TRAN-507: Intro to Future-Casting & UX

If we are truly designing transportation to support the best human and environmental conditions for the future, then there are two key additional areas of knowledge that tomorrow's transportation design thought-leaders need: 1. The understanding of timescale for projects we work on and therefore how to minimize the risk of solutions-failure by trying to determine the likely characteristics of the future environment that we are designing for. 2. The understanding of what we mean by User Experience and Interaction Design. This course will explain to students, techniques for creating plausible future scenarios relevant to their work. In addition, the course will introduce students to important and specialized approaches to designing for experience and relationships between human beings and the devices and systems that they will participate in. This course will be seven weeks long and will be directly relevant to future design studio projects.