Product Design Ii

Visual Thinking; Part 1: Introduction to different visual thinking skills; sketching (thumbnails exploratory and developmental) rendering (pen and ink, colour pencils and markers and computer-aided) and 3D representation (study models in cardboard, foam and plastics). Part 2: Class assignment in visual thinking skills through a basic project brief introducing you to the application of appropriate techniques to explore the creation of product form in relationship to function and usability, human factors, materials and manufacture. Design Project: Part 1: Introduction to product design process (brief, project identification, research and data collection, ideation, concept selection, design finalization and presentation) Part 2: Based on a brief given, to apply visual thinking skills and product design process to generate concepts, progressively moving from ideas to viable solutions that may be evaluated through discussions and presentation, to a viable final design that is then presented through visual presentation and physical mock-up