Lutnćs, Eva // 2017
Creativity is a key concept in the scientific discourse of design education. Conducting a word search, the concepts ‘creative’ and/or ‘creativity’ featured 128 of the 165 papers published at the ...
Falk, Björn ); Stylidis, Konstantinos Wickman, Casper ; Söderberg, Rikard ; Schmitt, Robert // 2017
The development of competitive products is not a question of unique and expensive features but of best quality for money. Yet, defining quality from a customer’s perspective and realizing it ...
Siegel, Antje; Weber, Christian; Albers, Albert; Landes, David; Behrendt, Matthias // 2017
Acoustic product properties are playing an increasingly important role for product developers and designers. At the one hand the sound of a product has influence on the buying behavior of customers ...
Ghazanfari, Ehsan; Singh, Vishal // 2017
Structured sharing is believed to improve resource effectiveness of design solutions by allowing multiple functions to be achieved from the same shared structure. The current measures for assessing ...
Scheidel, Wieben; Mozgova, Iryna; Lachmayer, Roland // 2017
Nowadays a product development process is often based on experience and collected product lifecycle information. The communication between machines and equipment and a consistency throughout the ...
Hendrik, Lembeck; Thomas, Vietor; David, Inkermann // 2017
The design of frictional systems is a challenging task because of the quan-tity of occurring physical effects and their interactions. During the design process it is often not transparent how changes ...
Marvin, Richrath; Michael, Brink; Jan, Franke; Klaus-Dieter, Thoben // 2017
This paper presents a methodological approach for the development of handling units for technical textiles. Virtual and experimental product devel-opment steps supplement the product development ...
Lobbé, Justine; Bazzaro, Florence; Charrier, Marjorie; Sagot, Jean-Claude // 2017
Users today are looking for an experience and not only for technology. Products must be acceptable and desirable, and in this regard must be designed with the needs and desires of the end user. To ...
Mozgova, Iryna; Barton, Sebastian; Demminger, Christian; Miebach, Timo; Taptimthong, Piriya; Lachmayer, Roland; Nyhuis, Peter; Reimche, Wilfried; Wurz, Marc Christopher // 2017
Industry 4.0 opens great potentials in development and production processes by networking of machines and systems as well as all processes along the lifecycle components. E. g., new developed ...
Andersen, Emil; Maier, Anja // 2017
The use of colour is an integral component in visual interface design for creating separation between objects and for conveying meaning. It has previously been established that colours can be ...
de Paula, Danielly; Menning, Axel; Ewald, Benedikt; Cormican, Kathryn // 2017
A careful user needs assessment is one of the essential factors in the successful development of new products and services. Strategies for need assessment are often used to assess and select ideas ...
Mřller, Louise // 2017
In design schools and university we need to teach students how to frame their projects in ways that create a significant and new perspective on the problem situation as well as clear direction for ...
Franchini, Giulia; Dosi, Clio; Vignoli, Matteo // 2017
The current product innovation scenario is facing important changes that require the New Product Development (NPD) process to be adjusted. Despite Stage and Gate (SG) is the most adopted framework, ...
Loy, Jennifer; Canning, Samuel // 2017
Engineering and design in the twentieth century were conventionally taught from opposite ends of an educational spectrum. Engineering education built certainty on a strong foundation of fundamental ...
Heredia Jiménez, Juan Antonio; Whitfield, Robert Ian; Ward, Michael; Grierson, Hilary // 2017
Published work on product-oriented customisation lacks clarity in establishing how it is characterised, how it is bounded, and how one would define increasing levels of customisation. This paper ...
Zhang, Shuai; Johnson, Aylmer // 2017
Efforts have been made by researchers in the area of knowledge management to understand engineers’ information searching behaviors, such as the types of information searched by engineers, and the ...
Urquhart, Lewis William Robert; Wodehouse, Andrew // 2017
The role of pattern use in the visual arts has not been fully analysed in terms of its emotive and semantic values. Patterns have played a dominant role in art, architecture and design for thousands ...
Andersen, Alexander Kjćr; Nafei, Nadiim; Planck, Michael; Nielsen, Louise Mřller // 2017
New Product Development (NPD) projects have continually become more complex over the years and now involve a diverse range of stakeholders, who have different disciplinary backgrounds, values, ...
Kirah, Anna // 2017
The future of design is a series of reflections from a design anthropological perspective. My job has often been to unveil truths for my clients. I have always said that there is no one truth, that ...
Winkelman, Paul Martin // 2017
In the minds of many, including engineers themselves, engineers are considered to be “practical”. But what is “practical” and what values does it promote? Building on a simple search in engineering ...
Papageorgiou, Athanasios; Ölvander, Johan // 2017
The work presented in this paper explores several concepts related to the design of complex engineering products and emphasizes on the effects of considering Multidisciplinary Design Optimization ...
Brisco, Ross; Whitfield, Robert Ian; Grierson, Hilary // 2017
The global design project challenges students from three European universities to work in engineering design teams on the development of a product. To execute the design process, students have chosen ...
Oizumi, Kazuya; Aoyama, Kazuhiro // 2017
“Y-gaya”, which is a habit that engineers thoroughly discuss for long period of time, has been seen as a prominent mechanism to realize synthesis of design leading to actualization of brand new ...
Han, Ji; Park, Dongmyung; Shi, Feng; Chen, Liuqing; Childs, Peter R. N. // 2017
Creativity is a crucial element of design, and a human attribute that has aroused significant attention. However, few studies have focused on the factors and motivations that drive creativity. The ...