At present, the development direction of industrial design is roughly as follows:
0 1 product design
computer aided industrial design
03 man-machine interface design
04 exhibition design
05 design composition theory
Among them, the direction of 0 1 03 is mainly mechanical industrial design, supplemented by artistic industrial design.
The direction of 04 05 is mainly art industrial design, not machinery industrial design.
02 direction art and mechanical industry designers mixed together.
If you want to do:
0 1 product designer
Then you should prepare a lot of courses carefully from now on, thinking that product designers are appearance designers, then you are wrong. Product designers must be fully responsible for market positioning, processing technology and materials, processing costs and so on. Product designers take on more responsibilities because products are in close contact with users. This requires that the design of products must fully consider the safety and convenience of use. For example, you need to design the transmission part of a bicycle in the most labor-saving way.
The most important courses are design composition (which is the basis of mastering aesthetic laws), engineering drawing (which is the only way to communicate with the construction department), material mechanics (if you want the chair structure you designed not to break, you must learn it well), theoretical mechanics (you should know that designing a chair requires calculating the forces of many institutions), mechanical design principles, interview materials and processing technology (which involves the processing technology of products). Of course, you must have a certain degree. Only in this way can you communicate your ideas with others.
If you want to engage in:
The same is true of computer-aided industrial design. It takes a lot of time to prepare and learn software in advance.
In fact, computer-aided industrial design is divided into many directions.
Let me give you some examples.
The chair needs force analysis. You can calculate it yourself. But if all parts of the excavator you design need force analysis, you need computer assistance. We can use proE to build the model, and then the software will automatically analyze the stress of each part of the excavator we designed.
B We know that it is also the responsibility of industrial designers to formulate the processing technology, so if the calculation and analysis are too troublesome, we can make software to assist in formulating the processing technology. This is called enterprise information management, and it is also a branch of computer aided industrial design.
The direction C is the worst employment and the worst treatment. Is the so-called modeler. If someone else designs a well-shaped thing and lets you model and render it, this kind of work has no future, because anyone can replace you.
If you want to engage in:
Man-machine interface design, then you just need to observe life more, which is something that accumulates over time. Transfer directly when you wait for the postgraduate entrance examination, no problem.
This industry is very popular at present. Man-machine interface is more than just an interface. Refers to the part where people interact with products. For example, the width, curvature and shape of bicycle handlebars are more labor-saving, the size, ground distance and shape of bicycle stirrups, the size and font of numbers on automobile rearview mirrors and instrument panels, whether they are displayed by hands or electronically in some cases, the height of seats, and so on. In addition, web design also belongs to man-machine interface design.
Man-machine interface design is also an important course for industrial designers in 0 1 direction. It can be said that it is a basic course of product modeling.
04 exhibition design
At present, the market demand is average, but the future is considerable. It can be said that the exterior of the Expo venue is the architect's work, while the interior layout (including lighting, exhibition location, exhibition form, etc.). ) needs to be completed by the exhibition designer. It can be said that this is the direction closest to graphic design. If you turn in this direction, you only need to learn architectural drawing, and you don't need to be able to draw. As long as we can see the degree of architectural drawing, we can directly transform it.
05 design composition and theory
This is a major reserved for academic comrades. If you are interested in theoretical research, you can try it, but I don't recommend it. This graduate seems to be a teacher.
The employment of industrial design is very good at present. How good is it? I wrote it in another answer. In our senior year, the students in our class have signed up in bits and pieces: Midea Group, China Aerospace Industry Group, Xugong, Yuchai, GAC, Chow Tai Fook Jewelry, Hengan, Dongfang Electric, Tencent, Changan Automobile, oppo, BYD, Lake Electric, FAW-Volkswagen, Haier, Hisense and other white power and heavy industry groups, but many of them are not satisfied at present. Midea has come to the school and asked for three people, but Haier is estimated to be unable to recruit people because of its delay in recruiting people. Most of the work is product design, and several people are management trainees. Moreover, Sino-foreign joint ventures have the opportunity to go abroad for training.
It depends on personal hobbies and personal specialties. If you are good at and like industrial design, you are welcome to join us. If you feel inappropriate after reading my introduction, you should choose carefully.
I've written in enough detail. After fully understanding the changes in this job, you should think carefully and find the most suitable major for you.