Designing Products of the Future

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• Create a structure for what you're going to create. Identify a problem, investigate the opportunity area, and collect background information on the subject.
• Investigate the various levels in order to produce a product that is both durable and impactful. Design your infrastructure and make sure it's self-contained.
• Forecasting is the next step, which involves detecting trends, risks, opportunities, and drivers.
• Learn everything there is to know about your product's potential. To design a strategy for prospective problems, place your item in both a desired and an unfavorable future.
• Extend your product's horizons. Consider where your creation will be in a few decades.
• Develop a hypothesis on how to connect the dots by identifying your target audience and their purchasing habits.
• Imagine the future of your artifact and paint a future vision for it.
• Discover how speculative design can change the way we think about product creation.
• After you've finalized your design, the last step is to put it into action.
• Create a roadmap for your idea and use the metrics to assess where you want to go with it.

Syllabus:

1.  Introduction

   • Introduction

   • Influences and Topic Intro

   • What Will We Do in This Course?
      

2.  Mapping the Futures Space

   • Starting Point and Goal

   • Futures Wheel: Mapping Out Context and Consequences

   • Futures Cone: Categorizing Futures
      

3.  Scenario: Building Futures World

   • Components

   • Detail World

   • The Journey
      

4.  Artifact: Designing a Future Artifact

   • Detailing the Feature List for Future Artifact

   • Create Your Mood Board

   • Zero to One. Prototype Your Artifact
      

5.  Backcasting

   • Roadmap and Routes

   • Root Cause Analysis
      

6. Final Project

   • Designing Products of the Future