Meet Tarun Dosanjh, Lead Product Designer at Alpha Vitesse, as he shares how the Product Design program at The Wilson School of Design combines knowledge in science and art to create advanced products.
The Wilson School of Design offers a Product Design program that prepares students for work as entrepreneurs and designers. Our program is all about the studio: the place where students experiment, discover, problem-solve and innovate. It’s where creativity meets critical thinking, where theory meets reality, and where product designers learn by doing.
In this hands-on program, you’ll experience the entire product design process cycle. You’ll identify problems and explore sustainable, ethical solutions to the problems you see around you; develop your technical skills by creating prototypes; and apply your marketing and business expertise to introduce your design to contemporary markets.
Good design is essentially hidden, so you don’t notice this, because it just works so well.
“My name is Tarun Dosanjh and I graduated from Product Design at KPU’s Wilson School of Design. Product design is looking at problems that you have around yourself and coming up with user-centered solutions. Product design is really infused into our everyday lives, anything from a laptop to a phone to a service that you might use.”
“I’m the Lead Product Designer here at Alpha Vitesse. We’re a Canadian manufactured and sourced motorcycle accessories provider. I really look over the development of our products, in terms of crash protection and motorcycle accessories, from conceptualization to research, all the way down to manufacturing and actually having the product in hand.”
“The Wilson School of Design really emphasizes the need to have hands on work. We were able to have the opportunity to work with the Canadian Coast Guard and really take on that project as our own project.”
“By working very closely with the industry, we’re able to get hands-on experience for the skills that we need to transition into the industry as seamlessly as possible.”
“I really love that I get to be at that intersection of engineering, art, science, and design. I really love seeing all those thoughts coming together and formulating a product that checks off all the user needs. At the end, it really puts a smile on the user’s face and that’s what I feel like I’m in the business for — really creating happiness for the end user.”
