Spring 2025

Overview of the intellectual properties and a basic vocabulary for understanding of copyright, trademark, and patents for creatives and entrepreneurs.

Advanced methods and techniques for applying human-centered design to the development and launch of products and enterprises. Includes workshop design and facilitation, co-creation and synthesis.

One-week off-campus residential. Applied, intensive workshop format focused on solutions for real-world problems with input from industry experts.

Overview of design language, process and product. Build fluency in applying core visual principles and design-based problem-solving techniques. Explore historical and contemporary design issues.

Introduction to branding; brand design and development of a brand identity; brand attributes; visual aspects; social and ethical implications; curation of brand identity.

Design processes for products, services, systems and policies that lead to effective solutions for diverse audiences.

Fundamental methods, concepts and techniques necessary to design useful, functional and delightful digital products--including hands-on application of user research, Figma and team leadership.

Overview of general business and management concepts and techniques that builds theoretical and analytical fluency and identifies and examines leadership and managerial challenges.

Front-end (user-facing) development of interactive web pages; tools, techniques and practice.

Introduces concepts of interaction design through the medium of physical computing. Students learn the technological basics to create innovative, interactive experiences in physical objects.

The intersection of fashion and extended reality in digital fashion design, retail and showcasing experiences and production of sharable and co-creative art.

Overview of modern XR programming practices; 3D UX, physics forces, animations, behaviors, visual effects and spatial audio; advancements in XR hardware and software APIs.

Data sources, statistical techniques for mining useful information across industries and the design of innovative data applications.

Human intelligence; machine learning; augmentation of human intelligence through machine learning; and the development of augmented intelligence systems.

Faculty-mentored project. Demonstrate individual and simultaneous skills and competency across fields and within cross-functional, cross-disciplinary teams.

A project-based course that uses human-centered design research and methodologies to identify and explore a specific problem space or context.

Discipline-specific, cross-disciplinary and shared approaches to exploring visual, written and spoken storytelling using digital modalities. Topics include communication theory, narrative structures and content creation.

Develop the capacity to found, run and scale a fashion business. Work with industry partners to engage problems and needs in their market segment.

Selected topics in design, business and technology.