Industrial Design

Overview

Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design emphasizes both the traditional values behind industrial design and current trends in the profession as students progress from creating developmental drawings, to three-dimensional mock-ups and models, to working drawings and prototypes that incorporate manufacturing considerations.

Graduates with Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design will be prepared to:

• develop material ideas with facility, clarity and rigor

• conceptualize and develop ideas imaginatively and accurately in three dimensions

• effectively communicate their design intent to disparate audiences (including clients, users and fabricators)

• apply knowledge of user experience, human factors, applied ergonomics, contextual inquiry, user preference studies and usability assessments in the design development process

• understand the contribution their work is making to the profession and the discipline

• exercise collaborative skills for working across disciplines and in multidisciplinary fields