Product Design and Development is a project-based course that covers modern tools and methods for product design and development. The cornerstone is a project in which teams of management, engineering, and industrial design students conceive, design and prototype a physical product. Class sessions are conducted in workshop mode and employ cases and hands-on exercises to reinforce the key ideas. Topics include identifying customer needs, concept generation, product architecture, industrial design, and design-for-manufacturing.

• Visualizing Problems Helps Solution Creation
  
• Visualizing Others' POV/Perspectives Helps Creation
• Switching Between Tasks/Goals Helps Creativity
• Visualizing Future Self Helps Solution Creation
• Brief Walks Help Creativity
• Time Constraints Are Useful
• Spotting Opportunity in the Wild
• Discovery-Oriented Actions Help Creation (observe & interact range)
• What-to-Build Prototyping Guide
• Evaluation Axes, integrating constraints

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