产品创新设计专题

This course aims to explore the organic integration of technologies with changing social contexts for a new generation of advanced product designs. Innovation requires identifying the viable opportunities (or problems that matters) and moving through them systemically to deliver new offerings. In order to accommodate the characteristics of ‘innovation’, it will outline the design project considering a specific target customer group and students shall engage in the new product development process, i.e., analytical knowledge- gathering, conceptualizing, synthesis-oriented prototype production and iteration. The outcome of the design project should demonstrate; 1) the product’s nature of task fits to project objectives; 2) the significance of the product resonates to the target consumer (not limited to users) as critical benefit or problem solution; 3) the ‘new offering’ or product opportunity is viable and sustainable.This course should provide students the training of thinking ability to form a new product opportunity and practical design skills including manufacturing technology knowledge.*Project and target customer group will be defined by instructor.