So, what is Service Design? A reflection by Johanna Weigel
CoID student Johanna Weigel reflects on her learnings from the course Designing for Services, taught by Martina Čaić, Núria Solsona Caba and Anna Viljakainen
Collaborative and Industrial Design MA
The studies in Collaborative and Industrial Design (CoID) focus on design's role in society. Students develop skills enabling them to work as design experts and leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators in a range of roles within industry, business, communities, education, and the public sector.
The Collaborative and Industrial Design major extends industrial design into interaction design, service design, co-design, and other emerging fields where design activities can enhance the quality of the environment and people’s lives. Students learn emphatic, critical, strategic, and technical competencies and capabilities needed in design innovation processes. They are also encouraged to explore novel roles in design and industry. Over the duration of their major studies, students will develop an understanding of design in relation to innovation and contemporary culture, be it local or global, private, or public. The students will also develop an extensive ability to design, lead design projects, and collaborate with designers and non-designers, and thus become able to shape change in communities and companies.
Students and alumni stories
From Classroom to Career: Insights from CoID Alumni: Annaliine Tolonen and Betsy Korhonen
CoID holds an extensive network of professionals across various industries, many of whom have made significant strides in their respective fields. This year, we decided to embark on a mission to reconnect with our alumni—individuals who have successfully transitioned from CoID students to accomplished professionals and know more about their experiences and this transition journey.
Internship in Japan: Working as an Industrial Designer at Mitsubishi Electric
Janne Pärssinen, a master student in Industrial Design, is delighted he had influence on the projects as an intern.
International student's journey of securing jobs in Finland
International Master's student Yijuan Wei shares her story of landing exciting jobs in Finland. With the help of Career Services and persistence in job seeking, she secured an internship in marketing and a summer job in service design.
Courses
Collaborative and Industrial Design's major compulsory and major elective courses. In addition to the major compulsory studies the students choose their track from three options:
Option 1: Service design / Social Design
Option 2: Product design and development
Option 3: Interaction design
Students can also take courses from other study paths to complement their expertise.
User Inspired Design - Knowing
The course is an introduction to the collaborative design competence area. The course gives an introduction to the vocabulary, background and methodology of usability, design ethnography, user experience, co-design, interaction design, service design, accessibility and socially responsible design.
User Inspired Design - Making
The course addresses visual and narrative approaches to human-centred design to illustrate users, use, concepts and contexts for reflective design, collaboration, evaluation and persuasion purposes. The course gives students skills in illustrating and explicating different aspects of products and the use of products and services by visual and narrative means. The students learn to choose, compose and apply design artefacts for different communication purposes that are necessary for designing material and immaterial concepts and solutions for socio-technical systems. They learn how to create design artefacts that invite contributions and create stakeholders' commitment, material for iterating and annotating the progress of design, to adjust the angle of scrutiny by choosing appropriate representations, to clarify complex relationships and isolate critical issues, to convince their audiences and to justify their solutions, and to contextualize design concepts. They learn how to use visual media to support oral communication and how to create self-standing presentations with media such as drawings, photos, videos, interactive demonstrations, physical props or mock-ups.
Design for Social Change - Strategy
Designing for Social Change (DSC) courses provide students basic understanding and competences to build design projects aimed towards social change.
Design for Social Change - Participation
Designing for Social Change (DSC) courses provide students basic understanding and competences to build design projects aimed towards social change.
Designing for Services
Designing for services course addresses application of design competence and engagement in the emerging topics of service design.
Design for Government
Design for Government (DfG) is a practice-based course within the Aalto University’s multi-school Creative Sustainability master’s program available for Collaborative and Industrial Design MA students on the service design track
Interaction Design - User Interfaces
This course teaches the basics of user interface design.
Interaction Design - User Experience
The course will introduce the fundamentals of user experience and interaction design.
Experience Design Project
Experience Design Project (XDP) provides students an opportunity to test their design skills in a company project.
Emergent User interfaces
The course gives an overview of new and emerging UI paradigms that go beyond traditional WIMP interfaces. These include tangible interaction, multimodal interaction (audio, haptic, smell and taste) and the various sensors and sensing techniques and technologies used to implement them.
Programming for Designers
This course is an introduction into programming for designers without requirements for prior programming experience. Its special emphasis is on designing and realizing visions of graphics and interactions in digital products.
Smart Wearables
This course will cover basics of e-textiles and basic machine learning techniques.
Smart Wearables II
Building upon foundational knowledge from the Smart Wearables course, this course explores e-textiles, biomaterials, machine learning, extended reality and user-centered design.
Emerging Designs
The course will enhance students' design understanding and skills through lectures and projects, emphasizing creativity and practical application with input from industry professionals.
Emerging Designs II
During the course, students will apply design to build knowledge of the conceptual propositions, by performing a validation of the concept or a key feature of it.
Product Development Project
Product Development Project (PdP) is a five-period-long course that invites Master’s students from all backgrounds, but mainly engineering, industrial design, and business, to tackle challenges of collaborating companies. The teams form in September and deliver a functioning prototype in the final Gala in May.
Introduction to Algorithmic Design
This introductory course encourages the students to apply computational mode of thinking for their design problems, when applicable.
Research and Inspire
Research and Inspire is an MA level course by Collaborative and Industrial Design programme.
In the course students are guided through the process by which they learn to dive deep in analysing an issue or phenomenon they are interested in, contextualise their interest with relevant past and present cultural and societal changes, and develop insights that communicate the core and context of their interest.
Strategic Style Management and Exploration
The course introduces students to theories and practices for style management and exploration in design.
Coursework showcases
Student coursework from service design / social design, product design and development and interaction design study tracks.
School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University
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