Description
This course covers modern tools and methods for product
design and development.
Objectives
By the completion of the course, students will learn about
the conception and creation of new products and objects, a fundamental
understanding of a development-oriented product design in which teams of
industrial design students conceive, design, and prototype a physical
product.
Content
Topics include steps of the product design process, such as
tools, idea conception, engineering and manufacturing, product planning,
identifying customer needs, concept generation, product architecture,
industrial design, concept design, and design-for manufacturing. Class sessions
employ cases and hands-on exercises to reinforce the key ideas.
Mode of Delivery
Mode of delivery will involve lectures and lecture notes,
discussions and hands-on projects.
Reading List
- Industrial
Design Workshop Henshū Projekuto. (1993). Industrial Design Workshop: the
creative process behind product design. Tokyo, Meisei Publications.
- Otto,
K. & Wood, K. (2000) Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and
New Product Development. (1sted.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall.
- Product
Design and Factory Development. (2005). United Kingdom: CRC
Press.
- Thompson,
R. (2007) Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals. New York, New York.
Thames & Hudson.
- Henry,
K. (2012) Drawing for Product Designers (Portfolio Skills) London, Laurence
King Publishing
- Cuffaro, D., Blackman, C. J., Paige, D., Laituri, D., Zaksenberg, I., Covert, D. E., Sears, L. M., Nehez-Cuffaro, A. (2013). The
Industrial Design Reference & Specification Book: Everything Industrial
Designers Need to Know Every Day. United States: Rockport Publishers
- Morris, R. (2017). The
Fundamentals of Product Design. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury
Publishing.
- Ulrich, K. T., Eppinger, S. D., Yang, M. C. (2019). Product
Design and Development. United Kingdom: McGraw-Hill Education.
- Milton, A., Rodgers, P. (2023). Research
Methods for Product Design. United Kingdom: Quercus Publishing.
