Learning Outcomes for the BDes Degree Program
Relative to design practice
- Design products, communications, and/or environments for specific contexts
- Design products, communications, and/or environments to facilitate meaningful interactions among people, the built world, and the natural world
- Be able to use various approaches, methods, and tools in the design of products, communications, and environments
- Understand and design complex systems through practical applications involving products, communications, and/or environments
- Define and conduct individual and collaborative design research projects
- Describe the scale, territory, roles, and responsibilities of design
Relative to skill building and the learning of design methods
- Prototype products, communications, and environments through the appropriate application of skills and methods
- Be able to use a range of appropriate tools and methods in visualizing ideas
- Generate, iterate, and refine the visualization of abstract and concrete design ideas individually and collaboratively
- Deconstruct and construct images of existing ideas and hypothetical ideas
- Describe human principles as they relate to design
- Practice behavioral and ethnographic research methods
- Perform forms of testing and evaluation of design concepts
- Participate in team collaboration as a critical function of the design process
- Present design projects for peer, public, and client review and critique
- Provide and respond to critical feedback in relation to personal design work and others
Relative to design studies
- Explain the role of identity, values, and worldview in relation to design
- Consider models of interrelations, defining where and how design can/should intervene
- Describe the differences between people, stemming from their ethnicity, gender, class, etc., and how they inform the practice of design
- Interpret and assess the future as it relates to design through forecasting, risk assessment, and backcasting
- Argue and improvise via design artifacts, presentations, and persuasion