华盛顿大学的工业设计课程是该学院几个本科课程之一，在过去的40年中得到了发展。这是一个专业计划，主要针对公司和机构创新领域的工业设计实践，在这些领域中，新技术从以人为本的设计角度引领了新形式的产品，流程和服务的开发。本科学习的ID课程是一个强化课程，着重强调形式的发展，这种形式源于使用模式，功能要求，工业制造施加的限制以及社会环境所驱动的美学。这种关于设计的观点的关键方面是理解人与技术之间的相互作用。对学生进行培训以识别设计挑战，并为设计响应，沟通，文档和组织技能设想有前途的策略，以执行从项目简介到设计实
The Industrial Design program at the University of Washington, one of several undergraduate programs in the School, has evolved over the past forty years. It is a professional program aimed primarily at industrial design practice in the corporate and institutional innovation sector where new technologies lead to the development of new forms of products, processes, and service from a human-centered design perspective.<br><br>The ID course of undergraduate study is an intensive program emphasizing the development of form that is derived from patterns of use, requirements for function, constraints imposed by industrial manufacturing and aesthetics driven by social context. Key aspects in this view on design are understanding the interactions between people and technology. Students are trained to identify design challenges and to envision promising strategies for design responses, communication, documentation, and organizational skills to conduct the design process from project brief to design implementation.<br><br>The curriculum includes all phases of design field study including ideation, scenario-building, concept selection, refinement, detailing to model-making, prototyping, testing, refining, and production. During all phases of the design process industrial designers plan for and participate in presentations and collaborative problem-solving.