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Design process commonalities in trans-disciplinary design

Qureshi, A.J.; Gericke, Kilian; Blessing, Lucienne // 2013
Contemporary product development has transformed from being mono-disciplinary to increasingly trans-disciplinary. Technology convergence and specialization of the knowledge are two distinctive trends ...

Design teamwork in distributed cross-cultural teams

Man, Jinfan; Lu, Yuan; Brombacher, Aarnout // 2013
In the recent decades, design teamwork in international teams has been taken into account to meet the requirement of product development with different cultural backgrounds in the context of ...

Designers’ promises or users’ expectations?

Gabelloni, Donata; Fantoni, Gualtiero // 2013
Several frameworks describe the design process, such as the FBS model and its extensions. Some of them present a designer-centric view, while the most recent ones are more based on the user’s point ...

Designing burial monuments to increase emotional awareness in product design

Stoltenberg, Einar; Berg, Arild // 2013
The motivation for writing this paper is the growing concern in society towards the amount of products we produce containing low utility and sustainability. Through emotional awareness the student ...

Designing crime prevention - A review of methods

Watson, Rodger Neil // 2013
The Designing Out Crime research centre (DOC) has now operated for almost 5 years. In this time the centre and its staff and students have worked on real life crime problems, using and developing ...

Designing on the road; exploring the who, where and why of individual mobility devices.

van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; van der Molen, Pieta; van der Voort, Mascha // 2013
The aim of this study is to support designers in dealing with the variety of situations in which product are used, so-called dynamic and diverse use situations (DDUS). Dealing with varying use ...

Development of a design process to design for people with dementia and their extended care network - Learning from a case study

Brankaert, Rens; den Ouden, Elke // 2013
In Europe we face an aging society with a growing number of people suffering from dementia. This challenge we face as a society, because current healthcare systems are not ready for such an increase. ...

Discursive constructions of design and implications for engineering education

Premer Petersen, Rikke // 2013
Recognition of design discourses at play in professional practice is key when discussing ways to reintroduce designerly ways in engineering education. This paper outlines three design discourses ...

Distribution of mental stresses during conceptual design activities

Nguyen, Thanh An; Xu, Xu; Zeng, Yong // 2013
In this paper, we study how different mental stress levels are distributed in a conceptual design process. Firstly, we reviewed a Stroop Test experiment conducted earlier in our lab to confirm the ...

Eco-design guidelines and eco-knowledge integration in product development process

Rossi, Marta; Germani, Michele; Mandolini, Marco; Marconi, Marco; Mengoni, Maura; Morbidoni, Alessandro // 2013
The product eco-sustainability is recognized as a key factor for competitive products and recently lots of international directives (guidelines) have been issued. This paper aims to define a new ...

EcoM2 web portal: Collecting empirical data and supporting companies' ecodesign implementation and management

Pigosso, Daniela; McAloone, Tim C.; Rozenfeld, Henrique // 2013
Despite the recognition of the potential benefits of ecodesign, a promising approach to integrate environmental concerns into the product development process, its application has failed to reach ...

Elaboration and assessment of a set of criteria for the evaluation of product ideas

Messerle, Mathias; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2013
It is important for companies to identify the most promising product ideas very early in the product development process in order to use the available resources for the “right” projects. ...

Enhancing supply chain collaboration in automotive industry by value driven simulation

Panarotto, Massimo; Larsson, Tobias C.; Larsson, Andreas // 2013
This paper presents a computer-based approach for conceptual design that aims to enhance collaborative supply chain development in the automotive sector when dealing with product-service development ...

Evaluating the failures criticality in collaborative design with suppliers

Personnier, Hélène; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Calvi, Richard // 2013
Innovation helps companies to increase their competitive position. Suppliers are an important source of innovation. Thus, successful collaborations with suppliers in New Product Development (NPD) can ...

Experience design tool: encouraging designers to consider different design and emotion strategies

Maclachlan, Mary; Wood, Bruce // 2013
This paper presents an overview of the existing research in the area of design and emotion and the resulting design strategies that have emerged to support it. Design strategies concerning, pleasure, ...

Exploratory study of the inclusion of territorial resources in design process

Allais, Romain; Tatiana, Reyes; Lionel, Roucoules // 2013
This article describes an exploratory study of the inclusion of territorial resources in a business's value-creating process through the application of a global and systemic ecodesign approach. ...

Extending the product specification with emotional aspects: Introducing user experience stories

Michailidou, Ioanna; von Saucken, Constantin; Lindemann, Udo // 2013
Emotional aspects of products play a vital role for the purchasing decision but are often neglected in conventional product development processes. In the task clarification design phase, in ...

Fighting poverty through design: Comparing design processes for the base and the top of the world income pyramid

Jagtap, Santosh; Larsson, Andreas; Hiort, Viktor; Olander, Elin; Warell, Anders; Khadilkar, Pramod // 2013
The base (BOP) and the top (TOP) of the world income pyramid represent the poor people and the people from developed countries, respectively. About two-fifths of the world population can be ...

Formulation and use of criteria for the evaluation of aesthetic attributes of products in engineering design

Roussos, Lampros; Dentsoras, Argyris // 2013
Constant and rapid technological progress, along with the evolution of design and production methods, permits the adoption of technological achievements and the embodiment of new features in ...

Framework for the development of maturity based self-assessments for process improvement

Kühn, Arno; Bensiek, Tobias; Gausemeier, Jürgen // 2013
Increasing productivity and competitiveness are still major challenges for companies. One approach for performance improvement are maturity models. Their main principle is an objective performance ...

Geometry as a tool for visual organization and proportion in designing aesthetic and attractive products

Velásquez Posada, Alejandra María // 2013
The goal of this paper is to present the teaching experiences and methodologies used in a Product Design Engineering undergraduate course called Design Project 3 (EAFIT University, Medellín - ...

Glass and wine: The indissoluble marriage

Venturi, Francesca; Zinnai, Angela; Fantoni, Gualtiero; Gabelloni, Donata; Razionale, Armando Viviano // 2013
The FBS model describes theoretically the design process of a product. Only few papers present real industrial case studies, which are generally finalized to illustrate theoretical concepts.
The aim ...

Implementing collaborative crowdsourcing in different design problems

Gabelloni, Donata; Montelisciani, Gabriele; Fantoni, Gualtiero // 2013
The new product development process increasingly involves multidisciplinary teams, that frequently do not belong to the same institution. Innovation often comes from external actors, as suppliers, ...

Implementing scenario to better address the use phase in product ecodesign

Domingo, Lucie; Brissaud, Daniel; Mathieux, Fabrice // 2013
Some product categories, like electro-domestics, generate most of their environmental impact during use phase. Yet, the integration of this product life-cycle stage has been a challenge for ...

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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