Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5435 Diploma of Product Design
Course Title: Design products from a brief
Portfolio: Vocational Education
Nominal Hours: 144
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
GRAP9477 |
Brunswick Campus |
TAFE |
515T Creative Industries |
Face-to-Face or Internet |
Term2 2024 |
Course Contact: Robin Blood
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4683
Course Contact Email: robin.blood@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to design a product from a brief that specifies the product’s purpose and target market.
It requires the ability to interpret the product design brief, undertake research, understand target user demographic, develop design options, plan the design process, test and iterate design with users and provide visual concepts to the client before making the product model.
This unit applies to product designers who design and develop products from a brief. Product designers may work independently or as part of a product development team.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Nil
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
VU23428 Design products from a brief |
Elements: |
1.Analyse the product design brief 2.Undertake research to inform the design 3.Develop innovative options 4.Develop design proposal and project plan 5.Deliver concepts to client 6.Realise product design |
Learning Outcomes
Refer to Elements/Performance Criteria
Overview of Assessment
Assessments will be held throughout the course. Assessment will incorporate a range of methods to assess your performance and the application of your knowledge and skills and may include practical tasks, project,direct observation including exploration of and experimentation with techniques,written and/or oral questioning and discussions to assess your knowledge and understanding of this unit.