Da Silva Vieira, Sonia Liliana; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Fernandes, Antonio Augusto; Fonseca, Teresa // 2011
The present research attempts to contribute to the understanding of how designers’ thinking and acting enhance the value of the design process and deliver value to design results. The present study ...
Mizuno, Yuji; Kishita, Yusuke; Wada, Haruna; Hirosaki, Maki; Fukushige, Shinichi; Umeda, Yasushi // 2011
Environmental problems such as resource depletion or climate change are the most serious problems for society and industry. In order to deal with such problems, scenario writing is a useful ...
de Vere, Ian; Kapoor, Ajay; Melles, Gavin // 2011
Sketching is integral to the design process, as it allows reflection in action, enables ambiguity and abstraction, encourages the unexpected, externalises mental imagery, and provokes creativity ...
Pepe, Carla; Whitney, Daniel; Henriques, Elsa; Farndon, Rob; Moss, Michael // 2011
The complexity of designing products such as gas turbine components leads to enormous difficulties in understanding where the main design process inefficiencies are. It is extremely difficult to ...
Heidweiller, Anton Jozef; van der Voort, Eric; Wisse, Gerald // 2011
The paper evaluates an online modelling tool (developments costs were about 210,000 euro), that has been developed three years ago [1,2]. Aim of the tool is to show students how to apply a structured ...
Utriainen, Tuuli Maria; Sonninen, Antti; Kulse, Maria // 2011
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how short should design cycles be. In an iterative design process, two-week cycles might be too long when a design project is in the discovery phase. In an ...
Behrisch, Johannes Christoph; Ramirez, Mariano; Giurco, Damien // 2011
This paper presents the results of an empirical study, investigating the uptake of ecodesign by industrial design consultancies (ID consultancies) in Australia, China, Germany and the USA.
There ...
Crisp, Alan Roy; Arthur, Leslie; Hardy, Christine // 2011
The synergy of design education and business innovation although much talked and written of is less than tangible, indeed tenuous by nature. Immediately one asks can creativity and innovation be ...
Vaes, Kristof Romain Victor; Corremans, Jan; Moons, Ingrid // 2011
Increased empathy and direct contact with users can provide a valuable resource for designers, who often design products for use outside their own experience. Learning design students to research, ...
Choi, Young Mi // 2011
User input is a critical component to any product design project. Product design approaches and methods provide proven frameworks for utilizing input once it has been collected. However, these ...
Shin, Cliff; Benson, Eric; McDonagh, Deana // 2011
Sustainability as a concept has begun to be more fully integrated into the American undergraduate design curricula. Our design students are more aware than previous generations of the increasing need ...
Yannou, Bernard; Jankovic, Marija; Leroy, Yann // 2011
Product-service innovation projects in industrial contexts are not yet supported by clear theories and methodologies. In the last years we have developed and experimented on a new Radical Innovation ...
Rosenqvist, Tanja Schultz; Lindegaard, Hanne; Jørgensen, Ulrik // 2011
In this paper we share and analyze our experiences staging a co-design process in which we through different interventions engage important stakeholders in designing. Our experiences are taking from ...
Maclachlan, Ross John Robert // 2011
Product design students typically undertake multidisciplinary curricular studying components of both mechanical and electrical engineering to complement studio and project-based learning of design ...
Poulet, Aurelien; Rose, Bertrand; Caillaud, Emmanuel // 2011
The current competitive environment urges all companies to launch actions striving to improve their activities, in regards to products, processes, or organizational aspects. But how to intervene? ...
Fischer, Christian; Franke, Jörg // 2011
In this paper, the typical product development process for spatial Molded Interconnect Devices (3D-MID), the underlying product model as well as the addition of an optical partial model are ...
van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke // 2011
Products that are used by a variety of users in varying contexts (dynamic and diverse use situations) are difficult to design because it is hard to predict the situations in which the product will be ...
Skulberg, Harald // 2011
In product design practice, design problems may occur on different levels and through different stages of a design process. The diversity of these different levels - from an abstract philosophical, ...
Gumienny, Raja; Lindberg, Tilmann; Meinel, Christoph // 2011
Information synthesis is an important part of design processes as it ensures to integrate, organize, filter, and evaluate essential information and constraints for the design solution. However, there ...
Liang, Helen; Birch, David // 2011
The advent of computer-based tools to aid the design process has meant that larger set of design parameters can be taken into consideration. It also means that other factors, such as those associated ...
Kain, Andreas Stefan; Kirschner, Rafael Johannes; Lang, Alexander; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
Open innovation makes the company’s border permeable for knowledge exchange with outside world. Various ways exist on which ideas can flow into the company’s product development process as well as ...
Morgan, David // 2011
During any iterative design process some versions are of such character that they go beyond design iteration and constitute what could be called a design translation. Design translations can generate ...
Liem, Andre // 2011
The ability to communicate effectively, honestly and convincingly to design clients, according to the required level of understanding, is important to facilitate decision making in the designing ...
Novak, Marina; Dolsak, Bojan // 2011
In design education project based learning is essential in order to simulate real-life design process. For this reason the students need to face a design problem, which has not been satisfactory ...