Course Code: 
INDD 443
Course Period: 
Autumn
Course Type: 
Core
Theory: 
2
Practice: 
0
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
2
ECTS: 
2
Course Language: 
İngilizce
Course Coordinator: 
Ayşem G. BAŞAR
Courses given by: 
Ayşem G. BAŞAR
Course Assistants : 
Melis KARACA SERT
Course Objectives: 
The aim of the course is to analyze the tools which are used during the product design and development processes, business and strategy models, and the design capabilities of the firms’ by the chosen sample case studies.
Course Content: 

Analyzing the case studies about the use of industrial design in firms as a source of competitive advantage, in order to exist and compete in global market and economy.

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing B:Presentation, C:Homework D: Project

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

1) Can establish and understand the relationship between industrial design and other environmental design disciplines.

 

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

2) Investigate methods of defining the design problem and learn about systematic problem solving methods

 

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

3) Can explain the contents of design processes in industrial product design

 

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

4) Develop research and observation skills.

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

5) Discuss the theoretical and theoretical approaches to explain the situations they may encounter in all areas of professional practice and establish theoretical approaches.

1,2,4,5,8

1,2,3

A,B,C,D

Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

Introduction to course and meeting.

 

2

The concept of design management and historical development.

 

3

New product development. To discuss the topic “ to re-design”

Design process- production process 

 

4

Strategy concept. What is strategy?

 

5

Strategic management of design. Herman Miller

 

6

The use of design management in firms – analyzing the case studies

 

7

MIDTERM –

 

8

Creating value through design.

 

 

9

Using design as a source of competitive advantage.

 

 

10

Operational design management

 

 

 

11

Design and brand management.

 

12

Design and marketing policies.

 

13

Design Management in Turkish Firms – analyzing the samples.

 

14

“Design Management in Global firms – analyzing the samples.

 

15

 Makeup exam

 

 

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES

Textbook

 

Additional Resources
  • Tasarım Yönetimi

Brigitte Borja de Mozota, MediaCat, 2005, İstanbul.

  • Design; History, Theory and Practice of Product Design

Bernard E. Bürdek, Birkhauser, 2005.

  • Booz Allen and Hamilton (2001),“New product Management” Journal of Engineering

 

  • Bruce, M. and Bessant, J. (2002). Design in Business: Strategic Innovation Through Design, Essex, Pearson Education Limited.
  • Brown, S. L., and Eisenhardt, K. M. (1995). “Product development: Past research, present findings, and future directions”. Academy of Management Review, 20(2): 343-
  • 378.
  • Cagan, J. and Vogel, C. M. (2002). Creating Breakthough Products, Financial Times-Prentice Hall
  • Chen, G. (1998). “The Advanced Manufacturing Production Methods and Management Model”, Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing House, Beijing
  • Cooper, R., Junginger, S. And Lockwood, T. (2011). The Handbook of Design Management, Berg Publishers.
  • Er, Ö., Er, H. A. and Manzakoğlu, B. T. (2010). Tasarım Yönetimi: Tanım, Kapsam, Uygulama, TÜSĠAD Rekabet Stratejileri Dizisi Rapor no: 13, TÜSĠAD - Sabancı Ü. Rekabet Forumu Yayınları.
  • Vogel, C. M., Cagan, J. and Boatwright, P. (2011). The Design of Things to Come, Prentice Hall.
  • Design in Business: Strategic Innovation through design

Bruce M & Bessant J., Pearsan Education Limited, Essex, 2002.

  • Re-İmagine – İşinizi yeniden yaratın-

Tom Peters, Boyner yayınları, 2003

  • Rekabet Stratejisi

Michael Porter, Sistem Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 2000

 

Journals; Design Management Journal, Harvard Business Review.

 

Assessment

ASSESSMENT

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-terms

       1

40

Quizzes

-

-

Homework

       3

20

Total

 

60

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE

       1

40

CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE

 

 

Total

 

100

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

 

1

 Learn to use the different disciplines’ methods within the concepts and theories of design field and also to determine and solve the encountered problems of design.

 

 

 

X

 

 

2

To constitute contemporary technological knowledge that is required  in the field of design and to access the level of managing.

 

 

 

X

 

 

3

To constitute and interpret the historical knowledge required in the field of art and design.

 

 

X

 

 

 

4

To be sufficient to design product, system and processes within the discipline of Industrial Design.

 

 

 

 

X

 

5

To study interdisciplinary.

 

 

X

 

 

 

6

To have and to implement the knowledge of materials and production techniques within the field of design.

X

 

 

 

 

 

7

To be able to think 2D and  3D and also to be able to expose visually.

X

 

 

 

 

 

8

To   achieve the knowledge of different disciplines such as Management, Law, Communication, Engineering,  Sociology, Physics, Anthropology and Human Sciences in order to  be able to understand, interpret and utilize within the field of Industrial design.

 

 

 

X

 

 

9

To have the ethical consciousness and responsibility in design.

 

 

X

 

 

 

From ENTAK Program Outcomes correspond to PO7, PO10, and PO12

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 15x Total course hours)

15

2

30

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

15

1

15

Mid-terms

1

2

2

Homework

3

2

6

Final examination

1

3

3

Total Work Load

 

 

56

Total Work Load / 30 (h)

 

 

2,24

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

2

 

4
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