DESIGN 100 : Design Methods and Processes 1
Creative Arts and Industries
2025 Semester One (1253) (30 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
The main focus of this course is How We Design, making it the perfect companion course for Design 101, which focusses on Why We Design.
- Design Methods and Process: The semester will begin with an introduction to design terms, design process, various methods of practice and how to apply them to design problems.
- Design Technologies: Students will experiment with visualisation and fabrication technologies through a combination of instructional tutorials and artefact development
- Design Prototyping and Testing: Students will develop and refine designs through rapid and iterative prototyping, testing, and refining.
- Design Solutions: Students will resolve, demonstrate and justify a project based on a brief.
- Design Research: Students will reflect on research and development processes to investigate design issues and communicate findings.
Capabilities Developed in this Course
Capability 1: | People and Place |
Capability 3: | Knowledge and Practice |
Capability 4: | Critical Thinking |
Capability 5: | Solution Seeking |
Capability 6: | Communication |
Capability 7: | Collaboration |
Capability 8: | Ethics and Professionalism |
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate Familiarity with key methodologies and design tools and their application in design research and development contexts. (Capability 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2 and 8.2)
- Demonstrate familiarity with framing and reframing a design question based on observation and evidence. (Capability 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.2, 8.1 and 8.2)
- Demonstrate a familiarity with iteratively developing a design project while documenting a process and its evolution through successive prototypes. (Capability 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3)
- Demonstrate an ability to critically reflect on process while seeking input from stakeholders in a given project. (Capability 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4)
Assessments
Assessment Type | Percentage | Classification |
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Induction Exercises | 10% | Individual Coursework |
Technical Project 1: Graphics | 20% | Individual Coursework |
Technical Project 2: Lighting | 20% | Individual Coursework |
Technical Project 3: Digital and Analogue Prototyping | 20% | Individual Coursework |
Group Project: Design Brief | 15% | Group & Individual Coursework |
Project Documentation | 15% | Individual Coursework |
6 types | 100% |
Assessment Type | Learning Outcome Addressed | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
Induction Exercises | ||||||||||
Technical Project 1: Graphics | ||||||||||
Technical Project 2: Lighting | ||||||||||
Technical Project 3: Digital and Analogue Prototyping | ||||||||||
Group Project: Design Brief | ||||||||||
Project Documentation |
The grade of DNC (did not complete) is assigned a grade point value of zero and is used when a student fails to complete compulsory coursework despite earning over 50%, or when coursework is incomplete and a fail grade would misrepresent their achievement.
Teaching & Learning Methods
Workload Expectations
This course is a standard 30-point course and students are expected to spend 25 hours per week involved in each 30 point course that they are enrolled in.
For this course, you can expect per week 1 hours of lecture contact, 2 hours of tutorial instruction, 3 hours of studio contact, 4 hours of preparatory reading and planning for studio and tutorials and 15 hours of work on assignments, skills development and folio development.
Delivery Mode
Campus Experience
Attendance is required at scheduled activities including tutorials and studios to receive credit for components of the course.
Lectures will be available as recordings. Other learning activities including tutorials will be available as recordings.
The course will include live online events including group discussions.
Attendance on campus is required for the presentation of your final project.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.
Learning Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
- BYOD - All new students enrolled in a Bachelor of Design or Design conjoint degree should come to class with their own laptop. This is so students will have the core learning tools available in and outside of class. It also means students can increase their independence and have better control of a professional device to stimulate creativity and simplify their design process. Working with ya personal laptop during the Design degree will prepare students for the realities of working as a designer after graduation. The highly recommended, recommended and minimum specifications for a laptop are listed here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/creative/current-students/courses/design/courses-design-bring-your-own-device.html
Students will develop an online folio to be maintained throughout their course. Students will be guided in class to select appropriate tools and services to host personal folios for reflection and presentation.
- Sketch pad and drawing materials: It is good practice to be able to quickly record ideas through writing and sketching as well as collecting and pasting items found that are relevant or inspiring.
- Materials and software needed to complete projects to highest standards are free or will be provided by the course. These include access to software (Rhino, fusion 360, etc), machines (Laser cutter, 3D printer), and materials (Mdf, card stock, etc).
Health & Safety
Students are given an overview of health, safety, and wellness policies and procedures during the first week of their first year. Concerns should first be addressed with a Course Director/Coordinator, technician, lecturer, or tutor. Further information and incident report forms are available on the University website.
Students must complete induction training before accessing the Design Lab to ensure safety and competence. Only authorised access is allowed, and students may not permit entry to visitors. Equipment use is restricted to those who have received proper training, and workspaces should be kept clean with tools properly stored and shut down after use. Eating, drinking anything other than bottled water, and inappropriate attire, such as open footwear, are not permitted, and personal protective equipment may be required.
Student Feedback
At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.
Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.
Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.
- Fablab inductions and basic workshop safety training schedules will be prescribed and allocated in week 01.
- Selected students from each experiment stream will share their learnings to the next group of students undertaking the same experiment.
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework, tests and examinations as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against electronic source material using computerised detection mechanisms. Upon reasonable request, students may be required to provide an electronic version of their work for computerised review.
Class Representatives
Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Where a student faces unavoidable personal circumstances (e.g. illness or a death in the family) that mean the student is unable to submit a component of coursework, they may apply for an extension. Requests for extensions of time must be submitted and approved using the online Extension of Time Application form available on Canvas:
https://www.forms.auckland.ac.nz/en/student/creative-arts-and-industries/design-programme-extension-of-time-application-form.html
Students should notify the Course Director/Course Coordinator of their situation as soon as practicable, and preferably before any due date. Notifications received after an assessment due date will be accepted, where this is reasonable, within the context of the course. If possible, students are encouraged to seek medical, counselling or other support from the most appropriate sources.
No extensions will be granted for problems such as accidentally erased computer files, which should always be prevented by keeping backup copies.
Learning Continuity
We undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions, the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. In the event of a disruption, the University and your course coordinators will make every effort to provide you with up to date information via Canvas and the University website.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.
Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.