Advanced Product Design

By the end of this course, you will be able to transform an approved product concept into a manufacturable, reliable, and usable design. You will decompose product functions, generate and select concepts using morphological charts and Pugh matrices, anticipate failures with FMEA, and verify fit through tolerance analysis. You will then optimize your design for assembly, reliability, cost, quality, and safety using Design for X methods; apply cognitive principles such as affordances, Fitts' law, and Hick's law; and craft interactions across touch, voice, and physical controls — evaluating them with heuristic evaluation and A/B testing. What makes this course unique is its insistence on measurable design: every principle comes with quantitative targets — assembly efficiency, risk priority numbers, response-time thresholds, target sizes — so your decisions are defensible, not intuitive. A single running case study, a portable water purifier for rural communities, carries every method from function structure to field validation, alongside cases spanning medical devices, appliances, and consumer electronics. Whether you are an engineer moving toward design or a designer strengthening engineering rigor, you will finish with a complete, integrated toolchain for taking products from concept to user-ready reality.