Design Ideas |
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Phases of Design: Evaluation of Product Features |
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Phases of Design: Embodiment Design |
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Phases of Design: Decision & Selection |
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| 11 |
Design Information; Research for Design |
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Design Project Management & Design Teamwork |
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Methodological Framework of Various Design Approaches |
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Emotional Design & User Experience Methods |
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At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
Lidwell, W., Holden, K., & Butler, J. (2010). Universal Principles of Design: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design. Beverly, MA.: Rockport Publishers.Kelley
Cross, Nigel, 2007, Designerly ways of knowing, Birkha.
Higgins, J. 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques. Florida, New Management Publishing Company, 1994.
Blessing, Lu.T. M., Chakrabarti A., 2009, DRM, a design research methodology, London : Springer
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