Understanding the Scope for a Product Design Education Discourse on Additive Manufacturing

This article focuses on applying the ethics of the product features during the students’ design education. Good/Bad design term is a conventional approach to discuss the ethical/unethical design values of the products. It is noted that different aspects of the product design such as visual information design, interface design, and appearance design have a vital role in judging the levels of ethics in the product. So the students of product design everywhere need to practice the term ethical/unethical design during their study because designers influence society more than they could imagine. This influence can be done by creating an attractive organized appearance and perfect functions that support the ethical brand’s image to the customers. The interviews and discussions were held as a research method with the students of product design in some institutions in addition to some design experts and customers to find out their opinions about the design values that achieve the ethical dimensions in the product design. They can end up with products that carry ethical values in their design. The final article’s results are in the descending order of the different design values according to their importance in emphasizing the ethical aspects of the products, in addition to a checklist including some important questions that can help the designers to be more aware of ethics’ considerations in the product design because ethics is a process of learning, not a process of obedience, and to highlighting the term of ethical designer which in turn reflects on the ethics of customers and societies.

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Globalization and Product Design Education: The Global Studio

Design Management Journal ◽

10.1111/j.1948-7177.2008.tb00014.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 53-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Erik Bohemia ◽

Kerry Harman

Keyword(s):

Product Design ◽

Design Education

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Sustainability and Design Education: The Current Status of Product Design Higher Education in the UK

10.1115/detc2021-68461 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Emelia Delaney ◽

Wei Liu

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Product Design ◽

New Product Development ◽

Design Education ◽

Current Status ◽

Design Stage ◽

Future Research ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Area Of Concern ◽

The Uk

Abstract The aim of sustainability is to fulfil the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations. It is also a rising area of concern within industry, it is therefore important that graduate designers are equipped with the skills to accommodate sustainability issues as well as demands from industry. Additionally, the product design stage during New Product Development has been identified to have the greatest impact on the sustainability of the entire product, however how educated designers are on the topic of sustainability is unclear. An initial literature review has been conducted to investigate design education on sustainability as well as teaching styles. Following this the study identifies and reviews UK Product Design courses to establish the current status of sustainability integration in higher education. The exploration into university prospectuses has found that around half of UK universities implement sustainability in some way, however there are limited courses which dedicate specific modules to sustainability. Additionally, links with industry and accreditation organizations between UK product design courses have been confirmed, but there is no definite information to suggest that the universities use this to aid in the implementation sustainability education. From this review future research directions have been outlined.

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