工業設計

工業設計（Industrial Design）是以工學、美學、經濟學為基礎對工業產品進行的設計，其設計理念從產生之初的「形式隨機能」發展到現今的「在符合各方面需求的基礎上兼具特色」，工業設計者的設計構思，應該包括產品的整體外型、各種細節特徵的相關位置、顏色、材質、音效；還要考慮產品使用時的人因工程學。更進一步的工業設計構想，會考量到產品的生產流程、材料的選擇、以及在產品銷售中展現產品的特色。工業設計者必須引導產品開發的過程，藉由改善產品的可用性，來使產品更有價值、更低生產成本、更高的產品魅力。

Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production. Its key characteristic is that design is separated from manufacture: the creative act of determining and defining a product’s form and features takes place in advance of the physical act of making a product, which consists purely of repeated, often automated, replication. This distinguishes industrial design from craft-based design, where the form of the product is determined by the product’s creator at the time of its creation.