Design courses at MIT
- Product design
- User interaction design
- 6.089 - Interactive Technology Design - IAP 2008-2010 - The goal of this course is to teach the skills of ideation, brainstorming and interaction prototyping to an audience with basic programming familiarity via hands-on projects with Arduino
- Complex System Design
- 2.195 Quantitative Design Strategies for Complex Systems
Design programs at Ideation
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Portfolio Resources - Website providing basic information for creating design portfolios. Contact us through the website for more information.
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Workshop Friday (Spring 2010) - Weekly opportunity for students to teach design-related skills and techniques, receiving feedback from others who will learn from each week's workshop.
- DPD: Discover Product Design - Freshman Pre-Orientation Program (FPOP) open to entering freshman. Runs the week before orientation
- 2.S97 Designing for People (formerly Design-A-Palooza) - IAP 2008-2013 - This course focuses on addressing problems and issues found in everyday life and your surroundings through design. Students will be introduced to the early stages of the design process: need-finding, ideation and concept generation/selection. Open to all majors and years, no experience necessary.
Research Conferences in Design
- Design Computing and Cognition (DCC), Stuttgart, July 2010
- ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Montreal, August 2010
- Design and Emotion, Chicago, October 2010
- International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED), Copenhagen, August 2011
- International Associations of Societies of Design Research (IASDR), Delft, November 2011
- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Vancouver, May 2011
Design Journals
Design Related References and Resources