Product Design & Development

Course Overview

This course empowers you to transform ideas into marketable products and services by developing your creative and innovative capacities. Grounded in the EntreComp framework's "Ideas and Opportunities" competence area, you will learn to identify market gaps, imagine future scenarios, understand customer needs, and design solutions that create value while considering ethical and sustainable practices.

Competence Areas

What you'll learn

• Use imagination and abilities to identify opportunities for creating value
• Explore the social, cultural, and economic landscape to seize opportunities
• Recognize unmet needs and establish new connections to create opportunities
• Develop creative, purposeful ideas and experiment with innovative approaches
• Imagine the future and develop a vision to turn ideas into action
• Judge the value of an idea in social, cultural, and economic terms
• Assess the consequences and impact of ideas on the community and environment
• Operate ethically and consider sustainability in product design

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• 1Apply systematic approaches to identify opportunities in their environment
• 2Generate multiple creative solutions to address customer problems
• 3Develop a clear vision for their product and its impact
• 4Design products that align with market demand and customer preferences
• 5Assess the social, cultural, economic, and environmental value of product ideas
• 6Create prototypes and minimum viable products (MVPs)
• 7Apply user-centered design principles to product development
• 8Test and refine products based on feedback and market response
• 9Make ethical decisions and consider sustainability throughout the design process