
Learn a practical design process for graphic, product, and branding projects, illustrated by a real-time matchstick project and an award-winning ventilator ui.
Explore the design process of lighting up a matchstick, tracing its journey from stone age fire to modern mechanized manufacturing, and highlight materials, friction material, and features.
Explore features and attributes of a wooden matchstick, including strike surface with red phosphorus and glass, head components like potassium chloride, sulfur, and gelatin, and how friction ignites fire.
Explore the design process through a user profile study of matchsticks, covering surveys, usage patterns, lighting methods, safety, and manufacturing challenges from problem framing to prototyping.
About the Master Class:
This course will teach you about the design process learning with realtime case study of a system which is matchstick manufacturing and supply chain system.
Design philosophy:
As I used to say in my design courses, that design cannot be learned in the rot learning way or Text book learning way that you learn through a chapter and remember some formulas that will yield you some solutions. Design is unique and when different people approach the same we will get different solutions based on the inputs that designer works on.
So design can be approached in the way of learning through the case studies and by doing action on your own to learn yourself.
Learning by doing and learning by action.
Benefits of the Master Class:
Understand the existing system of matchstick manufacturing and supply chain and how to learn mapping the DATA in the system
How to choose relevant stakeholders to interview and continue the research
Find the unknown from the expert domains experts with IDEO methods like ask, observe, speak
Mapping the leveraging points on the system to find the problems and making the case study of the same
Finding the ideations and suitable solutions for the problems which is mapped
How to do primary research and secondary research about the systems level problems like complex wicked systems problem.
How the cost and supply chain are affecting the small scale dealers and wholesale shop keepers in this match stick business
How to take Interesting videos and pictures how to record for certain system and research kind of design projects
How to document the work when it comes to research project