Course Overview
Understanding context related problems, User research-customer’s explicit needs and latent needs. • Aesthetics, trends, style Analysis • Product planning, development of product brief. Concept generation, creativity and innovation. • Evaluation techniques. Peer reviews. • Understanding of the packaging concept and the problems connected with travelling space, technology, ergonomics and aesthetics / styling. • Reading and exercises in mobility related topics. • Tasks/small projects related to this topic.
| Total Credits | 6.0 |
| Type | Theory |
| Lecture | 2.0 |
| Practical | 2.0 |
| Half Semester | N |
| Text Reference | 302225 Jones, J.C : Design methods: Seeds of human futures, Wiley interscience, London, 1992302225 Gorb, Peter, Ed. Living by Design, Lund Humphries, London 1978.302225 M.M Andereasen, Integrated Product Development, IFS Publications Ltd. / Springer Verlag, Berlin, July, 1987.302225 Asimow Morris; Introduction to Design, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1962.302225 Pulos, Arthur, The American Design Ethic, MIT, USA, 1983.302225 Roozenburg and Eekels, Product Design: Fundamentals and Methods, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc; New Ed edition, 23 March 1995.302225 Ulrich, Karl T., Eppinger, Steven D.; Product Design and Development, McGraw-Hill 1995, 2000, 2004, 2302225 Goodrich, Kristina; Design Secrets: Products: 50 Real-Life Projects Uncovered – Industrial Designers Society of America, Publisher: Rockport Publishers June 2001.302225 Cagan, Jonathan; Vogel, Craig M.; Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval, Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall; 2002302225 Rouse, William B.; Design for Success: A Human-Centered Approach to Designing Successful Products and Systems, Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 14 March1991. |
About Instructor

Prof. Nishant Sharma
