Is Spatial Ability improved? Creative Sketch training for product design students

Spatial ability has been considered as an essential of product sketch, which helps designer visualize their initial concept. 3D model, especially by virtual reality, has been used for students to observe the details of the every prospect that they can comprehend the visual appearance by all viewinProduct design students usually experience the difficulties creating product shapes that look uncommon. Spatial ability is considered as an essential of product sketch, which helps designer visualize their initial concept. This research applied model making and traditional sketch teaching method to two first year industrial design sketch classes. We assessed the changes of spatial ability and drawing creativity to investigate whether spatial ability is improved together with sketch creativity. The results show that the students generally improved their spatial ability and draw better in fluency and correctness. Drawing creativity is also improved but has no significant relation to spatial ability. Two classes have developed different approaches in drawing objects from imagination and may be applied in 3D engineering drawing software design in the future.g angle. On the other hand, imagination of spatial rotation is also a common way to encourage student to construct unseen prospects through reasoning the observable features. Through a practice of these two types of sketch training, this research is to clarify whether the improvement of sketch skill is by/with increased spatial ability and which type of training is better for improving sketch skill. Two product sketch classes were invited to use different curriculum, real modelling experience and unseen viewing angle imagination. Spatial ability and creative sketch tests were conducted before and after the curriculum. As the results, spatial ability does not necessarily link to creative sketch Students of both classes improve their performance in creating shapes in which class B improves more than class A. Conference Key Areas: Curriculum Development, I feel brilliant.