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Inclusive product design training

The University of Cambridge, Engineering Design Centre and Education Consultancy Services offer a 2-day training workshop. The course runs in Cambridge and includes the opportunity to dine in a Cambridge college.

The next course is planned for late October 2013. Book here.

To find out more, please contact Jo Griffiths jg393@cam.ac.uk; +44 (0)1223 748260.

Delegates will:

  • Realise that their capabilities and experiences are vastly different from the end users.
  • Discover answers to the question "what do I actually do?".
  • Learn customer focused evaluation techniques.
  • Identify issues with existing designs and generate improvement ideas.

The majority of modules are taught through interactive exercises, which are based on familiar consumer-products. Each module is approximately one hour long.

Modules

  • Designing a more inclusive world.
  • Product evaluation through personas.
  • Visual aspects of product interaction.
  • Dexterity aspects of product interaction.
  • Cognitive aspects of product interaction.
  • Task analysis and exclusion.
  • Success criteria and requirements capture.
  • Design fixation and concept generation.
  
photograph of the materials used during the training course, which shows one set scales that measure of usability, aesthetics and experience, and one set that measures vision, thinking and dexterity demands

The training course involves interactive exercises to evaluate some cameras.