What does it take to become a great product designer?
I’m sure there are many answers to this query as there are people who teach and work in the product design field. I particularly like the answer of RSA Animate:
RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigm.
Courses I Teach
I currently teach four classes: three at U.C. Berkeley and one at American University in Paris. Please follow the links below for a description of each class, and visit the appropriate university to sign up.
Cognitive Tools For Interaction Design
Cultural Difference In Product Design
Ethnographic Studies in Product Design
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If you are interested in taking a class at U.C. Berkeley, please contact me directly or Stephen Chang:
Stephen Chang
UC Berkeley Extension
Business, Technology, and Engineering
O: (510) 642-4153
F: (510) 642-6027
schang@unex.berkeley.edu
If you are interested in taking a class at AUP, please contact me directly or the school:
Office of Graduate Admissions
The American University of Paris
6, rue du Colonel Combes
75007 Paris, France
+33 (0)1 40.62.07.20 (tel)
+33 (0)1 47.05.34.32 (fax)
graduateadmissions@aup.edu
You can reach me by email or by telephone at (415) 668-4372.
Product Design Workshop
If you took my “Cognitive Tools For Interaction Design” class in the past, you were asked to develop an idea for a product as part of the class project. Some of these ideas were so good that I expect to see them widely distributed all over the world! But in that class, we only started on the path of product development. I’m considering a follow up class that would take those ideas and move them farther toward reality. I’m considering teaching another class: “Product Design Workshop.” If this is something that you might want to take, please contact me—I would need to show UCB that there is sufficient interest out there for such a class. Thank you!