As to the product design sector, the professionals graduating from the three-year degree course are defined design technicians, capable of developing all the aspects of integration between product design and technological and productive processes. These professionals usually find employment in the Technical and Research and Development Departments of companies, or with professional design and consulting firms.
The final graduation relates to the acquisition of 180 Credits. Students graduating from the Degree Course must possess a solid basic education in the design disciplines, that prepare them for an in-depth study of both the methods and the technical and operative instruments. They must, in particular, be sufficiently familiar with the formal and functional representation of the product (from manual drawing to technical drawing, from photography to the production of three-dimensional product models), the techniques of production of digital images, visual languages, the perceptive mechanisms that characterize individuals, the chromatic systems. They must moreover know methods of planning and designing of products, and all aspects concerning their distribution and marketing. A very important aspect of the education of a product designer consists of the acquisition of scientific and technical skills associated with the materials and techniques of transformation of the products in prototypes and subsequently in mass produced goods. A knowledge of manufacturing technologies and processes, of economic systems, business organizations and strategies is fundamental in this sense. Along with these sectors, the historical and critical disciplines associated with products and their evolution, semiotics and aesthetics, sociology and psychology play an equally important role.