Observing the importance that ‘design’ could bring to pedagogy and the integration of mainstream disciplines in engineering and the arts, PES University has decided to set-up a B.Design Program. PES University B.Design Program aims to be the best and the first-batch has commenced from August 2016. The UG program offers a four-year Bachelor of Design (B.Des) degree in three streams, Product Design, Interaction Design and Communication Design. The first-year is common to all the three streams. The B.Design Program has a growing team of distinguished faculty members who bring in a wealth of professional experience in addition to having graduated from premier institutes.
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WHY CHOOSE TO PURSUE A B.DESIGN PROGRAM?
Despite being a preferred service destination, India also has a strong manufacturing base that is being promoted very well through the ‘Make in India’ campaign. Experts believe that it is a matter of time before ‘Make in India’, foremost means ‘Designed in India’. The design degrees on offer prepare students with the skills to design tangible and intangible products and making these within India would mean contributing to the national cause.
If you appreciate the arts and crafts, tried your hand at them, did well and are mulling about why these skills may not be integral to mainstream career options, then pursuing a design degree could be that first-step forward for you. More specifically, if you have nurtured a constructive discontent, starting with thinking why not the products you see around could be better in terms of their usability, appeal, affordability etc and try come up with alternatives, product design could be your calling. Similarly, if you see ways in which interactions between humans and their environment can be better, interaction design could be your calling. The recent smart initiatives that the government is promoting also increase the need for Interaction Design and Communication design.
FACILITIES
Ample space is available for facilities that enable students to ideate, explore novel concepts, digitize these to simulate appearance and performance under different test situations and prototype concepts as feasible.
- Classrooms with audio-visual recording and streaming facilities
- Library with a good collection of books spanning a broad-range of design and related topics, national and international design journals and access to several e-libraries.
- Carpentry Shop
- Fab Lab/Design Innovation Studio with several prototyping and rapid prototyping facilities
- Art Studio
- Animation Studio (2D and 3D)
- Digital Sculpting Studio
- Form Studio (3D)
- Photography Studio with lighting equipment
ABOUT THE THREE DESIGN STREAMS
PRODUCT DESIGN
Products are inseparable manifestations of art, science and engineering, ideally without an argument of primacy among them. Product Design is an iterative creative process of specifying products that meet human needs responsibly. Aligned to the vision and mission of PES University, the objective of the Product Design stream is to facilitate the development of skills in students that will enable them to solve/resolve problems facing humanity through product interventions. As the definition of product can be broad, the program also is broad-based and allows students to choose an area/sector/segment to work on which they prefer to pursue in the later years of their degree and pursuing a career.
INTERACTION DESIGN
The Interaction Design stream will focus on designing interactions and not just interfaces. Interactions looks beyond the immediacy and seen within a larger societal context. Few courses in these specializations include User Experience, Usability Evaluation, Interaction Technologies and Media. Apart from the main courses, students will have electives (credit and non-credit courses), which will strengthen their abilities as an Interaction Designer.
COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Communication Design is a mixed discipline between design and inTS IN DESIGN ALSO LEAD SUCH COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVES CULMINATING IN STARTING UP THEIR OWN PRACTICE AND BECOMING ENTREPRENEURS. HOWEVER, STUDENTS COULD ALSO CHOOSE TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT PES UNIVERSITY CONSISTENTLY ATTRACTS FROM PLACEMENTS.
OPPORTUNITIES ON GRADUATING WITH B.DESIGN DEGREE?
On graduating from the product design stream, the roles that may be offered in the industry could be Industrial Designer, Design Engineer, Design Manager, Product Designer etc. These offers typically depend on the student’s performance (generally evaluated over a portfolio of work alongside other considerations that the industry may set) and related prior work-experience.
The typical industry roles for Interaction Design and Communication Design graduates are UI, UX designer, Interaction designer, Graphic Designer etc. Several E-commerce based start-ups that are also increasing in number locally and in India are in great need for communication and interaction designers. A trend which works to the advantage for Interaction and Communication Designers is that more companies now believe that using these designers early in the product/service development process can change the course of conversations and add considerable value to the products and the organization eventually.