Product Design BDes 2 Interactions and Experience

This course aims to extend student learning beyond the material dimension of product design practice, opening up the immaterial and relational concepts of interaction and experience as design ‘domains.’ In doing so it requires students to develop their visual and narrative abilities in order to communicate their design process and its outcomes. Further, it introduces the concept of ‘experience prototypes’ as a means of communicating user-experience in situations where a working prototype is unfeasible, creating the possibility of generating user-feedback capable of being used to refine the design process. It also involves an introduction to digital technologies capable of supporting user-engagement and interface with design outcomes.