Human centered design education——Design Education in the new era

Department of industrial design, Xi’ an University of Technology, Xi’ an, Shaanxi, 710054, China

^* Corresponding author’s e-mail: 406430023@qq.com

Abstract

China’s design education has not developed as fast and well as the economy. Instead, problems such as blindly imitating foreign design education, failing to deeply develop students’ potential, and failing to develop students’ design thinking have emerged. Since the industrial revolution, design has been repeatedly defined and revised at different times. Similarly, design education needs to be constantly discussed in combination with the country, era, culture and population. Colleges and universities should not train “hand-drawn/modeling machines”, but let every student find himself and know human beings; Have empathy for others, insight into the environment, and confidence to use your strengths. Because design and education have to deal with people, it means that they don’t have to follow a process, summarize a method to get the truth. Teachers, students and designers have been involved in adjusting cognition to find more responsive answers to this era.