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Estimating Cost & Improving Trade-off between Performance and Cost at the Early Design Stages
Saravi, Mohammad; Newnes, Linda; Mileham, Tony; Goh, Yee-Mey // 2009
Typically 70% to 80% of a product's cost is said to have been committed by the end of the conceptual design stage [1]. Because of the importance of the conceptual stage, cost estimation should ...
Exploring digital rapid visualization in industrial design education
Shin, Dosun // 2009
Over the last two decades, industrial design practice has been changing due to the rapid growth of the software industry and the development of various computer-based design tools. As the scope and ...
Exploring Spaces of System Architectures using Constraint-based Classification and Euler Diagrams
Wyatt, D.; Wynn, D. C.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2009
Exploring the Integration of Spatial Grammars and Open-Source CAD Systems
Hoisl, Frank; Shea, Kristina // 2009
While Computer Aided Design (CAD) has made significant progress since its inception, CAD tools are still used primarily for design documentation rather than as active partners in the design process. ...
First Components to Support, to Make Durable and to Control Creative Inputs through Materials and Processes
Béranger, Anne; Bassereau, Jean-François; Aoussat, Améziane // 2009
Creativity in design allows ideas renewal and thus takes part in the dynamism and the longevity of a company. However, the creative individual draws his inspiration in various sources which in our ...
From Text to Design Solution: Inspiring Design Ideas with Texts
Goldschmidt, Gabriela; Litan Sever, Anat // 2009
A design is said to be as successful as the leading idea that drives it is. Mature designers make frequent use of 'stock ideas' accumulated over time and stored in memory and personal ...
Give Design a Break? The Role of Incubation Periods during Idea Generation
Cardoso, Carlos Coimbra; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2009
When tackling design problems, designers sometimes become too attached to particular ideas, either developed by them or induced by external exemplars. Inadequate adoption of features and principles ...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Affordances of Shared Models in Team Based Design
Edelman, Jonathan Antonio; Leifer, Larry; Banerjee, Banny; Sonalkar, Neeraj; Jung, Malte; Lande, Micah // 2009
Current scholarship in cognitive science and Science Technology Studies, has reconsidered the role media plays in knowledge gathering and acquisition. While the use of low-resolution physical ...
Innovation design engineering: non-linear progressive education for diverse intakes
Hall, Ashley; Childs, Peter // 2009
This paper discusses the non-linear progressive educational techniques developed and adopted by the Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) masters degree at the Royal College of Art and Imperial ...
Innovation Networks – Approaches to Derive Nodes and Edges Systematically
Kain, Andreas Stefan; Kirschner, Rafael Johannes; Lindemann, Udo; Gunkel, Jennifer; Klendauer, Ruth; Wastian, Monika; Schneider, Michael // 2009
Companies do usually not develop highly complex products incorporating extensive product structures on their own. Interoperation beyond the company's borders widens the scope of innovation to ...
Innovation the Long Way Round: Transferring Rapid Prototyping Technology into Fashion Design
Eckert, Claudia; Delamore, Phillip // 2009
Engineering processes often leave little space for exploration of new materials or production methods. In particular complex engineering processes are risk averse and goal focused. Innovation does ...
It's a Honda! for me... An exploratory student project on branding and product design for the older adult population
Person, Oscar; Warell, Anders; Karjalainen, Toni-Matti; Rahe, Ulrike // 2009
Physical as well as cognitive needs associated with aging and product usage were long the point of focus when designing for the older adult population, with coursework on ergonomics and humanfactors ...
Knowledge Transfer between Service and Design Phases in the Oil Industry
Vianello, Giovanna; Ahmed, Saeema // 2009
The communication between a company's departments involved in the different phases of product lifecycle is crucial in order to correct faults from previous products. This paper illustrates a ...
Mapping elements of assessment for learning within a global design studio
Bohemia, Erik; Harman, Kerry // 2009
This paper explores the utility of an Assessment for Learning discourse for articulating the curriculum design, delivery and assessment strategies employed in a Design Studio module currently being ...
Mechanisms of Model Change in Optimization and Inventive Problem Solving Methods
Rasovska, Ivana; Dubois, Sebastien; De Guio, Roland // 2009
Two problem solving techniques can be used to solve inventive problems: optimization methods and inventive methods. Looking for a solution could be described as browsing a knowledge space. This ...
Mechatronic Design – Historical Background and Challenges for the Future
Moehringer, Stefan // 2009
The cross-linking of mechanical components by means of electronics and information technology goes unstoppably forward. New functions, more safety and comfort - mechatronics opens success potentials. ...
Methodology for Part Visualization Problem Solving (Reading, Interpretation and Creation of Multiview Technical Drawings)
Sierra Uria, Egoitz; Garmendia Mujika, Mikel; Muniozguren Colindres, Javier; Larrakoetxea Madariaga, Isabel // 2009
Part visualization is a fundamental skill in engineering. It comprises the reading, interpretation and creation of industrial technical drawings. However, engineering students show certain learning ...
Performing high quality research into design practice
Valkenburg, Rianne; Kleinsmann, Maaike // 2009
This paper deals with the complexity of doing research in design practice. More and more projects and papers appear dealing with this topic and the time has come to draw up the balance sheet. This ...
Pragmatic Design Rules for Selective Load Introduction in Structural Sheets
Niedermeier, Michael; Henne, Markus; Keller, David; Kress, Gerald; Stetter, Ralf // 2009
Good joint design is vital to the success of the product. Spot joining methods in particular cause critical stress concentrations in structures using composite materials. One way of avoiding these is ...
Preference-Oriented Form Design: Application to Cars’ Headlights
Petiot, Jean-François; Dagher, Antoine // 2009
The integration of customer preferences is nowadays a challenge in new product development. In this paper, we describe a method which integrates the customer preferences for the design of geometrical ...
Product Designers get inspired and delighted by an engineering imagery database
Langeveld, Lau; Vergeest, Joris // 2009
Design courses in the bachelor and master program deliver all kinds of product information. The product designer can reuse the information for design inspiration. Design Research projects at the TU ...
Prototyping: Facing Uncertainty through Small Wins
Gerber, Elizabeth // 2009
Design is a learning process in which new knowledge is constructed and used to shape the environment in ways that did not previously exist. Because design is about creating that which does not yet ...
Quantifying Designer’s Mental Stress in the Conceptual Design Process Using Kinesics Study
Tang, Yao; Zeng, Yong // 2009
In this paper, a new approach is proposed to evaluate the designer's mental stress during the conceptual design process. Combined with designer's sketches, the proposed approach is based on ...
Representation of Time in (Static) Visual Narratives
Pimenta,Sherline; Poovaiah,Ravi // 2009
The depiction of a story by pictorial means involves the problem of a relationship between literature on the one hand and the representational arts on the other. The protagonist of the story together ...
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.