Advanced Product Innovation credit:

4 Hours

Examines higher-level product design concepts, moving beyond form-making to emphasize strategic product ecosystems and innovations that disrupt conventional practices. The course is designed to prompt students to investigate how emerging technologies, user-driven research, and sustainable business models address complex, real-world challenges and IP concerns. Students will analyze these challenges across diverse settings, from technologically sophisticated urban centers to resource-limited environments. Students will explore solutions that are culturally meaningful and functionally robust, independent of technological resources. Prerequisite: Restricted to students with graduate standing in a design degree program.