Product Design - Undergraduate Course
Bachelor's degree
In Milano (Italy)
Be the entrepreneur and producer of your own ideas and project!
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Languages
English
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Location
Milano (Italy)
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
16/10/2024
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Credits
180
Just step into a new way of looking at products using a user-centred approach, just like we do in our Product Design degree programme at IED Milano. We will work on making products -as the tangible part of projects- but also on providing related services. These are intangible parts revealing the connection between products, their users and the system around them. With a practical approach and workshop activities, you will have the opportunity to experience first-hand the multidisciplinary perspective of this job. You will be working on challenges of growing complexity to meet people and market requirements. You will be involved in the whole design cycle of a product, working on related services as well, to cover all the key steps of the process: from user research to market analysis, from prototyping to usability testing.
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About this course
The Product Design programme at IED Milano is for anyone who wants to approach with curiosity and enthusiasm the interactions produced through products and services in our day-to-day life, trying to improve things as best as possible. Whatever your previous experience or education, if you really want to move into the world of product design, all you need is a passion and curiosity to explore all the tools available for you to make your ideas come true, and fulfil your dream of becoming a product designer. You will be part of a large family made up of lecturers, students and experienced professionals who will be with you as you develop all the theory and technical skills needed to successfully move into your future career. Teamwork and collaborations with our partner companies will give you the opportunity to explore your own talents, to build your own strategic thinking and develop your personal approach to product design.
Title –The First Level Academic Diploma is recognized by MIUR (Ministry for Education, University and Research) and equated with the Bachelor’s Degree issued by Universities.
You will come into close contact with market demand as you create and maintain relationships with leading national and international companies and design studios that are part of the IED partner network. The Product Design degree programme at IED Milano will provide continuous updating of its curriculum with the help of qualified lecturers, who are all professionals in their own fields. The whole faculty, working together with designers having their backgrounds in the professional, cultural and manufacturing worlds, will introduce you to a profession where the final result is achieved through a careful and detailed process. The aim of the Product Design degree programme is to train professionals who want to experiment and develop their ideas, so they can achieve the skills required to design products, strategies and services for companies, self-production or small-scale craft production. At the end of the three years, you will be able to work as a Product Designer, Service Designer or Concept Designer. You will attend school in small classes where you can experience a lab-based mode of learning, exchange with others and elaborate on creative ideas coming from workshops, contests, seminars or special projects. You will be inspired by your own critical thinking skills, while also building your own identity as a product designer.
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Subjects
- English Language
- Technical Drawing
- Design techniques
- Product Development
- Architecture Design
- Production
- Product Photography
- Product Design
- Product Management
- Product Materials
- Modelling techniques
- Drawing Techniques
- Design Management
- Design Elements
- Design methods
- Design Thinking Process
- Product Analysis
- Design Material
Course programme
First year
The year of discovery: over your first year, you will study theory and practice to learn how to take your first steps into the project design process - from the product idea to be produced and all the way to prototyping and execution. You will also experience how to give shape to your creativity working on real projects outsourced by partner companies.
PERCEPTION OF THEORY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF FORM
DESIGN METHODS
DRAFTING
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MATERIALS TYPOLOGY 1
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
HISTORY OF DESIGN 1
MODEL BUILDING 1
INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL MARKETING
PRODUCT DESIGN 1
Second year
The year of experience: on your third year, we will improve the skills you need to express your creativity independently. We will challenge the difficulties you were confronted with in the previous years, and together we will try to overcome these limits. At the end of the three years, you will be able to work on standard projects based on a brief, on self-produced projects for start-ups, as well as on more advanced projects involving larger systems of products and services.
SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
DRAWING TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES
MATERIALS TYPOLOGY 2
DESIGN 1
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
3D COMPUTER MODEL-MAKING TECHNIQUES
MODEL BUILDING 2
HISTORY OF DESIGN 2
DESIGN MANAGEMENT
PRODUCT DESIGN 2
Third year
3D RENDERING TECHNOLOGIES
LAYOUT AND DISPLAY TECHNIQUES
PRODUCT DESIGN 3
PRODUCT DESIGN 4
PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Product Design - Undergraduate Course