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With Taipei being nominated for the World Design Capital 2016, an event that emphasizes "design thinking," issues, such as identifying Taiwan's design education development trends and crucial factors influencing Taiwan's design industry development must be addressed for Taiwan's future design education. This study conducted a pilot study to investigate design department objectives, analyzed designer abilities required by businesses, and referred to the design department evaluations. The results showed that for cultural creative design departments, issues that required most improvements were: (1) Related departments should encourage students to actively participate in off-campus competitions to enhance the students' execution, implementation, problem-solving, and communication abilities; and (2) The departments established industry-academia cooperation and provided various opportunities, but insufficient options were provided for teachers and students to participate in various types of internship.
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