School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Design Concept Prototyping
  • Unit Code

    DES3227
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hanadi HADDAD

Description

This unit engages students in the practice of design at a standard consistent with the design industry. Students will work on a number of design briefs using industry standard work practices. These include time and design management strategies, multi-tasking, strict delivery deadlines, client/designer coordination and negotiation, print authorisation and job documentation, as well as budgetary constraints.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass unit DES2114 before being allowed to enrol in the this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded DES4207, DES3207

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop job documentation at a professional standard.
  2. Construct rapid prototypes to express design intention and direction.
  3. Negotiate with clients and suppliers to refine product, communication and service design concepts to produce professional job documentation.
  4. Prepare design prototypes for production to industry standards.

Unit Content

  1. Design and project management strategies.
  2. Working with suppliers, manufacturers and clients to put designs into production.
  3. Visual communication prototypes, product and spatial prototypes and service prototypes.
  4. Supplier and client liaison and job documentation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials are designed to introduce and scaffold skills in managing a design process. Working with real life clients, class activities consist of taking briefs, meetings, and presenting and discussing prototypes. Feedback will be given to students by tutor and clients. This real life experience empowers students to realise the entirety of the design process: from briefing process to negotiation, prototyping, and presentation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseRapid prototypes 40%
ProjectProfessional prototype 40%
JournalJob documentation 20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Design Concept Prototyping
  • Unit Code

    DES3227
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hanadi HADDAD

Description

This unit engages students in the practice of design at a standard consistent with the design industry. Students will work on a number of design briefs using industry standard work practices. These include time and design management strategies, multi-tasking, strict delivery deadlines, client/designer coordination and negotiation, print authorisation and job documentation, as well as budgetary constraints.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass unit DES2114 before being allowed to enrol in the this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded DES4207, DES3207

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop job documentation at a professional standard.
  2. Construct rapid prototypes to express design intention and direction.
  3. Negotiate with clients and suppliers to refine product, communication and service design concepts to produce professional job documentation.
  4. Prepare design prototypes for production to industry standards.

Unit Content

  1. Design and project management strategies.
  2. Working with suppliers, manufacturers and clients to put designs into production.
  3. Visual communication prototypes, product and spatial prototypes and service prototypes.
  4. Supplier and client liaison and job documentation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials are designed to introduce and scaffold skills in managing a design process. Working with real life clients, class activities consist of taking briefs, meetings, and presenting and discussing prototypes. Feedback will be given to students by tutor and clients. This real life experience empowers students to realise the entirety of the design process: from briefing process to negotiation, prototyping, and presentation.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseRapid prototypes 40%
ProjectProfessional prototype 40%
JournalJob documentation 20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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