Abstract: Based on the urgent demand for innovative and entrepreneurial talents in the current society, how to cultivate talents with high quality and efficiency in design discipline has become an increasingly important issue. This paper takes Jiangsu Ocean University as an example to study the talent training mode of design discipline, and the reform is carried out from the aspects of training mode, teaching objectives, curriculum system, platform integration, teacher collaboration, practice approach and ability training, and integration of production, education and research, etc., so as to make explorations and attempts to cultivate high-level innovative composite applied talents with quick learning and strong stamina.

Key words: Design discipline, Cross-disciplinary collaboration, Innovation and entrepreneurship, Cultivation of talents