I want to teach myself product design. How do I start?

The university's major is product design. After studying for several years, I feel that I have just entered a new door, which may also be related to my failure to study hard. We mainly use rhino and keyshot.cad and ps as software, and theoretically we mainly master ergonomics and design history. Taking ergonomics as an example, we must consider how to make users feel most comfortable when designing home chairs, which depends on whether the height of the chair conforms to the size of the human body. Only the design supported by ergonomics theory will be more professional. In fact, design history is an unnecessary course for us, but it is very important for students who are new to product design. If you want to learn product design, you must master design history and design style. From the industrial design before the industrial revolution to the industrial design after the industrial revolution, great changes have taken place, and industrial design has gradually developed into a relatively mature design industry from germination, during which many valuable design ideas have emerged. The ability of hand-drawing is essential for product design. You must master hand-drawing with marker, you can express your ideas quickly, and then constantly optimize and adjust your design according to hand-drawing. At the beginning of hand drawing, it is best to copy first, and try to keep two kinds of auxiliary lines and structural lines for shape analysis. There is no shortcut to hand drawing, and students who are not majoring in design or art can learn it as long as they are willing to practice hard.

First of all, you need to strengthen the basic skills of hand-drawing, not only drawing, but also having the basic concept of floor plan.

It may be necessary for you to learn sketch and color from scratch, which is one of the basic skills of design.

You can buy two books with sketches and colors in the art shop for reference. Of course, if you have the conditions, you'd better sign up for a class and study. After all, you have no education and training in this field. After studying for a period of time, learn a "perspective" book, which is an important basic concept and skill of designing hand-drawing, and it is very important, at least conceptually.

It's good to have two books in your hand. Liu Chuankai's product design, the title of which has been specifically forgotten, is a thick white horizontal version. Use it to learn to design hand-drawing. It takes time.

In fact, basic theoretical knowledge also needs to be accumulated, and the most basic books such as introduction to industrial design, design methods and procedures still need to be read, so as to understand what the basic workflow of industrial design is like. This can also refer to the websites of some design companies, and some will have their own design processes, all of which are practical processes, which are better than those taught by schools.

Product design requires designers to sort out their own thinking, and then rationally summarize and generate creativity.

Product design itself has two stages: modeling design and structural design, and there are many things to learn, that is, students of this major have been engaged in design work for many years after graduation, or should continue to study. So, you have a lot to make up for.

In creative thinking, you need to learn some basic things: plane composition, color composition and three-dimensional composition. These art bookstores have ready-made books, just call them these names, and find out what the three basic concepts are. As for the application, this needs to be handled by your mind, and the feedback is the design. These courses are mainly for you to learn how to use and integrate basic design elements. These books are other people's ideas. You must draw it yourself. The development of design ideas is not a matter of one or two years, and it needs to be constantly summarized and revised. And these courses will use the basic skills of sketch and color.

If you are a science major and have studied CAD, you will save a lot of effort. At least you have a little foundation of software learning. If you are a liberal arts major, you may need to spend more time. The thinking mode of designing software is very science and engineering.

The most important course is product design. This kind of teaching material is available, but the quality of many domestic teaching materials is not high, foreign teaching materials are hard to find and the translation is not very good. Look for it. It belongs to Jiangnan University, Tsinghua University Hunan University and other universities. Don't buy the product design textbook produced by the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of Fine Arts. It's not really important. Mainly depends on the steps of guiding the plan. The real exercise is to make your own plan, but you can't watch it.

You can find more forums related to industrial design and award-winning works of major awards (abroad) on the Internet.

If, red dots, ideas and so on. If you visit the online bookstore, there will be some yearbooks and product collections of industrial design, but books of industrial design are very expensive. Let's look at them online and download them.

When designing, you must read more books and read more materials than ordinary people 10 times.

The most important thing in product design is creativity, but it is not enough to be creative without showing it. Therefore, the expression of design techniques is also compulsory.

Hand-drawn sketch is a kind of.

If the economic conditions are good, you can match a hand-drawn board, which can be hand-drawn by computer.

How many kinds of computer software do you need to learn?

Plane:

Photoshop and illustrator are the foundation, and there are many books in bookstores and online, so don't worry. But don't just do it with books, practice independently. Communicate more on the internet.

Autocad will come into contact with many softwares. You are not required to master the master level, but it is necessary to use it skillfully. There are also many teaching materials, so you need to practice more by yourself.

In terms of design:

Rhino+keyshot, if you have no foundation, don't learn too much. This group is enough. Rhino is three-dimensional modeling. If you know a little cad, you will learn faster.

Keyshot is used to render renderings, and the final scheme needs such professional software to deal with it. Here you will use the feeling of color composition and three-dimensional composition, and you can only rely on accumulation, there is no shortcut. Unless you are one of the peerless masters.

Structural design: proe, SolidWorks, learn any one. There are many teaching materials.

Structural design will be more difficult, but if you major in science and engineering, such as mechanical engineering, then I suggest you rely on it. There is no absolute textbook to refer to. The product structure design needs to be transformed into a file that can be put into production on the basis of ensuring the realization of the design scheme.

If you teach yourself completely, I'm afraid it's hard to learn this. If there is an opportunity, you'd better find an internship position to study. There are also some training courses, but you may learn more shallowly.

Learning product design still needs a lot of knowledge:

The selection and application of materials, plastics, metals, ceramics and wood, processing technology and physical effects depend entirely on the designer's own accumulation.

Surface treatment, the texture of various products is not only the material itself, but also the method of surface treatment. There is no shortcut to spraying, packaging, electroplating and laminating, and we can only learn by accumulation.

There are no good textbooks in this field. There are videos on the Internet, but they are scattered. This knowledge is not necessarily understood by university professors, but accumulated in work.

It should be enough to know this information in your spare time. If you want to design products from your own ideas, it depends on your study.

I am mold designer of industrial products, and I often deal with products. I occasionally design various products, but only the product structure. I think there are too many aspects involved in learning product design. It is suggested to start with a certain kind of products. Because different products are so different.

For example, if you want to design a new cup, you should consider several basic situations. Of course, before you start, you can refer to the existing classic styles on the market. )

First, the conceptual design of the product. Before designing, we always have a design concept, such as the target group, specific use and use environment of my cup. Any special functional requirements, etc. According to the concept, we can draw a rough sketch, confirm the rough size and shape the cup in the rough direction. After that, it gradually improved.

Second, now we should start to improve the details, first of all, the capacity, the size, caliber, depth and thickness of the cup. This has something to do with the materials used. Glass, plastic, ceramics, etc. Because of different materials, the required wall thickness is also different.

Third, the process. Different materials involve different molding processes. For example, if it is made of plastic, it needs to be molded with a mold. The product should be designed with a demoulding slope and a uniform wall thickness to prevent the cup from being miniaturized due to different wall thicknesses. Of course, these are all things that need to be understood. As time goes on, you will become skilled. If you are not familiar with it, you can only consult the corresponding suppliers or experienced colleagues.

The above is only the most basic product development process, and there are still many places to be improved. For example, in the process of product design, you can't solve all the problems with one pen. To master the corresponding software, such as graphic design software AI, PS, 3D software UG. Solidwork and CAd.

Generally speaking, there are many things that product design needs to master, and you need to solve them step by step. If you want to enter the business, it is suggested that you can learn software first, then work as an assistant in the company and learn experience slowly.

I'm tired of typing. Take a break and ask questions later.

Yishe Jia Wei

02: 48 the day before yesterday. Creator in the field of design.

This is quite broad, and it's really hard to answer. Self-study is really a bit difficult. No matter what kind of product it is, you must first understand its characteristics, uses and user groups. Every industry has different products. Aside from product and design, first of all, a product design should have a general concept in mind, draw a prototype and constantly improve it. Then we need to translate it into computer graphics with software, and then improve it. Finally, you can go to the machine for proofing. Of course, handmade products can be used without machines or computers.

I feel it's better to be driven by things. I choose to make a small thing, then choose a suitable software, complete the installation and start, and learn to draw points, lines and surfaces. Then try something according to what you want to do. The key here is to have a strong three-dimensional thinking, and software is just a tool.

It is important to learn product design, positioning, ideas and so on.

You can choose a professional training institution.

An excellent designer should have a strong imagination. On the one hand, designers can only dare to do it and create creative designs. At the same time, they need to combine the actual production process to optimize the product structure. The four major processes of the whole vehicle, including stamping, welding, painting and assembly, also include sewing, plastic parts, electricity, foaming, non-standard parts, wire cutting, milling machine, cnc, wire cutting, boring machine, spark machine, punching machine, etc., all need to be understood.

Engaged in automobile industry design 10 years. You can watch some applications from basic modeling to advanced surfaces, and some practical videos of automobile interior will be pushed later!

Put the necessary software first.

Then improve yourself in practice.

Software can be learned if you study hard.

The main thing is that your own thoughts are more important.

If you want to teach yourself product design, you must first decide what product to design, whether it is graphic design, structural design or 3D drawing, and then decide which design software to learn. There are many design software, and the software used for different product design may be different. For example, I am a graphic designer of watches, and I first used CoreIDRAW. Because foreigners share some materials with AdobeIllustrator, many people are using this software now. Also, when designing a product, you must know the size, structure and material of this product, which will be more in line with the quality assurance of this product. So you first determine the design goal, and then decide which design software to learn.