Bruun, Hans Peter Lomholt; Mortensen, Niels Henrik // 2012
The objective for the paper is to determine the role of a product architecture modelling tool to support communication and to form the basis for developing and maintaining product structures for ...
Späth, Rainer; Hesse, Miriam; Kohn, Andreas // 2012
The product development process in the automotive industry comprises a large number of interdisciplinary actors. This results in very complex communication situations, with a large variety of ...
de Pauw ,I. C.; Karana, E.; Kandachar ,P. V. // 2012
In design practice, Nature-Inspired Design Strategies (NIDS) can be applied when developing sustainable products. However, knowledge on how this actually helps designers is lacking. This study ...
Allen, T.L.; Chornyak, B.A. // 2012
Within the field of design practice, we are consistently confronted with constraints, imposed by clients, our limited resources and outside circumstances. Usually, these constraints are viewed as ...
Matthiesen, S.; Ruckpaul, A. // 2012
The paper is about the description of logical states with the Contact&Channel-Approach. The approach supports designer during the product development process by enabling to model the connection ...
Duan, WU // 2012
The Aalto-Tongji Design Factory in Shanghai is a creative environment bringing together universities, business and society to create new ways of learning, research and innovative collaboration. As ...
Loudon, G. H.; Deininger, G. M.; Gordon, B. S. // 2012
Play has started to be recognised as having an affect upon the creative design process, but mainly in terms of playing with prototypes. In this study we explore play a little further to understand ...
Christian, Mclening; Lyndon, Buck // 2012
This study explores the ongoing pedagogical development of a number of undergraduate design and engineering programmes in the United Kingdom. Observations and data have been collected over several ...
Pourtalebi, Shahab; Pouralvar, Kazem // 2012
Nowadays products are expected to undertake their functions properly and the competition for satisfying consumer is in the field of product attachments and emotional characteristics. Products have a ...
Luft ,T.; Wartzack ,S. // 2012
This paper provides a methodology for analysing requirements for a knowledge management system that consists basically of a management and search functionality. On basis of a theoretical developed ...
Luft, Thomas; Wartzack, Sandro // 2012
Knowledge and information are nowadays the most important factors for the development of modern and innovative products. Therefore the efficient management and contextual supply of knowledge is ...
Vielhaber, Michael; Dohr, Fabio; Luedeke, Tobias // 2012
From the beginnings of design methodology, the way how to teach and to learn engineering design has been controversially discussed. “School culture” and “shop culture” are terms representing this ...
Yu, R.; Gu, N.; Ostwald, M. // 2012
Current literature shows that there is a lack of empirical evidence support the understanding of design creativity in parametric design environments (PDEs). Situated creativity which regards the ...
de Vere, Ian; Melles, Gavin; Kapoor, Ajay // 2012
Sketching is often described as the first language of designers and it is a critical skill for engineers and designers as it enables the multiple social and cognitive functions represented by drawing ...
Zeiler, W. // 2012
In order to support creative team design in the conceptual building design phase, a design method was developed: integral design. Integral design uses morphological charts, which are made by the ...
Skulberg, Harald // 2012
Designers are increasingly challenged by demands defined by environmental concerns, technological optimization, logistics and functional efficiency. In order to handle this complexity, designers have ...
VO, Markus // 2012
Engineering Design is not teachable without letting students explore the design process on their own. Therefore students are often confronted with open-ended problems in Engineering Design projects. ...
Mougenot, C.; Watanabe, K. // 2012
This paper examines the role of designers‘ own experience and perception in the process of designing new products, based on an experimental approach with designers. So far, most design studies have ...
Garland, Nigel Patrick; Khan, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Palmer, Sarah // 2012
Within the higher education sector there has been progress incorporating or embedding sustainable development concepts into the engineering and design curriculum. Despite guidance from the ...
Liem, Andre // 2012
The motivation for undertaking collaborative design projects within the context of consultant – client relationships, is not only to train design students to solve complex design problems, but also ...
De Keersmaecker, Ann; Jacoby, Alexis; Baelus, Chris // 2012
Technology to Product is a software tool to support technology driven innovation at the Front End of Innovation. The tool is result of a close collaboration with researchers (Artesis University ...
Daniel, John // 2012
Earlier studies demonstrate the importance of visualizing problems, and how the sketch manages to catch the ambiguity of the design process. It creates new ways for idea generation in an individual ...
Pereira, Á.; Tschimmel, K. // 2012
The creation of jewelry involves processes, which are often very experimental and intuitive, encompassing both the creative process and production techniques. In this paper, which is based on a ...
Visser, Froukje Sleeswijk; Stappers, Pieter Jan // 2012
Recently, both media and practice are dealing with a wave of interest in “service design”. Some present this as a radically new approach to product development that overarches the established ...