Understanding Design by Prof. Nina Sabnani | IIT Bombay

NPTEL is offering online course for undergraduate students in Understanding Design.

About the course:

• We are surrounded by designed objects, from highways that traverse thousands of kilometers to a pen drive that fits a lot in the smallest of spaces.
• Designers have used their skills to translate ideas and needs into all the objects that we see around us.
• Design can be interpreted in multiple ways and can mean different things in different contexts.
• This course aims to create an awareness and understanding of the discipline of design and its multidisciplinary nature.
• The relevance and value of design and how it impacts society, industry and the environment is established through lectures, case studies and project activities.

Course Layout:

• Module 1: An Introduction to Design
• Module 2: Users and Context
• Module 3: Design and Society,
• Module 4: Design and Sustainability
• Module 5: Design and Industry,
• Module 6: Design and collaboration
• Module 7: Innovation by Design

Duration: 04 weeks

Enrollment Ends: September 21, 2020

For more details, please visit: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_de09/preview