Design Techniques in Practice (H7072)
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Design Techniques in Practice
Module H7072
Module details for 2024/25.
15 credits
FHEQ Level 5
Module Outline
Design Techniques in Practice is a core module of any Product Design degree. It delivers methods, thinking processes and techniques that will help you organise projects throughout your degree and designer career. This includes an understanding of the main empathic and intuitive (non-systematic) design research methods to develop design thoughts and subsequent concepts. There is an appreciation for the relevance and importance of the Product Design Specification (PDS), with an understanding of how it changes during a typical Product Design development process. You will be using two and three-dimensional sketch concepts, along with other typical design development techniques such as the use of two and three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD), user-testing and conceptual iterations. The module content and associated project brief include the presentation of design concepts that could be taken to the eventual physical creation.
Pre-Requisite
Materials & Manufacture,
Product Design for the 21st Century,
Principles of Engineering Design,
Visual Communication.
Library
ENGINEERING DESIGN METHODS, STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCT DESIGN - Cross, Nigel. Wiley.
ISBN: 0 471 872250 4.
ENGINEERING METHODS FOR ROBUST PRODUCT DESIGN - Fowlkes, W. Crevelling, C. Addison Wesley.
ISBN: 10:0-201-63367-1.
ENGINEERING DESIGN METHODS, STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCT DESIGN - Nigel Cross. Wiley.
ISBN: 2004 0-471-872250-4.
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AND ENGINEERING DESIGN - Lumsdaine, E. Lumsdaine, M. Shelnutt, J. William. Mcgraw-Hill College. ISBN: 0072360585.
CREATING INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS USING TOTAL DESIGN - Pugh, S. Addison Wesley Longman;
ISBN: 0201634856.
DRAWING FOR DESIGNERS - Alan Pipes. Laurence King. ISBN: 978-1-85669-533-6.
PRODUCT DESIGN - Baxter, Mike. CRC Press. ISBN: 0-7487-4197-6.
WHAT IS PRODUCT DESIGN? Laura Slack. RotoVision. ISBN: 978-2-940361-24-3.
Module learning outcomes
Apply typical design techniques for the creation and presentation of viable solutions and related design concepts, according to customer and user requirements and final product design specifications, (PDS).
Collect, analyse and apply appropriate design and research methods addressing limited or contradictory information to inform design decisions to create feasible design solutions to technical problems.
Apply knowledge of non-engineering methods in technical design to monitor and interpret the results of analyses and modelling. This will then be applied to a proposed concept in order to produce a viable and workable design concept.
Demonstrate knowledge of and apply engineering and design methods in technical design to monitor and interpret the results of analyses and modelling to produce a viable and workable design concept. and workable design concept.
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | 100.00% | |
| Coursework components. Weighted as shown below. | ||
| Portfolio | A1 Week 1 | 80.00% |
| Report | T1 Week 9 | 20.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn Semester | Lecture | 2 hours | 11111111100 |
| Autumn Semester | Workshop | 2 hours | 00001011111 |
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