49-710 Product Design Thinking and Practice

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is an introduction to Product Design for those who have limited design practice andor design thinking or who come from different fields of study andor tangent fields such as Architecture and Communications. Through readings, minilectures, and a series of handson activities focused on practice challenges, students are exposed to core tenets of design thinking and practice. The relationship between design, product development, and business is explored with group projects, discussions, and the analysis of artifacts and process. This is a required course in the MIIPS degree program. All other students must contact the instructor for permission.

Prerequisites: none listed

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