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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. ŞENİZ ATİK
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course To provide theoretical and practical information about the product design process in the field of industrial design and to monitor and evaluate product design processes.
Course Content What is Industrial Product Design? What is its scope and definition? First Design Thought in Man, Origins of Design and First Productions..Who is a Designer? What are the job description and responsibilities? Concepts related to design and their brief definitions, Design trainings. Design Process, Problem Definition, Developing Solutions and evaluating a product design.

Weekly Course Subjects

1What is Industrial Product Design? What are its Definition and Scope? Who is the designer? What are the job description and responsibilities?
2Basic concepts, professional terminology, interactions with other business disciplines, the concept of 'Research' in Product Design; Research methods and resources
3Examination of problem definition, concepts of research questions and creative idea generation process in design, examination of brainstorming, 'mind map' and similar idea generation and problem-solving methods.
4Design development process; Creating the details of the design, materials to be used and production technologies.
5Industrial Design basic concepts: Visual Thinking, Creativity and Functionality in Design, What is Ergonomics? Purposes and Development
6Industrial Design basic concepts: Meaning in Design and Understanding Design, Imagining Design Industrial Design basic concepts: Meaning in Design and Understanding Design, Imagining Design
7Introduction of the concept of industrial design to the industry.
8MIDTERM EXAM
9Design Education and Vocational Training; Contemporary Design Education “ULM School of Art and Design”
10Design Education and Vocational Training: “Bauhouse Schools”
11The beginning of the first Design Education in our country and the first designers.
12Visual and audio product expression techniques (2D and 3D techniques)
13Design alternatives and development process, applied design modeling.
14Homework monitoring the product design process, questions and general evaluation.

Resources

1. Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Currency & Doubleday, 1988,
2. Robert J. Sternberg, 1994. Thinking And Problem Solving. Academic Press,
3. Stanton, Neville A. (ed). Human Factors in Consumer Products. London: Taylor & Francis, 2003,
4. Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, Basics Design 08: Design Thinking, Publisher: Fairchild Books AVA (December 10, 2009), ISBN-10: 2940411174,
5. Chris Lefteri, Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design, 2012.