Industrial Design

Department Head

Tsai Lu Liu
tsailu_liu@ncsu.edu

Department of Graphic and Industrial Design

College of Design
NC State University
Campus Box 7701
Raleigh, NC 27695-7701

Industrial Design is concerned with all the human aspects of machine-made products and their relationship to people and the environment. The designer is responsible for these products and their impact on society and nature. The designer accounts for the product's human factors engineering, safety, form, color, maintenance and cost. Industrial design deals with consumer products as well as industrial products. In order to achieve these ends, designers must be involved in four major design and research activities: human behavior, the human-machine interface, the environment, and the product itself.

Areas of design investigation include furniture, housewares, appliances, transportation, tools, equipment, medical and electronic instruments, human interface, and recreational support equipment.