Labs
The twelve-week teaching schedule: what happens in each lab, what to prepare, and what leaves the room.
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Unboxing Teardown
Bring a real package and test the lecture's three-logic framework against it, before we have any formulas to check your guess with
Week 1 · 22 February 2027
Flute Selection Lab
Measure the flute on your own package and put a real cost-and-protection trade-off behind last week's guess
Week 2 · 1 March 2027
Drop Test Plan
Write a realistic ISTA 3A test plan for a real product, and price out what a failed test would actually cost the company
Week 3 · 8 March 2027
Cubic Weight Lab
Measure your own week 1 package and find out whether its box size was quietly inflating its shipping cost
Week 4 · 15 March 2027
Source Critique Lab
Apply Monday's read-the-source-against-its-interest test to a sustainability claim on your own week 1 package
Week 5 · 22 March 2027
Midterm Workshop
Structured lab time to apply weeks 2-5 to your own diagnosis of the week 1 case studies, ahead of Assignment 1
Week 6 · 29 March 2027
Returns Cost Model
Build a small return-cost model for a product category, and work out where a "keep-it" refund would actually make sense
Week 7 · 5 April 2027
Reveal Design Lab
Redesign your week 1 package's unboxing sequence using a specific choice-architecture concept, without touching the product inside
Week 8 · 12 April 2027
Dangerous Goods Paperwork Lab
Fill out a dangerous goods declaration for a real product category, and find out what compliance costs in friction, not just fees
Week 9 · 19 April 2027
Accessible Redesign Lab
Audit your week 1 package for who could and couldn't open it easily, and sketch a fix that doesn't undo the cost or compliance work already priced out
Week 10 · 26 April 2027
Redesign Studio
Dedicated studio time to build your integrative redesign and get feedback before week 12's defense
Week 11 · 3 May 2027
Final Defense
Present and defend your integrative redesign against the six constraints and the course's throughline claim
Week 12 · 10 May 2027