The class covers a number of design related topics in lecture. Three of the lecture notes from the class are presented here.
Lecture Notes
Materials (PDF)
Tools (PDF)
Sensors (PDF)
Lecture Topics
| SES # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Industrial Design Intelligence: Why? To Make Everything! |
| 2 | Engineering and Evaluation: A Perspective |
| 3 |
TrackPoint
The Makings of an Ergonomic Product and Article |
| 4 |
Famous Industrial Design Examples
Design of the 20th Century |
| 5 | Discussion of Product Design Projects |
| 6 | Thinkpad Stories of Design Challenges and Solutions |
| 7 |
Prototyping Stories
Deconstruct Product |
| 8 | Invention and Evaluation of Graphical Interfaces |
| 9 | Physical Model Making |
| 10 | Field Trip to Design Continuum |
| 11 | Go to and Write a Report on Media Lab Open Houses |
| 12 |
Discuss Project Description Proposals
Discuss ID Magazine |
| 13 | The Idea of Design: Perspectives from the Design World |
| 14 | Project Mock-ups Presented, and discuss Charles Eames |
| 15 | Discuss Design for the Real World, and Raymond Loewy |
| 16 | Discuss Project Evaluation, and Richard Sapper |
| 17 | Sensation and Perception, and Deconstruct Product |
| 18 | Memory and Learning |
| 19 | Writing a Paper |
| 20 | Motor Control |
| 21 | Project Evaluation Discussion |
| 22 | Discuss Drafts of Papers |
| 23 | Product Lifecycle |
| 24 | Psychology of Everyday Things |
| 25 | Field Trip to Design IDEO |
| 26 | Project Reviews |
| 27 | Final Project Presentation |
