Course Overview
Design Definitions and Design Spectrum * Product Attributes – Function and Emotion * Product configurations and Component relationships (component Matrix) * Introduction to Design Research * Product Analysis – Diachronic, Synchronic * Understanding and Analysing contexts, parallel situations, future situations * Understanding modularity and modular systems – 3D lattice and structures * Design of Modular System – abstract design * Process of conception and its documentation * Seminar and exercises related to above topics.
| Total Credits | 6.0 |
| Type | Theory |
| Lecture | 6.0 |
| Half Semester | N |
| Text Reference | * Jones, J.C : Design methods: Seeds of human futures, Wiley interscience, London, 1992.* Gorb, Peter, Ed. Living by Design, Lund Humphries, London 1978.* M.M Andereasen, Integrated Product Development, IFS Publications Ltd. / Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1987.* Asimow Morris; Introduction to Design, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962.* Pulos, Arthur, The American Design Ethic, MIT, USA, 1983.* Roozenburg and Eekels, Product Design: Fundamentals and Methods, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; New Ed edition, 1995* Ulrich, Karl T., Eppinger, Steven D.; Product Design and Development, McGraw-Hill 1995, 2000, 2004* Goodrich, Kristina; Design Secrets: Products: 50 Real-Life Projects Uncovered – Industrial Designers Society of America, Publisher: Rockport Publishers June 2001* Cagan, Jonathan; Vogel, Craig M.; Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval, Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall; 2002* Rouse, William B.; Design for Success: A Human-Centered Approach to Designing Successful Products and Systems, Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1991 |
About Instructor(s)


Prof. Sadhu N | Prof. Sandesh M. Ramu
