Become an Industrial Designer

Industrial designers take ideas for physical products and turn those ideas into something ready to be manufactured and sold. From core design concepts to sketching and CAD, learn everything you need to know to get started in industrial design.

• Learn the fundamentals of design.
• Explore various ways of turning concepts into sketches.
• Create prototypes and designs on your road to manufacturing a product.

• Course 1: Industrial Design Foundations
• Take a high-level, practical look at industrial design. Learn about the role of storytelling in design, review a case study of an actual designer, and more.
• Course 2: Sketching for Product Design and AEC
• Learn sketching basics such as how to quickly generate shapes and forms, using planes, projection methods, line weights, and shade and shadow to bring product designs to life.
• Course 3: Rapid Prototyping for Product Design
• Bring your product designs into the real world with rapid prototyping. Get a close look at the machinery and the techniques, such as 3D printing, machining, and injection molding.
• Course 4: Introducing Rhino 6 (2018)
• Get up and running with Rhino 6, the powerful 3D modeling tool for product design and architecture, in just one hour.
• Course 5: Learning Design Thinking: Lead Change in Your Organization
• Learn how design thinking can lead to better business solutions. Discover new strategies for ideation and problem-solving, such as journey mapping, concepting, and prototyping.
• Course 6: Product Design: From Sketch to CAD
• Transform product designs that start as rough sketches into polished CAD drawings, with Photoshop, Rhino, and Illustrator.
• Course 7: Product Design: From CAD to 3D Model
• Turn a CAD concept model into something functional and ready for product rendering and manufacture.
• Course 8: Reverse Engineering Foundations: Product Design
• Discover basic reverse engineering. Learn how to use physical measurement 3D scanning and touch probes to measure real-world objects and work with them in your CAD tool of choice.