Designing for People

Education facts

Code: 5ID255

The course consists of four modules: **Project Preparations, 1.5 credits** Here, the student receives an introduction to user studies, their origins, and current use in design practice. The module includes methods for user studies, observations, and activity analysis, as well as a comprehensive introduction to qualitative and quantitative methods for collecting user data. Learning Goals: ELO 1 **Theme Week: Sociopolitical Issues, Movements, and Contexts, 1.5 credits** The module focuses on exploring societal sociopolitical issues and phenomena relevant to the design field. The module constitutes a theme that spans across the years of the bachelor's program. Learning Goals: ELO 2 **Project Work, 6 credits** Here, the student performs a design project with a real-world context in collaboration with an external partner from industry, the public sector, or a non-profit organization. The student receives training in independently managing complex design-related problems based on real situations. In the project work, the student develop their ability to work creatively with design and to use sketching and modeling techniques in a communicative way. The project is mainly structured according to current design process models. Learning objectives: ELO 3, ELO 4, ELO 5, ELO 6, ELO 7 **Project Communication, 3 credits** In the final module, the student will process the project work to present its process and results both visually and verbally to an interested public, and reflect on what such a result might mean from a sustainability perspective. Here, the student will also reflect on their own learning. Learning objectives: ELO 6, ELO 8, ELO 9

Entry requirements

In addition to general eligibility, admission to the course requires at least 15 credits completed in the Bachelor's Programme in Industrial Design (DGIND), or equivalent and English B/6

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Designing for People

  Umeå University

  Umeå

  Start date: 25 March 2027

  End date: 6 June 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %