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MAS.742

Industrial Design Intelligence: A Cognitive Approach to Engineering

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2003

Topics

  • Industrial Design Intelligence: Why? To Make Everything!
  • Engineering and Evaluation: A Perspective
  • TrackPoint
  • Famous Industrial Design Examples
  • Discussion of Product Design Projects
  • Thinkpad Stories of Design Challenges and Solutions
  • Prototyping Stories
  • Invention and Evaluation of Graphical Interfaces
  • Physical Model Making
  • Field Trip to Design Continuum
  • Go to and Write a Report on Media Lab Open Houses
  • Discuss Project Description Proposals
  • The Idea of Design: Perspectives from the Design World
  • Project Mock-ups Presented, and discuss Charles Eames
  • Discuss Design for the Real World, and Raymond Loewy
  • Discuss Project Evaluation, and Richard Sapper
  • Sensation and Perception, and Deconstruct Product
  • Memory and Learning
  • Writing a Paper
  • Motor Control
  • Project Evaluation Discussion
  • Discuss Drafts of Papers
  • Product Lifecycle
  • Psychology of Everyday Things
  • Field Trip to Design IDEO
  • Project Reviews
  • Final Project Presentation

Readings

  • Wickens, Christopher D., Sallie E. Gordon, and Yili Liu. An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering. Princeton, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN: 9780131837362.
    Listed reading
  • Trudeau, Norman. Professional Modelmaking: A Handbook of Techniques and Materials for Architects and Designers. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1995. ISBN: 9780823040988.
    Listed reading
  • Fiell, Charlotte, and Peter Fiell. Design of the 20th Century. Los Angeles, CA: Taschen Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 9783822855423.
    Listed reading
  • Papanek, Victor. Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change. Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985. ISBN: 9780897331531.
    Listed reading
  • Woodham, Jonathan M. Twentieth Century Design. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780192842046.
    Listed reading
  • Coren, Stanley, Lawrence M. Ward, and James T. Enns. Sensation and Perception. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN: 9780471272557.
    Listed reading
  • Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780465067107.
    Listed reading
Sources