Designing for Technology and Innovation
UndergraduateTAS-ZAT1202025
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- Study method
- 100% online
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- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Designing for Technology and Innovation
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Describe digital innovation and transformational solutions.
- Apply design methodologies to propose solutions-based outcomes.
- Examine how technology can improve the human condition through ethical design.
- Reflect on your role in the innovation process to improve design outcomes.
- Module 1 - Introduction
- Module 2 - Innovation Concepts: Diffusion and Cultures
- Module 3 - Design Thinking: Empathise and Define
- Module 4 - Ideation
- Module 5.1 - Selecting Ideas
- Module 5.2 - Ethics, Sustainability and Safety in Design
- Module 6 - Prototyping
- Module 7 - Testing and Implementation
- Module 8 - Exploring the User Experience
- Module 9 - Mapping Interaction and Developing Insights
- Module 10 - Theories of Change
- Module 11 - Agile Manifesto
- Module 12 - Agile vs Design Thinking
- Module 13 - Recap
Digital innovation is transforming businesses across all sectors of the economy, through implementing new processes or upgrading existing technology. As a result, new business models in Industry 4.0 have emerged. In this subject you will be introduced to key concepts, principles and practices that relate to designing for technology and innovation. You will examine approaches that drive digital innovation, through applying design thinking, user experience and other contemporary methods for exploring problems and opportunities. In addition, you will investigate how digital transformation is a collaborative and creative process that enables for opportunities in the digital economy. You will therefore learn how to use design thinking tools and techniques and other human-centred approaches to identify, analyse and develop innovative approaches and transformational solutions. In addition, you will develop the skills needed to be an innovative and reflective practitioner.
This subject also introduces learning through practice by exposing you to authentic learning experiences. These experiences are placed at the centre of learning and assessment, so you have the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge and behaviours necessary to respond to industry, community and/or global needs.
You will be introduced to:
- a range of methods, tools, techniques and approaches to practice
- principles and perspectives such as values, ethics, empathy and leadership in real world scenarios
- reflection and deliberative thinking as a means of developing knowledge, skills, attitudes and aspirations
- ways of understanding problems and developing solutions through active inquiry.
- Case Study on Innovation (30%)
- Design Thinking Report (40%)
- New Product or Process Proposal (30%)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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