81899 - Industrial Design 4

Learning outcomes

The LABORATORIO DI DESIGN DEI PROCESSI B C.I. is an integrated course consisting of the DISEGNO INDUSTRIALE 4 (6 CFU) and DISEGNO (5 CFU) modules. At the end of the course the student:  will be able to design industrial products characterized by complex, irregular, biomorphic, deformable surfaces, with typical problems of reproduction of cultural goods or non-rigid materials.

Course contents

The course explores the themes of interaction design applied to the creation of structures and forms at a theoretical and design level, starting from the design of the interfaces of artifacts up to the development of systems that allow interaction between man and production.
The design of interfaces for devices in relation to Industry 4.0 scenarios, and the ability to use data in a predictive way constitute a new resource for designing new practices for design and production.
This course aims to provide the tools for design research in the field of interaction design, exercising the students' ability to define the personas and scenarios that lead to the definition of a design concept.

The topics of the lessons will be:
Human Machine Interface and Industrial 4.0
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Data visualization
Product prototyping (both physical and digital aspects)
Validation aspects of the usability of artifacts and UX

The students must be able at the end of the course to carry out the following phases of the project:
Set up a basic research on the topics of the exercise;
Carry out a design research that leads to the definition of a concept;
Definition of personas and scenarios;
Define the conceptual model of the product interface;
Develop the system wireframes;
Design a Design System of the interface;
Define the executives of the graphic project.

Readings/Bibliography

• Norman, Donald A. 2011. Vivere con la complessità. Translated by V. B. Sala. Milano: Pearson.
• Saffer, Dan. 2009. Designing Gestural Interfaces. 1st ed. Beijing; Cambridge: O’Reilly.. 2013. Microinteractions: Full Color Edition: Designing with Details. 1 edition. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
• Katz, Joel. 2012. Designing Information: Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design. 1 edizione. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
• Cooper, Alan, Robert Reimann, and Dave Cronin. 2007. About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
• Zannoni, M. (2018). Progetto e interazione. Il design degli ecosistemi interattivi. Quodlibet.

Teaching methods

During the development of the course students will be offered contributions/lectures lasting about 1-2 hours each, held by the professors and/or by any guests.

The course will also make use of a system for reviewing the students' work envisaged in the two Modules, depending on the used teaching approach. The revisions can be for single group or collective, depending on the didactic calendar of the course. There are also peer to peer reviews between students and the sharing of models/assessment tools. The Professors will communicate the nature, methods and timing at the beginning of the teaching activity.

Students will be asked to carry out individual and/or group works depending on the correspondence to the more research or design component envisaged by the course.

Attendance is compulsory. It is surveyed by the teachers in class and students absent in more than 30% of the lessons will not be admitted to the final evaluation

Assessment methods

Presentation and discussion of the final outputs foreseen for all the modules of the integrated course (final presentation of the works). Each of the results in the teaching modules will be evaluated. The criteria will be communicated by the Professors of the didactic modules. The various evaluations will form an overall final judgment of each student (in part, the result of collective work and, in part, of individual work).

Teaching tools

IOL: teacher-student communications; loading teaching materials; student material deliveries; forum with students / community

TEAMS: virtual classroom

MIRO: for brainstorming and other forms of shared planning;

Presentations/slideshows;

Collaboration with external structures (labs, libraries, etc.);

Participation in conferences, talks, exhibitions and/or educational visits.

Office hours

See the website of Michele Zannoni

See the website of Roberto Saponelli