ELEC-C9821 - Design Thinking and Advanced Prototyping, Lecture, 11.1.2023-9.6.2023

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  Design Thinking and Advanced Prototyping is a bachelor’s level course primarily intended for the 2^nd year DSD (Digital Systems and Design) major students. The course format is a team project, weekly exercises and lectures.

  The course deepens the students’ understandings of electronic prototyping, which they have gained in the Design Thinking and Electronic Prototyping course. The intent is to create technically more sophisticated and internet-connected prototypes in a hands-on and iterative manner. Special focus will be given to the user-centred definition of requirements during the prototyping phase, and expressive communication of useful electronic design concepts.

  During the 2023 spring the recommended way to take the course is a 8 ECTS wide project (5 credits from the DTAP and 3 credits via elective part). The project will continue from the beginning of the Period III until the end of Period V.

  Lectures and Design Workshops

  On Wednesdays 09:15 - 12:00 in the Learning Hub Atrium - the glass-walled open space at the end of the corridor in Maarintie 8

  Course leaflet 

  Here is a PDF leaflet about the course with additional details on the course, including the schedule.

  
  

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• Lecture slides

• Exercises
  Circuit Design Exercises

  1. Designing a circuit schema with an EDA (KiCad)
  2. Designing a PCB layout with an EDA (KiCad)
     
  3. Preparing files for manufacturing
     
  4. Etching a PCB 
     
  5. Soldering components on a PCB
     
  6. Testing a PCB

  
  

• Assignments

• Literature
  Lepekhin, A., Borremans, A., Ilin, I., & Jantunen, S. (2019). A Systematic Mapping Study on Internet of Things Challenges. 2019 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering Research & Practices for the Internet of Things (SERP4IoT), 9–16. https://doi.org/10.1109/SERP4IoT.2019.00009 [PDF]
  

  Rowland, C. (2018). UX and Service Design for Connected Products (Insight Report June 2018). IoT UK. https://iotuk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/UX-and-Service-Design-IoTUK.pdf

  Laurenti, R., Sinha, R., Singh, J., & Frostell, B. (2015). Some pervasive challenges to sustainability by design of electronic products – a conceptual discussion. Journal of Cleaner Production, 108, 281–288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.08.041 [PDF]
  

• Design Method Animations
  Interview

  
  
  

  Observation

  
  

  
  

  Design Probes

  
  

• Custom Session Topics
  Please, use the discussion forum below to coordinate the topics for your custom sessions.

  Here is the schedule:

  Wed 26.4.  Team 7 (Huy, Zarin, David, Yeonwoo) [Cognitive bias slides] + Team 1, (Joel, Olivia, Reetta, Thanh) [Sensor slides]

  Wed 3.5. Team 2 (Kabir, Rafal, Beatriz, Thuy) [Colour in Design] + Team 6 (Apollo, Hanjemma, Anna, Hoang, Gleb) [Over-reliance on tech]
  

  Wed 10.5. Team 3 (Siim, Saku, Harvey, Hung) [Intuition in UI design]
  

  Wed 17.5. Team 4 (Viktor, Deepanker, Aaryan, Nghia) [Cross-cultural design]
  

  Wed 24.5. Team 5 (Tsu-Heng, Dovlat, Himanshu, Rafael, Tom) [Nielsen's heuristics]
  

• Presence