User-centered Design Approach (5 op)

Arviointiasteikko

H-5

Sisällön jaksotus

User orientation is the first core part of the design point of view: basically, we always design and develop things for others than ourselves. Study course introduces the meaning of empathy, curiosity, and joint communication, based on design practices and design thinking.

CDIO framework is presented as a structural basis for engineering studies.

These issues are deepened in contact meetings and exercises on methods of user understanding and information acquisition.

Our main themes leading to user orientation are
- Physical user, ergonomics, and usability
- Senses in the user experience
- Emotions before, during and after the user experience
- Conceive stage (CDIO) that includes defining user/customer needs

Introduction to User-centered design and CDIO approaches.

User-centered approach will be expanded by the sustainability perspectives, like life and planet centered approaches. Web course YH00CT31-3006 Fundamentals of Sustainable Development 1 ECTS forms a basis for the sustainability knowledge (separate enrolling).

Tavoitteet

After the course, the student:
- Can examine the interactions between humans and the physical environment, tools, and processes.
- Can apply various methods that produce user understanding and knowledge.
- Understands the basics of the CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) framework.

Sisältö

User orientation is the first core part of the design point of view: basically, we always design and develop things for others than ourselves. Study course introduces the meaning of empathy, curiosity, and joint communication, based on design practices and design thinking. CDIO framework is presented as a structural basis for engineering studies. These issues are deepened in contact meetings and exercises on methods of user understanding and information acquisition.

Our main themes leading to user orientation are
- Physical user, ergonomics, and usability
- Senses in the user experience
- Emotions before, during and after the user experience
- Conceive stage (CDIO) that includes defining user/customer needs

Oppimateriaalit

- Delft Design Guide: Perspectives, models, approaches, methods, 2020
- Donald A. Norman: The Design of everyday things (latest editions)
- McDonough W., Braungart M. Cradle to Cradle. 2002. Remaking the Way We Make Things.
- Sanders, Stappers: Convivial Toolbox, Generative research for the front end of Design, 2014.
- Ulrich, Karl T.; Eppinger, Steven D.; Yang, Maria C. McGraw-Hill Education [2020] Seventh edition. Product design and development, 2020.

Opetusmenetelmät

Intro lectures
Hands-on learning
Individual and small group assignments

Tenttien ajankohdat ja uusintamahdollisuudet

No exams. Exercises can be supplemented if necessary based on teacher's feedback.

Kansainvälisyys

Learning by doing and experimenting and sharing knowledge
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Sustainable development is one part of the course contents.

Toteutuksen valinnaiset suoritustavat

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Opiskelijan ajankäyttö ja kuormitus

Exercises
Individual and team work
1 credit = 27 hours of student work, 5 credits = 135 hours of student work, which consists of contact teaching, exercises and independent study.

Lisätiedot

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