PDES 210 Elements of Product Design

3 credits 90.0 hours
200 level undergraduate course

Emerging product designers learn to apply their knowledge of human factors, research methods, and materiality to the design and development of meaningful products that solve pressing problems. Students will exercise design thinking mindsets to identify needs, generate a diverse range of possible solutions, and prototype the strongest ones. Lectures and readings will cover a range of contemporary and historical products and introduce best practices in product development including validated learning, continuous deployment, and minimally viable products.

Prerequisites PDES*204 and PDES*211

Corequisite Course(s): PDES*215

This course is not repeatable for credit.