Felix's Documentation of Teaching at NYUAD

Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

• Attendance list
• Reminder: Felix will be traveling (BUT Esteban will take over AND there is still the homework to do…)
• Access to lectures and case-study presentation template via NYU classes/ressources
• In preparation for your case-study presentations Felix will share his Golden Rules for Presentations next week.

• What is this course about? ⇒ What is Design? (15 min, short overview by Felix)
• Felix's summary on Moodboards (5 min)

• We talk through one/two example GanttCharts from students. (10 min)

• The iterative design process (10 min)
  • Opportunity Identification
  • Brief and specification
  • Concept design
  • Design development
  • Detail design
  • Production
• The iterative Cycle

• Students present their posters with the three different ideas (5 minutes each ⇒ 30 minutes).

1. Create a simple mind map around the selected field of interest/the topic we picked for you during todays class. Add symbols or images along with your keywords. (Also check the tutorial “How to create a great mind map”. Research Methods for Product Design, p.66–67).
2. Create two mood boards. Those should visualise your idea of an audio object. The size of each document should be 30×21 cm (So that it fits to your sketch book):
   • 1x picture collage
   • 1x word collage