Courses

Course Descriptions

IDE 100 Internship I (0-2) (2 ECTS)

This summer practice aims to practice the conditions of the manufacturing company's/institution's environment, appropriately communicate with the staff, and contribute to and observe the activities related to the manufacturing environment and processes in the manufacturing company/institution.

IDE 101 Principles of Design (2-6) (8 ECTS)

Provides a working knowledge of the basic elements and principles of design that will guide students in their pursuit to give form to ideas. The course will help students understand basic design concepts, visual thinking, and design materials and gain compositional skills through formal and spatial elements. The course aims to expand students’ intellectual, visual, and technical abilities besides encouraging and nourishing creative approaches to problem-solving.

IDE 102 Design as Creative Problem Solving (2-6) (8 ECTS)

In this course, the students learn to integrate creative and rational skills, away from narrow specialization to a broader view of design to understand, visualize, and describe complex, ill-structured problems and develop approaches to solve them. Lateral thinking methods help them discover, ideate and experiment with innovative solutions for multidimensional projects. The course also addresses mind-mapping techniques, brainstorming rules, creativity techniques, scenario building, and collaborative idea evaluation.

IDE 103 Design Visualization (2-4) (4 ECTS)

Concepts of drawing (perception, line, proportion, composition); basic geometric forms, product geometry, composition, the ratio in perspective, orthographic views, auxiliary views, multi-view sketching, isometric perspectives, shade and shadow in perspective, complex form definitions, patterns and sections, page layout, graphical layout, backgrounds; 2 dimensional and 3-dimensional thinking skills.

IDE 104 Rapid Design Visualization (2-4) (4 ECTS)

This course introduces traditional and digital rapid visualization and sketching techniques and related media to the students. Course Description Rapid visualization and sketching are at the core of the design practice. Every industrial designer should be able to express design ideas via perspective and orthographic drawings on paper. This class introduces the basics of freehand sketching and rapid visualization techniques in this context.

IDE 105 Introduction to Industrial Design (2-0) (2 ECTS)

Basic information about the discipline and the profession of industrial design, the phases of the industrial design process; concepts for form, function, use, and user in industrial design, the importance of human factors in design; the relationship among industrial design, engineering, materials, manufacturing technologies, economy, marketing, innovation, culture, and communication; contemporary and global factors in design; introducing the history of the industrial design profession, the development of industrial design in Turkey.

IDE 106 Model Building (1-2) (3 ECTS)

Developing skills in 3-dimensional modeling; basic conventional model-making techniques; scales; the methods of modeling paste, forming foam and plaster; using cartoon, plastic sheet, cardboard, and acrylic for modeling; creating awareness about the aesthetic and tactile properties of materials in model making.

IDE 107 Statics and Strength of Materials (3-0) (2 ECTS)

Basic principles of statics, force vector, the effects of geometry, rigidity and flexibility, equilibrium of rigid body and structures, planar forces, shear stress, torsion, and bending; physical and mechanical nature of materials.

IDE 108 Art and Design History (3-0) (3 ECTS)

The course will focus on the aesthetic and historical evaluation of artists, styles, and cultures from the early civilizations to the modern era, including elementary theories of early modern and modern art and design with an emphasis on the social aspects of art. The course will look at Art and Design in the context of the time and culture in which it was created. The course seeks to introduce a broad view of art history with special emphasis on major trends and movements in the visual arts.

IDE 110 Research for Design (2-2) (4 ECTS)

The scope of research in general; understanding the conceptual foundation of research methodology; the need for research in design; the research methods used in the design process; interviews and interviewing techniques, focus groups; observations, participant observations; ethnographic research for design, video ethnography, creating personas and scenarios, storytelling, visual and verbal narrations.

IDE 200 Internship II (Office) (0-2) (2 ECTS)

Practical studies to understand the professional approaches in a design office.

IDE 201 Design Studio I (2-8) (10 ECTS)

The phases of the design process; the concepts for creativity and innovation; the relationship among meaning, image, and form; the use of the methods and tools for the design process through exploring several design problems focusing on physical and functional requirements based on user-product interaction, visual appearance, and manufacturing aspects; developing presentation techniques through design ideas.

IDE 202 Design Studio II (2-8) (10 ECTS)

Introduction to establishing design criteria and scenarios; issues on innovation, creative thinking process, design, and user-product interaction; design solutions with a conceptual approach for manufacturing processes, material quality and basic finishing properties; issues of production processes, manufacturing techniques and feasibility; the use of research methods and ergonomics in the design process; transferring the research data to into products.

IDE 203 3D Modelling in Industrial Design (2-2) (4 ECTS)

This course introduces the basics of surface modelling and 3D modelling specific to industrial design. Students experiment with 3D modelling using computer-aided design tools, mostly Rhinoceros. Course Description Surface modelling is one of the competencies of industrial designers. This course focuses on the basics of surface modelling using three-dimensional computer graphics software. The lectures introduce the logic behind surface architecture and the development of geometric and organic forms. Students practice 3D modelling using computer-aided design tools, mostly Rhinoceros.

IDE 204 Computer Aided Industrial Design (2-2) (4 ECTS)

Computer-aided industrial design representation techniques in design, material editing, and rendering techniques through 2D and 3D representations with an up-to-date package of related software; surface modeling, NURBS modeling; developing a concept sketch from scratch to an advanced 3D computer model.

IDE 205 Prototyping (1-2) (2 ECTS)

Introduction to techniques for prototyping; computer-aided manufacturing techniques; laser cut, 3D CNC, and rapid prototyping for modeling the product design piece; introduction to the conceptual tools for prototyping experiences and services such as paper prototypes, video prototypes, role-playing, and the like.

IDE 206 Human Factors in Design (3-0) (3 ECTS)

The study of human factors methods and principles for the design and evaluation of the relationship among users, products, and services in terms of physical, biomechanical, and cognitive aspects; Dimensions of people and the concept of anthropometry; the concept of interface and basics for creating user-smart product interactions.

IDE 207 Materials and Manufacturing (4-0) (4 ECTS)

Introduction to basic manufacturing processes in relationship to industrial design, focusing on the nature of materials and the manufacturing, analyzing the relationships among form, function, material selection, and production methods for product design; manufacturing methods such as metal casting, metal forming, and shaping, plastics molding and shaping, injection molding, dust technology, and rapid prototyping.

IDE 208 Interaction Design for Products and Services (2-1) (4 ECTS)

The basic principles of designing interactions for products and services where the focus is on people’s needs, choices and experiences rather than the technological capability involving all the stakeholders in the design process; introducing and practicing fundamental concepts, tools and methods for the design process through cases; co-designing, envisioning, testing and prototyping, role-playing, touch points and the like.

IDE 209 Contemporary Art and Design (2-0) (2 ECTS)

A critical survey of the major movement and paradigms of art and design of the 20th century. The course will focus on the aesthetic and historical evaluation of artists, styles, and cultures from the early civilizations to the modern era, including elementary theories of early modern and modern art and design with an emphasis on the social aspects of art. Special attention will be given to crucial problems such as the relation of art and politics, art’s response to mass media and consumer culture, and the understanding of terms such as “modern,” “avant-garde,” and “postmodern.”

IDE 212 Design Realization Technologies (2-1) (3 ECTS)

The achievement of works-like prototypes is a crucial step between the finalization of design and the manufacturing stage. Today a variety of materials and technological methods are used in design realization, utilizing hardware (physical materials) and software; including, subtractive and additive part forming such as 3D printing, prototyping with electronics using Arduino and Processing for programming motors, sensors, screens, lights, etc. which are also popular among the design schools throughout Europe, as tools for experience prototyping technologies. This class covers actual and virtual technologies and processes that are utilized by designers to realize their design projects in small or large numbers. While traditional manufacturing and prototyping approaches are naturally within the scope of this course, cutting edge tools such as computer simulations, augmented and virtual reality applications are also relevant.

IDE 300 Internship III (Factory) (0-8) (4 ECTS)

Practical studies are chosen according to the track specialization areas for understanding the work scope and the environment.

IDE 301 Design Studio III (2-8) (10 ECTS)

Projects focusing on specific aspects of design problems for consumer products, services, or systems considering brand identity, market research, user research data, and manufacturing possibilities in an appropriate context using the knowledge gained from the first three design studios. The use of creative, theoretical, technical, and entrepreneurial skills in a business environment; an emphasis on the use of a systematic process for the design and development of products that are useful, usable, desirable and feasible; the interactions with engineering, marketing and other professionals in the same activity.

IDE 302 Design Studio 4 (2-8) (10 ECTS)

Creating innovative and critical concepts; carrying out projects that require specific content and scope in terms of track specialization areas considering cultural, social, and environmental factors; focusing on establishing design methodology; developing a creative approach for defining the design problem and preparing a strategy for how to formulate the design solution to those problems based on systems of design, functional coordination, and corporate identity.

IDE 303 Design Management and Strategy (2-0) (2 ECTS)

The introduction of different business contexts where the industrial designer is involved in; defining design disciplines, definitions, and the scope of design management; development of design strategy and management; the role of design as a strategic and a competitive business tool; design-led innovation, design as a process; human resources for design; different models of using design expertise; organizational culture and design.

IDE 306 History of Industrial Design (3-0) (3 ECTS)

The course aims to provide a survey of the history of design from the mid-19th century to the present. The course will create an understanding of design from a socially based perspective via exploring the juxtapositions of culture, art, politics, technology, society, and design. The objective is to provide students with a framework of interpretative skills useful to understanding design.

IDE 311 Design Ethnography (3-0) 3 ECTS

The importance of ethnographic research in design and innovation; basics of ethnographic research for design; understanding people and the social context; ethnographic research techniques; observing, interviewing, and recording processes as they occur in their natural settings; observation and interview types; field guides, video ethnography, cultural probes, personas; transferring the ethnographic research data into the design process.

IDE 313 Color in Industrial Design (3-0) 3 ECTS

Introduction to color; creating an understanding of color, color action, and color relationships; the relationship among color, form, materials, proportion, function, and composition; the connection among color, information, and signage; gaining knowledge on how to use color in industrial design.

IDE 317 Designing Retail Experiences (3-0) (3 ECTS)

This course focuses on visual merchandising and retail spaces in relation to experience design. It covers the brief history of visual merchandising in Turkey and in the world, the meaning of visual merchandising and its importance in retail design, customer shopping psychology, customer shopping physiology (using our five senses), the fundamental basics of visual merchandising, the importance of first impression and perception, basic design rules in retail, the meaning of color and its functional usage in visual merchandising, lighting, and material selection in retail spaces, creativity and functionality for shop windows and mannequin dressing, merchandising systems for display units, creating traffic in the retail space, the relation between brand and visual merchandising, changing retail trends and their effects on visual merchandising.

IDE 319 Advanced Visualization Techniques (3-0) (3 ECTS)

This course aims to enhance student’s abilities to communicate through visualization and to introduce the student to the basic knowledge of the creative process for illustration, fundamental elements for composition, and various approaches to drawing and coloring processes. Course topics include: sketching in design; visual libraries and visual styles through multiple mediums in design; digital visualization software such as Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Sketchbook, and Procreate.

IDE 332 Introduction to Service Design (3-0) (3 ECTS)

Introduction of the tools and methods for designing interactions and services; the use of the tools and methods in appropriate stages and contexts of the service design project; front stage / backstage interactions; touch-points, customer journey maps; blueprinting, co-creation, mood boards, actors map, rough prototyping, experience prototypes, mock-ups, role-playing, story-telling, cognitive walkthrough, use cases, personas, cultural probes, design games and prototyping for services; visualization of the tools and methods; studying on several design cases that highlight the use of different tools and methods.

IDE 341 Introduction to Experience Design (3-0) (3 ECTS)

The definition and the scope of experience design; the shift from products as objects towards products as experiences; the role of culture, branding, marketing, and users within the relationship to experience design; taking a holistic view on experience design embracing designing products, interactions, retail, services, and systems; exploring experience design with case studies.

IDE 342 Prototyping and Testing in Service Design (3-0) (3 ECTS)

This course provides a deeper understanding of service design through exploring current prototyping and testing tools used to develop and evaluate service design projects. By the end of the course, students will be able to develop their own service design projects and demonstrate its feasibility through prototyping and testing.

IDE 351 Product Communications (3-0) (3 ECTS)

This course introduces the student to the elements of basic typography and the notions of corporate identity and product graphics. It is also an introduction to the elements of basic typography, including the history of letterforms, recognition, and specification of existing typefaces and typographical style. Study of logotypes and typographic communication in industrial design. Notions of corporate identity and development of product graphics.

IDE 354 Customer Experience in Business (3-0) (3 ECTS)

The course focuses mainly on visualization of experience, customer research methodologies, and measurement techniques of customer experience, how corporations and real-life experiences and case studies, manage experience. In this course, students experience the application of the service design approach to business.

IDE 401 Design Studio V (2-8) (10 ECTS)

Creating innovative and critical concepts; carrying out projects that require a specific content and scope in terms of track specialization areas considering cultural, social and environmental factors; focusing on establishing design methodology; developing a creative approach for defining the design problem and preparing a strategy for how to formulate the design solution to those problems based on systems of design, functional coordination and corporate identity; gaining more sophisticated verbal and visual presentation skills; developing potential form of use for future needs.

IDE 402 Design Graduation Studio VI (0-12) (14 ECTS)

Providing a venue for senior students to apply the design knowledge and skills that they gained throughout the undergraduate education; working on a complete and thorough design project from conception to production or development, typically industry sponsored and relating to the sponsor's business; using professional skills to create network with interested institutions, companies and industries for realizing their research and design; enabling the students to carry out a real-life design project individually considering the facilities and limitations of the companies and the requirements and the tendencies of potential markets; developing an creative approach for defining the design problem and preparing a strategy for developing a solution; managing the design project with an intensive exploratory approach to the issues related with the design problem and to research the needs of consumers, stakeholders and industries; presenting the design solution together with a detailed report documenting the whole research and the design process.

IDE 403 Professional Practice and Portfolio Design (3-0) (4 ECTS)

Professional practice in industrial design and expectations in the business world; entrepreneurial, teamwork and time management skills; seminars from professional; basics for preparing a curriculum vitae and a portfolio in terms of scope, content and aesthetic factors; designing a portfolio and curriculum vitae in the end of the course.

IDE 404 Design Protection and Legal Issues (2-0) (4 ECTS)

National and global intellectual property legislation, types of contracts, a national labor and the related legislations; types of contracts; the concept of ethics; research ethics, design ethics, ethics for professional studies; legal transactions, types of legal transactions, types of rights, conditions of acquiring and losing rights, rights on intellectual properties and designs.

IDE 412 Creative Entrepreneurship (3-0) (3 ECTS)

The focal point of the course is entrepreneurship in creative industries. Throughout the semester, the course identifies the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, creative entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship. The course covers the relationship between problem definition and value creation in design and entrepreneurship ecosystems; the process of creating and marketing content for a new brand in creative entrepreneurship through digital platforms; application of market research and opportunity recognition methods in creative industries for entrepreneurship; application of individual skill and competence discovery methods for new company development in designer's well-being; brand-designer-personal vision relationship in creative entrepreneurship; fundamentals of business model creation methods, fundraising, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and investment opportunities in creative industries.

IDE 413 Advanced 3D Modeling and Visualization (3-0) (3 ECTS)

Introducing professional presentation techniques, rendering in mix-media; photo-realistic views; understanding and gaining skills on advanced techniques in computer-aided 3D modeling and visualization.

IDE 418 Data Literacy and Visualization for Designers (3-0) (3 ECTS)

This course aims to instill "data literacy" and visualization skills in design students. Data literacy is defined as being able to approach data-based claims and visualizations with a critical perspective. R statistical computing software will teach basic statistical analysis and visualization.

IDE 424 Circular Design for Sustainability (3-0) (3 ECTS)

This course aims to define the opportunities that the circular economy can offer in general and in specific contexts and to describe the main principles of circular design by identifying elements of the biological and technical cycle. It focuses on developing systems thinking approach while framing and solving design problems and differentiating the main theories, methods, and tools for effective collaboration between each stakeholder in the product life cycle. It also describes purpose economy, common goods, sharing economy, and citizen empowerment concepts.

IDE 437* Design for Interactions and Services Studio (2-8) (10 ECTS)

Creating innovative service design concepts; undertaking service design projects that require a specific content and scope in terms of track specialization areas considering cultural, social and environmental factors; focusing on establishing service design methodology; developing a creative approach for defining the service problem and creating strategies for how to formulate service design solutions to those problems based on the coordination of experience design, functional requirements, and corporate identity; gaining more sophisticated presentation skills; developing innovative design proposals for future needs.

IDE 438** Design for Interactions and Services Graduation Studio (0-12) (14 ECTS)

Providing a specific venue for senior students to apply their design knowledge and skills gained throughout the undergraduate education; working on a complete and thorough service design project from conception to development, typically industry sponsored and relating to the sponsor's business; using professional skills to create network with interested institutions, companies and industries for realizing their research and design; enabling the students to carry out a real-life service design project individually considering the facilities and limitations of the companies and the requirements and the tendencies of potential markets; developing an creative approach for defining the design problem and preparing a strategy for developing a solution; managing a service design project with an intensive exploratory approach to the issues related with the design problem and to research the needs of consumers, stakeholders and industries; presenting the design solution together with a detailed report documenting the whole research and the design process.

IDE 477* Furniture Design Studio (2-8) (10 ECTS)

Creating innovative design concepts for furniture; undertaking furniture design projects that require specific content and scope in terms of track specialization areas considering cultural, social, and environmental factors; focusing on establishing design methodology for furniture and related products; developing a creative approach for defining problems and creating strategies for how to formulate design solutions to those problems based on the coordination of experience design, functional requirements, and corporate strategies; gaining more sophisticated presentation and implementation skills; developing innovative furniture design proposals for future needs.

IDE 478** Furniture Design Graduation Studio (0-12) (14 ECTS)

Providing a specific venue for senior students to apply their design knowledge and skills gained throughout the undergraduate education; working on a complete and thorough furniture design project from conception to development, typically industry sponsored and relating to the sponsor's business; using professional skills to create network with interested institutions and companies for realizing their research and design; enabling the students to carry out a real-life furniture design project individually considering the facilities and limitations of the companies and the requirements and the tendencies of potential markets; developing an creative approach for defining the design problem and preparing a strategy for developing a solution; managing a furniture design project with an intensive exploratory approach to the issues related with the design problem and to research the needs of consumers, stakeholders and industries; presenting the design solution together with a detailed report documenting the whole research and the design process.

*IDE 401 Design Studio V equivalent

**IDE 402 Design Graduation Studio VI equivalent

BUS 101 Introduction to Business I (Decision Making) (2-0) (4 ECTS)