(1) At present, the urgent tasks facing colleges and universities are as follows: ① Actively promote the reform of personnel training mode, infiltrate quality education into all aspects of education, and integrate quality education, basic theory education and professional education; (2) Integrating knowledge imparting with ability training to promote the all-round and coordinated development of students' morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics; (3) To deepen the reform of teaching methods and means, on the one hand, we should build modern design teaching experimental base and practice base in a planned way, improve teaching conditions and improve teaching effect; On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the cultivation of students' self-study ability and innovative design ability, and provide a reliable foundation for cultivating high-quality talents with innovative design ability.

(2) The history of modern design education in China is short, and there is still a considerable gap compared with the international level. Generally speaking, China has not yet formed a perfect and mature design teaching system with innovation as the core. Specific performance in the following aspects:

① At present, the specialty is too narrow, the professional boundary is too clear, and there is no cross-synthesis.

② Lack of flexible feedback operation mechanism and sound adaptive system, inappropriate professional classification and failure to accurately reflect essential relevance.

Setting courses for different groups of people, teachers' quality and curriculum setting are one-sided to varying degrees.

④ The curriculum system is unreasonable, the educational content is outdated, and the teaching methods and means are backward.

⑤ Lack of inspiration, dialogue and discussion in the teaching process, ignoring the cultivation of students' ability to find, analyze and solve problems and self-study.

⑥ Lack of teachers, backward equipment and unreasonable talent structure.

⑦ Poor school conditions, insufficient funds, weak scientific research, and outstanding problems in enrollment and teaching materials.

The most prominent thing is that the orientation of design education is unreasonable. Design education is regarded as an educational means to serve a certain industry or a certain production field, but it ignores its role in improving the cultural quality of the whole nation and establishing the human lifestyle and cultural ideal in the future society, and ignores its humanistic connotation. Although colleges and universities have done a lot of work in teaching reform in recent years, the design education in China has not completely got rid of the talent training mode under the old system.