Helten,Katharina; Schenkl,Sebastian; Lindemann,Udo // 2011
Biomimeticsbecome a more and more attracting topic in the field of product development. Whereas most literature aims for a codification of biology knowledge in order tomake it usable in fferent forms ...
Lockwood, Joseph Benjamin; McAra-McWilliam, Irene; Reid, Iain // 2011
‘Creating Cultures of Innovation’ is a unique project that works with Scottish Industry to embed creativity as a collective skill within organisations. Supported by the Scottish Funding Council and ...
Galea, Amanda; Borg, Jonathan; Grech, Alexia; Farrugia, Philip // 2011
During the design process, designers are concerned with two main types of issues - issues related to “what needs to be achieved” or “whats” and issues related to “how these needs will be met” or ...
Harkema, Christelle; Luyk - de Visser, Ilse; Dorst, Kees; Brombacher, Aarnout // 2011
Product usability is necessary to ensure efficient and effective products which satisfy users. But despite all available usability techniques many users still experience usability problems when using ...
Kroll, Ehud; Shihmanter, Alexander // 2011
Design knowledge is a key asset that companies find difficult to capture and access. Since most design is redesign, being able to use prior knowledge effectively is crucial. A record of the design ...
Sudin, Mohd Nizam; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema // 2011
Specification is an integral part of the product development process. Frequently, more than a single version of a specification is produced due to changes in requirements. These changes are often ...
Currano, Rebecca M.; Steinert, Martin; Leifer, Larry J. // 2011
Innovation is in part driven by creative ideation, particularly in the fuzzy front-end of the design process, which has been described and studied as a process of reflection-in-action [1]. We ...
Gericke, Kilian; Blessing, Luciënne // 2011
Challenges resulting from an changing environment affect all design processes, irrespective of whether the product designed is a machine, software, a building, services, etc.. These challenges ...
Canina, Marita; Coccioni, Elisabetta // 2011
The aim of this paper is to describe the didactic experimentation conducted on the involvement of the user in the design process at the Politecnico of Milan during the Final Synthesis Design Studio ...
Verma,Kumar Alok; Das,Kumar Lalit ; Erande,Surendra Ameya // 2011
Use of lean principles in product design process reduces time and cost of designs but it does not look at creativity in design. Creativity in design process is one of the important parameters ...
Aksnes, Dagfinn // 2011
As design thinking and design competence become more sought after across society and globally, there appears to be a need to develop strategies and good practice in delivering learning and teaching ...
Muthumani,Arun; Bhattacharya,Bishakh // 2011
The visual appearance of a product is a critical factor for its success which is often influenced by the sociocultural aspect of the ontextwhere it is widely used. The product can vary fromsmall ...
Wodehouse, Andrew J; Maclachlan, Ross; Grierson, Hilary J; Strong, David // 2011
This paper explores the relationship between culture and performance in concept design. Economic globalisation has meant that the management of global teams has become of strategic importance in ...
Hehenberger, Peter; Farrokhzad, Babak; Poltschak, Florian // 2011
Mechatronics design is integration of mechanics, electronics and software. As new functionality in products is realized to a large extent through integration of mechanics, electronics and software ...
Winkelman, Paul // 2011
Design methodologies can serve the purposes of description, prescription, or the creation of norms. A given methodology can display features of all three. In such cases, does the presence of all ...
Petersen, Soren Ingomar; Steinert, Martin; Beckman, Sara L. // 2011
Design practice and anecdotal evidence point to the existence of a chasm between business plan generation and the execution. The failure to including vital industrial design criteria in these plans ...
Jowers, Iestyn; Prats, Miquel; McKay, Alison; Garner, Steve // 2011
uter-aided design systems, offer poor support for shape reinterpretation, and are not well suited to ideation in early stages of design. A key difficulty in implementing systems that support shape ...
Junk, Stefan; Tränkle, Marco // 2011
The application of additive manufacturing technologies is becoming established in an increasing number of product development sectors. This allows a number of additive manufacturing technologies to ...
Wendland, Michael; Sadek, Tim // 2011
The increasing competitiveness and the need to create innovative products force manufacturers to replace conventional technologies in their products by new technologies, thus injecting uncertainty in ...
Jagtap,Santosh; Kandachar,Prabhu // 2011
Over the past several years, the design and development of products and services for the ‘Base of the Pyramid’ (BoP) markets has been investigated by several authors from different disciplines. A ...
Howell, Bryan; Christensen, Seth // 2011
An engaging story is at the heart of every notable design. this paper proposes a method of teaching students hw to employ narrative in their own design work. Students first construct a short, ...
Gramlich, Sebastian; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
Automation of the product development process or of sub-processes is one possibility to support designers by their daily work. A concept for a formalized and structured description of ...
Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Sang Won; Lee, Jee-Hyong; Han, Dae Man; Lee, Hye Kyung // 2011
This paper discusses design support tools for product-service systems (PSS). During PSS design process comprising six phases such as requirement identification and value targeting, stakeholder ...
Oriakhi, Edgar; Linsey, Julie; Peng, Xiaobo // 2011
Design-by-Analogy is an approach that is widely embraced by designers seeking innovation. The identification of analogies is difficult, often spontaneous and not done by a systematic design process. ...