Reflections on the selection of graduation design topics for industrial design majors
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Thoughts on the selection of graduation design topics for industrial design majors
Abstract: Undergraduate graduation design is a test of the results of four years of undergraduate teaching in the school, it is a practical platform for the students to comprehensively utilize the knowledge of the skills they have learned, and it is an important way to cultivate the students' sense of creativity and innovative ability. In this paper, from the function, purpose and value of design, social attributes, the development trend of design, combined with the school's characteristics of our school on the industrial design graduation design topic selection for reflection and discussion.
Keywords: industrial design; graduation design; design selection
CCTS: G642.0 Literature Symbol Code: A Article No.: 1674-9324(2015)45-0166-02
I. Characteristics of Industrial Design Specialization
Industrial design is a Comprehensive and cross-disciplinary discipline, closely related to art, engineering technology, sociology, marketing, management, psychology, environmental protection and other disciplines, which makes industrial design education also has a comprehensive and interdisciplinary character. How to integrate and transfer various interpenetrating and intersecting knowledge to students in the industrial design education system, so that students have a high degree of comprehensive ability, is a problem that our teachers are constantly exploring. Graduation design is not only a test of undergraduate teaching achievements in four years, but also a practical platform for students to comprehensively utilize the knowledge and skills they have learned, as well as a warm-up exercise for students before they enter the job market. It is crucial to choose a topic for the graduation design, whether it is a real topic or a research topic, in the graduation design process should adhere to the detailed and complete design process, guiding students to start from the systematic research, observe the minutiae of the phenomenon of life, and then discover the problem, analyze the problem, investigate the problem, and ultimately solve the problem.
The analysis of the experience and shortcomings of the previous graduation design selection
1. Some of the selected topics are too specific. Many students graduation design topics set too specific, like air conditioning outdoor unit modeling design, electric water heater modeling design, etc., students often only in the product modeling to go deeper, it is difficult to break through in the field outside the modeling, which to a certain extent limits the students' research ability and innovation ability.
2. Teachers designate more topics and choose a single topic. At present, in the undergraduate graduation design process, we mostly use the instructor as the leading theme, students choose the teacher to select the theme of graduation design mode, this kind of selection is generally more than 90%. In the future, we should further explore the diversification of topics, such as students in the internship period to explore their own graduation design topics, combined with the characteristics of the post-graduation workplace for students to select the topic, so as to cultivate their sense of creativity and innovation, but also to fully mobilize the students' subjective initiative, in order to further cultivate the sense of creativity and innovation in the graduation design of the follow-up work to create the conditions.
3. Insufficient cross-discipline. At present, the graduation design of industrial design majors is still mainly carried out one-on-one by instructors. Define the past and future topics of industrial design, and reference to recent years, Europe (IF), the United States (IDEA), Japan (G-Mark) and other international design awards forum discussion connotation, listing the relevant derived category items: management and operation, economics, history, transportation, architecture, sociology, art, environment, law, health, institutional design, materials, industrial design institutions, and so on. From this, we can see the growing breadth of the development of the professional field of industrial design and the intersectionality of the disciplines, while the breadth of the disciplines and the intersectionality of the disciplines in our current topic selection are still insufficient.
Three, choose and improve the graduation topic thinking
According to recent years, a few of the opening of the industrial design major in the earlier institutions of higher learning excellent graduation design works and the selection of the topic, combined with the author of the graduation design of the experience of the author that the graduation design selection, especially when the research topic is based on the following points.
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1. Closely touch the forefront of social development. With the arrival of the information age and experience economy era, the social, economic and cultural basis of industrial design discipline has undergone a revolutionary change, multidisciplinary knowledge cross-synthesis is becoming a necessity, how to let students better use, grasp the overall integration of social development trends, and then further cultivate and shape their leading design awareness and concepts, has become an important thinking of design education. In recent years, wearable technology has been attracting a lot of attention in the international academic and industrial circles,? Wearable smart devices? is a general term for the application of wearable technology to intelligentize the design of daily wear and develop devices that can be worn, such as eyeglasses, gloves, watches, clothing and shoes. In the last semester with the same work teacher *** with the guidance of the course design, also guided the students have done wearable smart devices in terms of design, not only so that students can better and faster access to the latest information and technology, the smart wearable design also have a better grasp of the design, such as Mao Shichang, Wang Lingyu and other students do?PARTNER companion? wearable helmet design for cyclist users,?PARTNER Companion? also participated in the first IoT Sensory Innovation Competition in 2014. and won the Silver Award in the Platform Creative Category.
2. Comprehensive, social topic selection. Graduation topic selection should be closely integrated with the design frontier, consider the social significance and function, with research significance and innovation, and explore topics with social significance and research foresight. Survey research shows that in recent years, the concern for social and ethical issues of thinking, for the elderly, disabled and other behavioral ability of vulnerable groups of concern and design topics increased, such as Tsinghua University School of Art and Design Department of Industrial Design excellent graduation design works? Sanitary ware design for urban elderly community in China? Rural Elderly Medical Touring Base Station? , the excellent graduation design work of industrial design of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, POCKET - baby stroller re-design based on storage behavior, and the excellent graduation design work of Jiangnan University. POCKET - Redesign of Baby Stroller Based on Storage Behavior, by Jiangnan University Bean Companion--Mobile Phone and Community Elderly System Designed for the Elderly? by China Academy of Art, and POCKET - baby stroller redesign based on storage behavior, by Jiangnan University. Early Intervention Aids for Children with Cerebral Palsy, by China Academy of Art. Hunan University, "Design of a newborn's transnasal non-invasive respiratory system", China Academy of Art Newborn Baby Nasal Ventilator The outstanding graduation design works of China Academy of Art and Hunan University, such as the design of neonatal transnasal non-invasive ventilator, focus on the needs of the aging and other vulnerable groups in the society, and pay attention to the salient and hotspot problems faced by the Chinese society to further explore the social responsibility of design. In the above listed . Industrial Design Derivative Categories, one of the categories on health is divided into medical product design, auxiliary design, universal design, infant and child design, and food utensil design. The author's graduation design topic selection is also mainly based on the above considerations. The research topic of infant and child design was chosen and defined as the design of children's utensil system. The proposal of this topic, combined with the author's own research in this field, in the original children's toys on the basis of the design of the graduation design topic further broadened and adjusted to the children's appliances design. In this way, giving students a greater range of choices, broadening the ability of students to explore social issues and the future needs of different groups of people. Selection of topics too wide, students often do not know what to do, such as a needle in a haystack; selection of topics too specific and clear, such as once selected children's educational toys design, due to the full marketization of such products, students are often not easy to break the many limitations, innovative thinking. After the adjustment of the graduation topic, students can be children's users and children's products consumer population segmentation, but also for children's appliances from clothing, food, housing, transportation, entertainment, education, and then observe the life of the phenomenon of the subtleties of the discovery of the problem, and solve the problem. In this year's graduation design session, two students identified "Wonderful Time--Children's Time Management System Product Design" and "Egg Laying--Children's Financial Management System Product Design", and the students' final design positioning was within the teacher's grasp and yet unexpected. Unexpectedly, under the broad scope of my children's appliance system design, the students clarified their own direction and combined their own interests into it, and the final result was the result of our cooperation and giving full play to creative thinking and innovation, which achieved better results. 3. Integration of our school running characteristics. When we choose the graduation design topics, we should not only consider the future development trend of design and social hot issues and other social environment, but also combine our school? Science, art, fashion? The characteristics of our schooling. With the development of economy, society and human needs, fashion has also become an important concept and demand of many brands. Nowadays, many brands in Europe and the United States also focus on fashion and experience as their brand concepts, such as Anthropologie, a U.S. high-end clothing and home furnishing retailer named after the French name of a social science, anthropology. Retailing a wide range of clothing, accessories, furniture, home furnishings, and decorative items, it is set on a comfortable and fashionable urban style. The new designs are geared toward the highly educated, cultured, professional woman with a gross household income of $200,000 or more who seeks one-of-a-kind designs. They sell an attitude towards life, as evidenced by their design philosophy and design demographic positioning. As people continue to explore social development trends and design functions, the scope of the fashion industry is also expanding, and fashion products are no longer limited to clothing and apparel products, in addition, there are also accessories, fashionable electronic products, such as the most classic Apple series products, fashionable homes, and fashionable portable products. Thad Starner, developer of wearable technology and mastermind of Google Glass, once said? Wearables? are inherently fashionable. The first realization is that you have to think about its shape, and everything you wear on your body is fashion.? The author believes that wearable design is the future trend of society, a fashion, and with our school? Science, Art, Fashion? s positioning. as we set out to design wearable products based on specific user lifestyles. Because wearable products are crossing the barrier of technology and integrating fashion elements, they are getting deeper and deeper into every aspect of people's lives. Students worked as a team to have a deeper understanding and thinking about the design of wearable products based on specific users' lifestyles, and systematically researched the design based on specific users, such as special workers, celebrities, fashionable young people, hipsters, blind people, sports enthusiasts, etc., and found the design positioning through the study of users' needs and lifestyles, as well as the study of the use environment (e.g., haze, outdoor, special working environment, etc.).
To find the design positioning based on the user's needs and lifestyle research and the use of environmental research (such as haze, outdoor, special working environment, etc.).
4. Continuously explore the value of design goals. The goal and value of design has been accompanied by the development of society and modern design, and has been hotly debated. From the beginning of modern design, the most respected? Form follows function? , to culture, emotion, interaction and so on in the 20th century, all the way to the contemporary experience design. In the era of experience economy, life becomes a process of feeling experience, and the goal and value of design is to provide richer and more diversified experiences for people's life. It can be seen from the excellent graduation design of industrial design students in some universities, focusing on the cultural lineage, i.e. focusing on the inheritance of local characteristics and historical and cultural traditions, such as the design school of China Academy of Art's ? Qingqing as Thames? The designers of China Academy of Art's School of Design, such as Cai Shang, who focuses on experience, have created their own design. Sense - Relight? and focusing on the experience of natural perception of our industrial design graduate Qian Yahui's FLOAT KINGDOM Floating Kingdom - natural perception of children's recreational facilities design?
FLOAT KINGDOM Floating Kingdom - Design of a nature-aware children's recreation facility.
Four, for the graduation design theme of rethinking
Design is not an individual heroism, only teamwork, the rational use of design methods, in order to get 1 +1>2 effect. Now students in the graduation design selection, usually more than two students a selection of topics, in the preliminary design research and design research, design positioning and program exploration, are able to cooperate, bursting out of innovation and wisdom of the spark. In the future graduation design link, we should further strengthen the teamwork between teachers, in addition to the cooperation between teachers of art majors and engineering majors in the teaching and research department, we should also strengthen the inter-disciplinary and cross-border partnership between teachers of industrial design majors and other majors, as well as the inter-disciplinary and cross-border cooperation in the graduation design topic, which is the development trend of our graduation topic in the future.
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