Design Product experiences for the future
Course Duration: 4 years
The role of a designer today is varied and comprehensive - it combines design with technology to serve business and social needs; entails designing communications to designing businesses.
NMIMS School of Design offers a AICTE approved, four-year undergraduate Design program (B.Des.) in Humanising Technology. This unique program caters to the minutest nuances and gives the multidisciplinary edge to the ever-evolving field of design. Our well-trained, visionary faculty ensure that our students are trained for a bright career in Design.
This program has a generalist two-year foundation, progressing to a focus on designing seamless product experiences with emergent technologies such as Internet of things (IOT), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented reality (AR) in the third year and professionalising the learnings in the fourth year.
Humanising Technology is the act of design to make technology accessible, usable and delightful to the users.
Program Objectives
The graduated students of B.Des. (Humanising Technology) will be proficient in:
Unique features
Curriculum design
Our curriculum is a progressive tenet of using Design as a focal point to address problems considering the interpretations from cognitive, behavioural sciences and business. More importantly, considering technology as an opportunity and an enabler.
The module (course) structure facilitates multi-skilling in graphic, product, motion and digital design as well multi-disciplinary capabilities such as coding, Scientic research writing, business, psychology and sociology of the user and technology to equip the design student to take a trans-disciplinary, holistic and user-centered approach when designing solutions.
The curriculum is pillared on four multidisciplinary fundamentals- design, technology, sciences and business. Modules in these fundamentals fall under two basic categories ‘Design centric’ and ‘Design allied’. Below is an indicative representation of the module structure of the Program. The detailed version is available on the link – ‘Module structure
Design |
Technology |
Science |
Business |
Sketching |
Interface Design |
Social Narratives |
Business Communication |
Visualization |
User Experience |
Cultural Narratives |
Marketing |
Typography |
Creative Programming |
Sensorial Studies |
Project Management |
Videography |
Web/Mobile Experience |
Behavioural Studies |
Creative Entrepreneurship |
Information Design |
Connected Environment |
Usability Studies |
Managing Finances |
User Research |
Immersive Experience |
Ethnography |
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Story Telling |
Experience Design |
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Learning goals
The curriculum distribution over four years of B. Des. in Humanising Technology gives our students the much-needed robust foundation, moving on gradually to focus on designing seamless, user centric experiences enabled and opportune by emergent technology.
Years
1 & 2
(Foundation program)
Develops skill sets for multiple streams such graphic, product, animation, interaction design. Advances sensibilities to visualise using 2D, 3D to 5D sensorial narrative methods whilst congregating to a transdisciplinary mind-set by engaging in modules in technology, business, behavioural, cognitive & social studies, scientific approach to research and communication when problem solving.
Year
3
(Project centric application)
Focuses on problem solving in a project model. Students undergo an internship in the social sector to learn the ropes in the real world. The year also includes modules for designing real scenario experiences opportune and enabled by emergent technology such as web and mobile, Internet of things, virtual reality and such others.
Year
4
(Professionalising)
This is dedicated to maturing the learning with a professional perspective. A six-month internship in an industry of their choice is followed by a capstone degree project and dissertation.
Pedagogy
Career Opportunities
With design dominating, most of the sectors today, it spells good news for budding designers. Thanks to our intensive, immersive and all-encompassing curriculum, aided with the necessary practical training, our graduates can easily land a lucrative job in the consulting, hospitality, IT, banking, healthcare, education, tourism and other sectors. The opportunities are endless. For those wanting to fly solo, the scope is limitless. While the world of start-ups beckon, they can even opt for a master’s degree in design in India or abroad given the awarded degree is internationally recognised as well
Possible Job Profiles
Seeking admission to B.Des. ( Humanising Technology)
Eligibility
The candidate must have passed 10+2 or equivalent examination including International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB certificate / & D.P. awarded candidates are eligible only if they have cleared their IB exam with total of 24 credits compulsory having passed 3 HL & 3 SL mandatorily in any stream from a recognized Board and should have obtained a minimum of 60% aggregate marks.
Admission Process
Admission to B.Des is through NMIMS-DAT.
Please refer the "Important dates" & "Instruction sheet" for details.
Labs & Studios
Learning in a design school is experiential, mostly by ‘learn by doing’. Hence relevant and state of art equipment in engaging Labs and studios is necessary to tinker, fail and learn
Hostel
The NMIMS Deemed to be University (as per UGC Norms) hostel facility includes two full-fledged hostels and three rented residential accommodations (taken care of by the University itself) in Mumbai, separately for boys and girls. Students are provided with all necessary facilities in the hostel along with some value-added services as well.
Hostel application forms are available on our website. Students are required to submit the hostel application form and hostel fee along with all necessary documents. Hostel allotment list is provided on our website 3 days before the start of classes.
Hostel Application Form - Click here
Internships/NGO Reviews
Internship is an integral and compulsory part of the curriculum for the B. Des. (Humanising Technology) Program. A student of this program is required to complete two internships with duly evaluated outcomes. The first one is a month-long NGO internship after the completion of year II and the second is a 6-month industry internship after the completion of year III. The objective is to provide the student an opportunity to apply their academic learning in a professional context, assess their capabilities and skill sets and return to academics with a renewed intent.
NGO Internship
On completion of the two-year foundation program, the student is expected to complete a month-long internship in social design and research at a verified NGO. It facilitates the application of the learnings in the foundation years in the real-life context, often in the marginalised communities. It also instils the awareness amongst the students about the power ‘Design’ has to create a measurable social value and impact.NGO Internship is one such opportunity at the beginning of the third year of this program. It is month long and the student is expected to work in location on a NGO suggested or a self-initiated projected to experience design impacting society and explore socially relevant innovations.
Best Wishes to the School to continue the great work for many more years!
Students Review
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3rd Year, B.Des.(Humanising Technology)
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3rd Year, B.Des.(Humanising Technology)
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3rd Year, B.Des.(Humanising Technology)
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2nd Year, B.Des. (Humanising Technology)
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2nd Year, B.Des. (Humanising Technology)
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1st Year, B.Des. (Humanising Technology)