Abstract: As one of the important basic courses for design majors in colleges and universities, design sketch course is an effective way to cultivate students' acute observation, rich imagination, positive innovation and design expression. Taking the design sketch course as the research object, and based on the analysis of the existing problems and shortcomings of this course, this paper puts forward the ways and methods for the continuous improvement of the design sketch course teaching, and forms a teaching mode conducive to the cultivation of innovative talents, so as to improve the teaching quality, which has reference significance for current design sketch course teaching and construction.