Product Design 1

Learning Outcomes

1. Students will engage in group brainstorming, ideation and analysis sessions, to deliver product design solutions relevant to a specific brief.
2. Students will gain experience working in teams.
3. Students will understand positive and negative examples of product design and their relationship to acceptable cultural norms, including indigenous groups issues of cultural acquisition (colonisation) and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
4. Students will have hands on experience with prototyping methods, making and testing their idea across all three majors.
5. Students will learn and practice a variety of communication skills, including hand sketching, digital design software and written descriptions.  
6. Students will learn a systematic product design and development process. From brief, research, concept ideation, prototyping and testing through to product development, detailed design, digital communication and presentation skills.
7. Students will produce a professional portfolio documenting their learning and design process, from start to finish, using professional examples for critical analysis.
8. Students will describe and critically discuss the major influential design, styles and notable innovations from past and present that contribute to contemporary design discourse, including contemporary Māori designers.

Prerequisites

For further information see School of Product Design on the departments and faculties page .