Product Design 1

Learning Outcomes

- Engage with group-brainstorming, ideation and analysis sessions, to deliver
product design solutions within given specifications for specified user-groups.
o (Graduate Profile 1, 2, 8, 11)

- Have had experience working in a team
o (Graduate Profile 11)

- Give both positive and negative examples of product performance and
acceptability in the context of cultural norms and end-users, including indigenous
groups and issues of cultural acquisition (colonisation) and the Treaty of Waitangi.
o (Graduate Profile 2, 4, 10, 12, BiCC 4, 5, 7)

- Have hands-on experience in product design prototyping methods, refinement
and presentation of final concepts to a high level, relevant to the major being
studied.
o (Graduate Profile 6, 11)

- Use a variety of approaches to communicate product concepts, through hand
drawn sketches, written descriptions and production methods / block diagrams.
o (Graduate Profile 7)

- Describe and leverage the stages involved throughout systematic product design
and development: research, brief and specification, concept ideation, design
development, detailed design, prototyping, presentation and digital
communication.
o (Graduate Profile 4)

- To produce a professional portfolio / report that outlines product concept
development from start to finish, against original design analysis and
specifications.
o (Graduate Profile 7)

- Describe and critically discuss the major influential designers, styles and
noticeable design innovations throughout history, including contemporary Maori
design.
o (Graduate Profile 4, 14, BiCC 2)

Prerequisites

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