ID403 System Design completes the undergraduate curriculum of the Industrial Design department. The entire course focuses on conducting a design project where each project group consists of 4-5 students. We assume that students have equipped most (if not all) design skills and knowledge for conducting user research, visual communication, building low and high-fidelity prototypes, and evaluate design outcomes.

Historically the course had a specific theme for each year. This year’s theme is “Family of the Future”. Groups will choose their own topics related with the theme, find interesting problems that people will face in near future (e.g. 2030), and develop innovative solutions. We expect the final outcomes will not only look great but also provide innovative solutions and/or intriguing (or even provocative) messages to the audience.

There is no predefined set of lectures, but we will have several sessions for sharing ideas and feedbacks. While we have no plan to get feedback from external audiences, each group will weekly present their progress to the instructor, teaching assistants, and other groups - and get feedback from them.

Educational goals

• To get hands-on experience of design process and methods for systematically solving complex design problem
• To broaden the scope of design from single tangible product to user experience, service, ecosystem, and business design
• To have experience of service design projects that involve oftentimes conflicting interests of multiple stakeholders (e.g. family members, host and guest, seller and buyer, teacher and student, caretaker and caregiver)

Teaching Methods

• Lecture of design methods and process with/without sample cases
• Tutorials for in-depth discussion with individual team

Main Theme of the 2022 Spring class

• House of the Future
  • Living Lab at W15 as a test-bed for any ideas

Instructor

• Tak Yeon Lee 이탁연 [email protected] +82(10)5843-7981

Teaching Assistants

• ByoungJae Kim 김병재 [email protected] (main TA)
• SeonGyeom Kim 김선겸 (sub TA)
• JuHyoung Park 박주형 (sub TA)

Logistics

• Due to the pandemic situation the course will use a hybrid method
  • If no issue exists, students are expected to attend in-person
  • Students with any of the following issues should inform the instructor and the main TA in advance (via email), and join the Zoom meeting room on time.
    • Self-quarantined for Covid19-related issues
  • Students with other kinds issues (e.g. attending conference; job interview; family issue) can inform the instructor and the main TA in advance (via email), and skip the class (if allowed).