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Project III - Development of smart product-service systems with design sprints
Use design sprints like at Google Ventures
Are you ready to use your creativity and innovation to shape the future of product-service systems in the smart home and around the world's best coffee? Our Project III - Development of smart product-service systems with design sprints offers you the unique opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary team and develop needs-based solutions for the world of tomorrow.
In this project, you will apply the human-centered design sprint methodology to develop and test innovative ideas in a short period of time. Together with your team, you will develop business models and design smart systems that solve real-world problems and meet the needs of users.
With us you can:
- Experience interdisciplinary teamwork: Work together with fellow students from different disciplines and benefit from their perspectives and skills.
- Apply the design sprint methodology: Learn how to go from idea to prototype in just a few days using iterative feedback loops.
- Develop business models: Develop sustainable business models that enable innovative product-service combinations and ensure market relevance.
- Hands-on prototyping: Develop and test both digital and physical prototypes in our fully equipped project lab.
If you are looking for an exciting smart home challenge, then this project is for you. Take your chance to gain hands-on experience in an innovative development project and learn how complex challenges are tackled today. In addition to an impressive project portfolio, you will also receive a certificate of participation for your future employers.
| Target group: | Bachelor and Master students |
| Access: | Restricted access! |
| Language: | German (DE) |
| Type and scope: | Project seminar (3 CP) |
| Learning outcomes, competences (qualification goals) | Students can name central elements of smart product-service systems and, in an interdisciplinary team, apply and reflect on the design sprint methodology for the human-centered development of such systems. In addition, they can guide other students in the development and evaluation. |
| Course content | In an interdisciplinary team and in cooperation with a company, students systematically develop a smart product-service system. The innovative design sprint methodology is used, which is guided by experts in the field. All relevant phases are run through, from analyzing the target group, describing the use cases and defining the problem to developing the concept, prototyping and evaluating the solution approaches. The students are closely supervised by experts throughout the entire project. This is done, for example, through keynote lectures on the basics of developing product-service systems, workshops on problem framing and milestone reviews. As part of a buddy program, students pass on their knowledge, for example, through training sessions and team support for students in Project I of the PMDT department. |