Toy product design

Toy Product Design is a MIT Public Service Center service learning design undergraduate course offered in the Spring semester of 2008. This course is an introduction to the product design process with a focus on designing for play and entertainment. The website provides access to reading lists, details of previous projects and links to related resources such as media articles.

In this course, students work in small teams of 5-6 members to design and prototype new toys. Students work closely with a local sponsor, an elementary school, and experienced mentors on a themed toy design project. Students will be introduced to the product development process, including determining customer needs; brainstorming; estimation; sketching; sketch modeling; concept development; design aesthetics; detailed design; prototyping; and written, visual, and oral communication. At the end of the course, students present their toy products at the Playsentations to toy designers, engineers, elementary school children and the MIT community.

For more information about this course, see the 2.00B website.

Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .mov, and .mp4.

[Description and screenshot taken from MIT OCW page for this course. (c) MIT used under the terms of their CC-NC-SA license.]

Link: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-00b-toy-product-design-spring-2008/index.htm
Author: David Wallace; Barry Kudrowitz
Publication Date: 2008-05
Source: http://ocw.mit.edu/
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
Rights: Copyright MIT. Use subject to a Creative Commons non-commercial share-alike License and other terms of use. For full details see http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/