Orientation Module:
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1:
Design Thinking Skills
Understand the critical design thinking skills needed to either improve an existing product or design a new product.
Module 2:
Identifying Customer Needs
Learn to identify customer needs and draft customer needs statements as your first step towards user innovations.
Module 3:
Product Specifications
Learn how to translate user needs into product specifications quantitatively, and how establishing product metrics can help to define those specifications.
Module 4:
Applied Creativity
Learn to apply creativity, brainstorming, and concept generation process in designing needs solutions.
Module 5:
Prototyping
Explore prototyping methods, strategies, and real-life examples where these have been applied to create a design that represents customer needs and product specifications.
Module 6:
Design for Services
Understand design of services, identify the potential for innovations within them, and learn how
to apply product development frameworks to the service context.
Module 7:
Product Architecture
Learn to use modular and integral product architectures in determining the building blocks of a product.
Module 8:
Financial Analysis
Learn to perform financial analysis of your project idea and decide if it is backed by a strong business rationale (Worth-It).
Module 9:
Design for Environment
Learn how to apply design for environment principles to a product life cycle.
Module 10:
Product Development Processes
Learn to select and implement a product development process (staged, spiral, and agile)that's aligned to your project needs.
Orientation Module:
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 6:
Design for Services
Understand design of services, identify the potential for innovations within them, and learn how
to apply product development frameworks to the service context.
Module 1:
Design Thinking Skills
Understand the critical design thinking skills needed to either improve an existing product or design a new product.
Module 7:
Product Architecture
Learn to use modular and integral product architectures in determining the building blocks of a product.
Module 2:
Identifying Customer Needs
Learn to identify customer needs and draft customer needs statements as your first step towards user innovations.
Module 8:
Financial Analysis
Learn to perform financial analysis of your project idea and decide if it is backed by a strong business rationale (Worth-It).
Module 3:
Product Specifications
Learn how to translate user needs into product specifications quantitatively, and how establishing product metrics can help to define those specifications.
Module 9:
Design for Environment
Learn how to apply design for environment principles to a product life cycle.
Module 4:
Applied Creativity
Learn to apply creativity, brainstorming, and concept generation process in designing needs solutions.
Module 10:
Product Development Processes
Learn to select and implement a product development process (staged, spiral, and agile)that's aligned to your project needs.
Module 5:
Prototyping
Explore prototyping methods, strategies, and real-life examples where these have been applied to create a design that represents customer needs and product specifications.
