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Industrial design creates the physical products we use. You will learn design process, sketching and CAD, materials and manufacturing, ergonomics and the classics of product design thinking.

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Product Design: The Delft Design Approach

TU Delft's six-step design methodology, moving from studying users in their own context to framing a design challenge, generating ideas, developing concepts and testing them. Teaches named, reusable methods rather than one-off tricks, with assignments applied to your own brief.

beginner🇬🇧

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Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals

Encyclopaedic reference covering seventy-plus production processes grouped as forming, cutting, joining and finishing, plus a directory of fifty materials. Each entry gives cost, speed, tooling and environmental trade-offs, so you can judge whether a form you drew can actually be made. Covers the materials-and-manufacturing pillar with real process constraints rather than a glossary. Teaches a selection framework (process capability vs. geometry, volume and cost) that transfers to processes invented after publication.

intermediate🇬🇧
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Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers

The standard reference for product design drawing, written by TU Delft's design-drawing faculty. Covers perspective construction, ellipses, shadow and reflection, material rendering and marker technique, with worked examples from practising designers and enough structure to build a daily sketching habit.

beginner🇬🇧
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Designing for People

Dreyfuss founded American industrial design practice; here he explains how he worked with clients, observed users in situ, and built the anthropometric figures Joe and Josephine. Establishes ergonomics and human factors as the discipline's foundation rather than styling.

beginner🇬🇧
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The Design of Everyday Things (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Norman's account of why physical products confuse the people using them: affordances, signifiers, mapping, constraints and feedback. Gives you the vocabulary to diagnose a bad door, stove or remote control and argue for a specific fix.

beginner🇬🇧

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Dieter Rams: Ten Principles for Good Design

Vitsoe's primary-source presentation of Rams' ten principles, each with the Braun and Vitsoe products that produced it. Short, freely licensed, and the origin of most secondhand 'good design' checklists - worth reading in the original with the examples attached.

beginner🇬🇧
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