Product Design: The Delft Design Approach - Delft University of Technology

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Learn to design meaningful products and services in this challenging design course.
The following course, offered by Edx, will help you improve your skills and achieve your professional goals. During the program you will study different subjects which are deemed to be useful for those who want to enhance their professional career. Sign up for more information!

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About this course

Some familiarity with concepts like ‘design thinking’, ‘User-centered design’ and ‘Design process’ is a plus. 

Some experience with designing something (even for yourself) is helpful.

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  • IT
  • Design
  • Approach
  • Product Design

Course programme

Do you want to learn how to design? Using the Delft Design Approach, you will learn how to use a number of key design methods to create meaningful products and services. This course is an introduction to the Delft Design Approach offering a set of signature methods from Delft to teach you how to get from understanding the user in context to defining a meaningful design challenge and – in the end – deliver a great design! The course challenges you to experience the design process yourself and reflect on your work with the help of students from Delft, excellent teaching staff and industrial experts. This course has been awarded with the Open Education Consortium Award of Excellence in the category 'Open MOOC'. No previous knowledge of design methods necessary, yet some experience with designing (something) is helpful. LICENSEThe course materials of this course are Copyright Delft University of Technology and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) 4.0 International License.

What you'll learn
  • How to understand users in their own environment
  • How to translate user needs into a design challenge that will spark creativity
  • How to create a meaningful design to meet your challenge
  • How to use methods and models to structure your design projects
  • How to evaluate and present your design

Additional information

Jaap Daalhuizen Dr. Jaap Daalhuizen is assistant professor of Design Theory & Methodology at the Delft University of Technology and post-doctoral researcher at the TU of Denmark. He holds a Master of Science in Integrated Product Design from the TU Delft, where he recently defended his PhD thesis on Method Usage in Design. He is co-editor of the Delft Design Guide and believes that design methods and models are important means to help designers deal with the complexity and uncertainty that is inherent in creating innovative design solutions. 

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