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Expressing product character: teaching design students how to exploit form’s parameters

Ferraris, Silvia Deborah; Gorno, Roberta // 2013
Defining products’ aesthetic characteristics in terms of shape properties can represent a challenge for design students and sometimes for design professionals too. Outlining aesthetic features of ...

Extending product modeling methods for integrated product development

Bonev, Martin; Wörösch, Michael; Hauksdóttir, Dagný; Hvam, Lars // 2013
Despite great efforts within the modeling domain, the majority of methods often address the uncommon design situation of an original product development. However, studies illustrate that development ...

How to teach design for manufacturability at micro scale tasks

Schulze, Volker; Zanger, Frederik; Hoppen, Philipp // 2013
Designing for manufacturability is a big challenge for every designer. Every manufacturing process has its characteristics and its limits. Costs and manufacturing time are often difficult to ...

Improving the Systems Engineering Process with Multi-Domain Mapping

Eppinger, S.D.; Joglekar, N.R.; Olechowski, A.; Teo, T. // 2013
The systems engineering V (SE-V) is the standard model to guide development of complex engineering projects (INCOSE 2011). The SE-V involves decomposition and integration of system elements through a ...

Is specialist designer an oxymoron? The value of specialisation in the design field

Gulari, Melehat Nil; Fairburn, Sue // 2013
“Jack-of-all-trades, master of none” is a figure of speech that suits generalists well. Having special knowledge is usually confused with being an expert. Does it mean that a non-specialist or a ...

Managing Iterations in the Modular Real Estate Development Process

Eppinger, S.D.; Bonelli, S.; Gonzalez, A.M. // 2013
Real estate development (RED) is a dynamic business with long-duration projects involving multiple parties with both common and sometimes conflicting goals. With large capital budgets in RED ...

Market performance prediction based conceptual design of mid-sized passenger aircrafts

Han, Soon Young; Choi, Hae-Jin // 2013
evelopment time and/or rapidly changing market situation. Addressing this critical issue, we provide a framework, strategic product design, in which one may design a product to be sustainable from ...

Modelling of memories through design

Gulden, Tore // 2013
This article explores how to design for product longevity. The design approach Contexts of Experience (COE) makes the basis for this interdisciplinary study which combines research on ...

Out of the lecture and into the studio: a new take on teaching design history

Howell, Bryan; Christensen, Kimberly // 2013
Studio-based instructional models have been a central landmark of architecture and design education for nearly 100 years. However, studio models are typically found only in courses teaching design ...

Overcoming design fixation through education and creativity methods

Howard, Thomas J.; Maier, Anja M.; Onarheim, Balder; Friis-Olivarius, Morten // 2013
This paper reports an experiment on the topic design fixation using 12 teams of masters students working on three design problems from (Jansson and Smith 1991). The objective of the experiment is to ...

People, place, process: Lessons learnt on the path to a d.school

Hillen, Véronique B; Levy, Pierre // 2013
Since 2006, Design Thinking education programs for master-level students have been developed at Ponts ParisTech, a leading French engineering school. This paper presents a longitudinal study of the ...

Preliminary simulations of scale and value of legitimation in design practice

Singh, Vishal; Gero, John S // 2013
This paper presents preliminary simulation results on the effects of scale and value of legitimation in design practice. The paper describes a basic simulation model, which adopts legitimation code ...

Quantification of perceptual design attributes using a crowd

Ren, Yi; Burnap, Alex; Papalambros, Panos // 2013
Crowdsourcing processes can be used for design concept creation and evaluation. They also provide opportunities to study and model quantitatively how humans deal with design problems. This paper ...

Reflection in design practice – quality assurance of practical training in product design education

Skjelbred, Bente; Berg, Arild // 2013
Students’ experiences through practical training can be used for curriculum development based on interactive research between education and work practice. To work collaboratively and reflect during ...

Save a napkin, save a tree: The role of metaphors in product design to change behavior

Montazeri, Soodeh; Finkbiner, David; Papalambros, Panos; Gonzalez, Richard // 2013
In this paper we study the role of metaphorical design concepts in triggering a mindful consumption behavior. Through a retrospective study on persuasive metaphorical designs for behavior change, we ...

Technology as a design strategy for products useful for elderly people in Indian context

Kumar, Aditya; Das, Amarendra Kumar // 2013
The number of Elderly People in India is increasing and this has opened up a new area in products and services to cater to this need. Until now due to the prevailing joint family structure, elderly ...

The use of systematic and heuristic methods in the basic design cycle: a comparative survey of students’ method usage

Person, Oscar; Daalhuizen, Jaap; Gattol, Valentin // 2013
In the present paper, we study the reported use of systematic and heuristic methods for 304 students enrolled in a master-level course on design theory and methodology. What to teach design and ...

Tolerance Optimization of a Mobile Phone Considering Consumer Demand for Quality and Sustainability in China, Sweden, and the United States

Hoffenson, Steven; Dagman, Andreas; Söderberg, Rikard // 2013
Dimensional tolerances are chosen during the product development process to balance quality requirements against manufacturing costs. Designers typically judge how much variance should be allowed ...

Triangulating front end engineering design activities with physiology data and psychological preferences

Steinert, Martin; Jablokow, Kathryn // 2013
lot data from an exploratory triangulation of front end engineering design activities with physiology data and psychological preferences. The aim is to gain more measurement control over engineering ...

Using qualitative research methods in engineering design research

Daly, Shanna; McGowan, Anna; Papalambros, Panos // 2013
In order to support successful strategies in design education and practice, we must have a deep understanding of the complex dynamics of design processes, teams, contexts, and systems. Facilitating ...

What do the concept generation techniques of TRIZ, Morphological Analysis and Brainstorming have in common?

Kannengiesser, Udo; Williams, Christopher; Gero, John // 2013
One of the goals of design research is to identify regularities across different design processes. This paper presents experimental evidence that there exist commonalities between three separate ...

"Critical Mass of Ideas": A Model of Incubation in Brainstorming

Sosa, R.; Gero, J. S. // 2012
This paper presents the results of experiments with a computational model of group brainstorming as an environment to study the role of incubation in creativity. In this model, exploration refers to ...

A CYBERNETIC PERSPECTIVE ON METHODS AND PROCESS MODELS IN COLLABORATIVE DESIGNING

Maier, A. M.; Wynn ,D. C.; Andreasen, M. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2012
This article considers the creation and use of Design methods and process models from a cybernetic perspective. We suggest that a process model and method are similar in nature, in that they both ...

A Market Systems Analysis of the U.S. Sport Utility Vehicle Market Considering Frontal Crash Safety Technology and Policy

Hoffenson, Steven; Frischknecht, Bart; Papalambros, Panos // 2012
Active safety features and adjustments to the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) consumer-information crash tests have the potential to decrease the number of serious injuries on United States (U.S.) ...

Boolean Searches

The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:

  • design community
    Find rows that contain at least one of the two words.
  • +design +community
    Find rows that contain both words.
  • +design community
    Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”.
  • +design -community
    Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”.
  • +design ~community
    Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not.
  • +design +(>community <decisions)
    Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions”
  • design*
    Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”.
  • "some words"
    Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.

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