User Centered Design (5cr)

Objective

The students know and master the stages of user-centred product development and design from customer need to product documents. They can apply their education to solve practical problems.

EA-ER EUR-ACE Engineering practice: The students are able to use appropriate methods in a user-centred product development process.

TKNSU Competence in design: The students master the technical documentation of user-centred product development projects. They can take into consideration the whole product life cycle in product development. The students understand the meaning of team work in user-centred product development.

YHTYR Entrepreneurship skills: The students have the ability to look for usable, ergonomical, customer-friendly, sustainable and economically-viable solutions in user-centred product development.

YHTVI Communication skills: The students are able to communicate in product development well, both orally and in writing in their mother tongue and know how to use communications technology in user-centred product development projects. The students are able to work in product development networks.

Content

User-centred design.
Product development and design activities.
The product development process and its stages.

Qualifications

Basics of product development process.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Excellent (5): The student masters the essential knowledge and skills of the course and can apply the knowledge acquired in a critical and innovative manner to demanding user-centred product development tasks.

Very good (4): The student masters the essential knowledge and skills and can apply the knowledge acquired in a critical and innovative manner to user-centred product development tasks.

Good (3): The student masters the essential knowledge and skills and can apply them to user-centred product development tasks:
- can explain the significance of the user-centred product development and innovation process among the other processes in a company
- is familiar with different types of user-centred product development processes and can describe their progress from a product idea to a finished product in the market
- is familiar with the basic project management tools and can implement them in study projects
- can use creative working methods in the innovation and solution of practical problems

Satisfactory (2): The student is familiar with the basic knowledge and terminology but can only satisfactorily apply them to user-centred product development tasks.

Adequate (1): The student identifies the basic knowledge and terminology but can only sufficiently apply them to simple user-centred product development tasks.