Product Design
The architect designs the building; the product designer designs everything that fills it — and the discipline has its own deep method. This elective covers the whole arc: what product (industrial) design is and the principles of good design; the design process and design thinking; human factors, anthropometry and the psychology of use; materials and the manufacturing processes that make a product real; and the meaning, aesthetics and sustainability that decide whether it deserves to exist at all.
The syllabus
Five units, from a need to a finished product.
Transcribed from the official B.Arch syllabus. All 5 units are live as full interactive lessons, each with original diagrams, a self-assessment quiz and a studio task.
Course outcomes
What you should be able to do after completing all five units (CO1–CO6, from the syllabus).
Understand the scope of product design and the principles of good design.
Apply the product-design process and design-thinking methodology.
Apply human factors, anthropometry and usability to a product.
Select materials and manufacturing processes appropriate to a product.
Analyse a product's meaning, aesthetics and sustainability.
Create and present a resolved product-design concept.
Topics follow the published B.Arch elective syllabus (L1 · T0 · S5; 200 marks) — the dedicated, deeper companion to the furniture unit of Interior Design. Every diagram is original Studio Matrx work; Indian anthropometric figures are given only where verified (and otherwise flagged). We flag the myths — design is not styling, ergonomics is not “the average man”, and an affordance is not the same as a signifier.
Design the things that fill the building.
Good design, the design process, ergonomics, materials and sustainability. Read the five units, study the diagrams, then test yourself.
Studio Matrx is a tribute to Amogh N P. The curriculum is free, forever.