Commercial Design | Human Factors |
Interaction Design | Packaging Design |
Product Design | Service Design |
User Experience Design |
Commercial Design
The design of physical environments for commercial or public use. This is viewed as industrial design because such environments may be scaled out to many locations or scaled in the sense that they serve large numbers of visitors.
Human Factors
Design disciplines that consider the physical, cognitive and social characteristics of humans such as ergonomics, human-centered design and usability engineering. This includes physical factors such as a chair that is comfortable and safe to use and cognitive factors such as a mobile app that prevents human error with validation rules.
Interaction Design
The design of interfaces that people can use to control technology. This takes a user-centered approach that begins with user needs, preferences and behaviors.
Packaging Design
The functional and graphical design of packaging including elements such as branding, product positioning, sales pitches, product information and package usability.
Product Design
The design and development of products is often a multidisciplinary effort involving designers, engineers and marketing teams. This may consider a large number of factors such as customer needs, functions, features, usability, customer experience, quality, cost and manufacturability.
Service Design
The design of everything that goes into providing a service to customers including processes, practices, environments, products, marketing and user interfaces.
User Experience Design
Design from the user perspective that considers the entire user experience. Begins with user needs and measures design in terms of user perceptions.
Summary
Industrial design traditionally involves the design of products for mass production and commercial environments that are open to customers or the public. This has evolved and expanded with time to include design disciplines such as human factors design, service design and user experience design.
