DEA 2730 Human Centered Design Methods
This course explores the use of design methods to conceptualize problems, generate ideas, and re-evaluate the objects, environments, and interfaces produced by design. Through lectures, discussions, exercises, and critiques, the course addresses the contexts of design while providing a hands-on overview of design methods.
Learning Outcomes
Apply a range of design methods to a series of problems, both assigned and self-directed, in the area of design.
Analyze historic and present-day objects, environments, organizations, and techniques, with an aim toward proposing new connections or speculative futures.
Formulate a position with respect to issues in contemporary design culture, expressed through both writing and design.
Selected student work
Assignment/Ideation: slides with best examples from across an entire class.
Assignment/Concept: Hit Lights concept
Assignment/Early prototype with embedded Grove electronics: examples 1, 2, 3.
Assignment: Final Deliverables, Poster: Xtinguish
Assignment: Final Deliverables, Videos and Papers:
Me-U [paper]
Hit Lights [paper]