Skulberg, Harald // 2017
Industry’s increasing expectations for optimization within product design are clearly evidenced today. Designing physical objects for mass production involves a range of critical considerations. As ...
Asbjorn Sorensen, Charlotte; Warell, Anders; Jagtap, Santosh // 2017
suggest (a) that risk management has a major influence on the material selection process, (b) that negotiations of project boundaries in the ‘fuzzy’ pre-design phase has crucial influence on the risk ...
Chan, Wing Mui Helen; de Bont, Cees // 2017
Mindfulness has aroused great interests in the past few decades and researches on mindfulness conducted have suggested that it is related to increase in awareness, creativity, quality ...
Nguyen, Philon; Zeng, Yong // 2017
Modal shifts are said to indicate heightened creativity in the conceptual design process. These modal shifts are traditionally detected using concurrent verbal protocols. However, it is known that ...
Mahboob, Atif; Weber, Christian; Husung, Stephan; Liebal, Andreas; Krömker, Heidi // 2017
Today, the designers have to deal with a great amount of uncertainties in the design process due to the lack of information about the product, its behaviour and the context in later life-phases ...
Rajapaksha, Janaka; Mirkovic, Katja; Robinson, David; Wynn, David // 2017
Analysing effect of coordination on performance of complex Product Development (PD) processes and understanding impact of change within PD processes on performance have been recognised as pivotal in ...
Juranic, Jasmin; Pavkovic, Neven; Naumann, Thomas; Marjanovic, Dorian // 2017
The aim of the presented research is to develop methods and tools which would enable consistent dynamic updating and propagation of updated design information in teamwork in a manner that will not ...
Zeiler, Wim // 2017
The need for nearly zero energy and environmentally sustainable buildings introduced further complexity in the design process of buildings. This calls for a holistic integral design approach with the ...
Vance, Julia K.; Giambalvo, Jack; Hoffenson, Steven // 2017
Many design approaches are used and taught in industry and academia, and it is difficult even for seasoned design professionals to know which to use. These design approaches were developed in ...
Herrmann, Thorsten; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2017
The high failure rate of trials for implementing radical innovations underlines a demand for supporting the development process for new radical innovations. This demand has arisen in many companies ...
McGregor, Angus; Gooch, Shayne; Webb, Evan // 2017
Len Lye (1901-1980) was an artist who wanted to build kinetic sculptures at a monumental size however he was constrained by the availability of resources and technology. This paper examines the ...
Schmid, Alexander; Jacobs, Georg; Löwer, Manuel; Katzwinkel, Tim; Schmidt, Walter; Siebrecht, Justus // 2017
Product conceptualization is an essential part of each product emergence process. A valid and context-sensitive selection and validation of appropriate product concepts in early stages of product ...
Hoftijzer, J. // 2017
Since the field of industrial design to a great extend concerns the creative development of three-dimensional objects, project communication is often a visual matter. The activity of design drawing ...
Klapwijk, Anna Jeannette; Kostoulas, Nemo; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2017
Involving end-users early in the process of New Product Development (NPD) has proven leading positive effects on further developments of the design and success of new products. In the early stages of ...
Schweigert, Sebastian; Schöner, Martin; Lindemann, Udo // 2017
The emergence of computer-aided systems and especially numerical methods has revolutionized the product development process. Several types of simulations and calculations during the process are ...
Baxter, Weston; Aurisicchio, Marco; Mugge, Ruth; Childs, Peter R. N. // 2017
The purpose of this paper is to present contaminated interaction as a design construct. Interactions with an object can be altered, positively, neutrally or negatively, due to some prior use. In such ...
Sellen, Kate M // 2017
Different communities, organizations, and people hold different views on their own and others wellbeing. It is often challenging to balance different perspectives during the design process when the ...
Mattmann, Ilyas; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Kirchner, Eckhard // 2017
Existing development approaches usually focus on the product function as the starting point of development activities, since function fulfilment is the main carrier to ensure stakeholder satisfaction ...
Timo, Richter; Felix, Schumacher; Hagen, Watschke; Thomas, Vietor // 2017
Additive manufacturing processes have become a viable alternative to conventional manufacturing for end-use products due to its potentials like tool-less production, and capabilities to realize new ...
Martinez, Victor Gerardo // 2017
Along the design process many decisions and compromises are made in order to reach a final design solution. In literature is commonly accepted that tackling sustainability issues at early stages ...
Jaskiewicz, Tomasz; van der Helm, Aadjan // 2017
This paper presents “progress cards” as a tool that supports design students in planning and reflecting on their design processes, while providing design studio coaches and design methods researchers ...
Brandy, Anthony; Mantelet, Fabrice; Aoussat, Améziane; Pigot, Pierre-Vincent // 2017
Usability is a key notion in most of products, especially for the medical devices. Nevertheless, sometimes this notion can be shelved in favour of other priorities such as reliability of the product. ...
Maya, Jorge; Betancur-Rodríguez, Daniel // 2017
The use of prototypical product shapes allows to structure and support the intuitive aesthetic design process. Prototypicality, a cognitive variable, is the extent to which an object represents a ...
Jensen, Matilde Bisballe; Blindheim, Jřrgen; Steinert, Martin // 2017
This paper presents an evaluation of nine laser cut living hinges in terms of their ability to resemble earlier defined properties of mechanical shape-changing interfaces. Such interfaces are ...