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AN INFORMATION REQUIREMENT STRATEGY FOR CAPTURING AND ANALYSING DESIGN ACTIVITY AND BEHAVIOUR
Cash, P. J.; Hicks, B. J.; Culley, S. J. // 2010
This paper forms part of the wider ongoing discussion on the issues and possible mitigating techniques present in empirical design research today. There are many methods which aim to develop rigour, ...
Approach towards a more Flexible Handling of Domains in ComplexSystems
Kohn, A.; Lindemann, U. // 2010
Design Structure Matrix (DSM), Domain Mapping Matrix (DMM) and Multiple Domain Matrix (MDM) methodologies offer a wide range for modelling and analysing complex systems. All these methodologies model ...
Art-ethnography to Analyze the Role of Sketches in Car Designing
Eguchi, Michiro; Okada, Takeshi // 2010
In this study, we investigate the design process of car making at a Japanese car company. Using 161 sketches that a designer produced during the car design process, we analyze which areas of the car ...
BOTTOM-UP KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN PSS DESIGN. A CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK
Bertoni, M. // 2010
The paper presents an approach to visualize the knowledge sharing capabilities of Web 2.0 tools and mash-ups in the design of Product Service Systems. Drawing on data from the Swedish manufacturing ...
Brainstorming is a Bowl of Spaghetti: An In Depth Study of Collaborative Design Process and Creativity Methods with Experienced Design Practitioners
Gongora, Layda; Dix, Alan // 2010
This article reports the findings of a study which comprised in depth interviews and an exercise using visual aids conducted at Philips research and Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands ...
CLASSIFICATION AND SYNTHESIS OF DESIGN THEORIES
Geis, C.; Birkhofer, H. // 2010
Models and methodologies for designing are numerous nowadays and no holistic approach, which combines all models, exists so far. Nonetheless, all of these models were developed with specific ...
Communicative affordance of industrial design sketching
Razzaghi, Mohammad; Nouri, Mobina // 2010
Design sketching, as a key designing technique and a rapid visual demonstration of design thinking, reasoning, and exploration, is being vastly utilized by industrial designers to communicate ...
CREATIVITY IN VIRTUAL DESIGN TEAMS
Chamakiotis, P.; Dekoninck, E. A.; Panteli, N. // 2010
Virtual Teams are an increasingly seen phenomenon in the digitally-mediated global workplace. The creativity of Virtual Design Teams, a quite popular working arrangement amongst contemporary ...
CULTURAL CUSTOMIZATION OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES’ COMPONENTS
Aryana, B.; Boks, C. // 2010
Modularity of products and using a configuration system are two characteristics of mass customization, which has gained importance in contemporary industries. Culture is among those user ...
David and Goliath Crossing the Bridge
Christiaans, Henri; Almendra, Rita Assoreira // 2010
This paper presents the comparison of two different Design Education institutions regarding: a) the existence, weight and role of research disciplines in the Design program; b) the theme and nature ...
Design Education as a Passport to Professional Practice
Tovey, Michael John; Bull, Karen // 2010
The idea of a community of professional practice is a powerful one. There are communities of design practitioners for such groups as architects, graphic designers and others (this is illustrated ...
Design education as research playground
Sonneveld, Marina Henrieke // 2010
Most design researchers working in Design Schools are involved in design education. These two activities, research and education, have the potential to feed and inspire each other, because they ...
Design Thinking: An Educational Model towards Creative Confidence
Rauth, Ingo; Köppen, Eva; Jobst, Birgit; Meinel, Christoph // 2010
Design creativity is one of the most relevant fields in design and innovation. To better understand the effectiveness and origin of it, this study draws attention to the question of how design ...
Design, Make, Test
Childs, Peter;Robb, David // 2010
In the UK in the 1970s and early 1980s examples of best practice pedagogic experience included the egg-race type of design and make projects embodied in the student projects run by Ken Wallace at the ...
Dissection of a car: an interesting and instructive experience for industrial design students
Rismoen, Jon Herman; Mathisen, Mats Richard // 2010
Dissection of a car has been an annual project for the 3rd year students enrolled to the Industrial Design study program at Department of Product Design, NTNU. The aim of the dissection has been to ...
DoDesign: A Tool for Creativity-based Innovation
Wuytens, Karen; Willems, Bert // 2010
This paper describes the results of a pilot project set up to develop the concept behind DoDesign. DoDesign is a design tool and platform aimed at stimulating designers towards innovative designs ...
DSM-Directed Chip Design and Verification
Minogue, P. // 2010
The current approach to integrated circuit (I.C.), or chip, design is not always optimum in terms of “Design-for-Layout”. Ideally, it is good practice to create the design schematics and layout so ...
Dynamics and diversity in use: implications for aesthetics and usability
van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; Eggink, Wouter // 2010
The ease of use or usability of a product depends not only on product characteristics, but on the user characteristics and environment in which a product is used as well. Products that are used in ...
Early Phase Concept Evaluation
Vanhatalao, Mikko; Pakkanen, Jarkko; Lehtonen, Timo; Riitahuhta, Asko; Juuti, Tero // 2010
Designer has to do crucial decisions at fairly early design phase. Thus there is a need a tool for the evaluation of a concept. We present a tool for concept evaluation at the point where the design ...
ERGONOMIC ASSESSMENT IN CONCEPTUAL AND EMBODIMENT DESIGN
Sušic, A.; Štorga, M.; Majic, M. // 2010
The aim of the study reported in this paper was development of the metrics for ergonomic assessment that could be utilized by engineers in conceptualization and embodiment design. As an initial step ...
Ethics in Product Design Curriculum: An example from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Keitsch, Martina Maria; Bjørstad, Nina // 2010
The scope of design research and practice has successively changed - from a focus on material aspects to a focus on the intangible, from functions to pleasure, from goods to services and values [1]. ...
Examining the Possibilities of Identifying and Modeling Correlations between Product Families and Business Processes
Jepsen, Allan Dam; Hvam, Lars // 2010
In order for companies to make well founded decisions on the product family makeup, an understanding of the correlation between the complexity of the product family and business processes is ...
EXTENDING THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN DESIGN(ERS) AND DISABLED USE(RS): FROM CONVERSATION TO EMBODIED SKILL
Nijs, G.; Vermeersch, P. W.; Devlieger, P.; Heylighen, A. // 2010
This paper considers how through dialogue the relationship between architectural design and disability can yield opportunities instead of constraints. Two cases drawn from ongoing ethnographic design ...
Find The Gap – developing abilities in space consciousness for enhanced learning
Simpson-Little, Diane; Long, Christopher // 2010
Creativity and design is ultimately about making things that are visible, whether it is a chair, a sculpture, a poem or a theory. Nevertheless, it is where the initial creativity occurs in the ...
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.