With Taipei being nominated for the World Design Capital 2016, What is the 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, analysed designer abilities required by businesses, and referred to the design department evaluations. The results showed that for visual communication design departments, issues that required most improvements were: (1) The characteristics and objectives of the departments should be more focused. (2) Comprehensive planning should be conducted to manage the tutorial systems and supplementary education of the departments. (3) The departments should provide related professional books. The results of this study can serve as a reference for relevant departments to develop education related to visual communication design.