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Designing Ergonomic Data Tools for Designers

Dong, Hua; Nickpour, Farnaz; McGinley, Chris // 2009
Ergonomics provides important user data for design. However, when interviewing designers about their use of data in the design process, we found that experienced designers' use of ergonomics ...

Development of Standardized Tests for Design Skills

Shah, Jami; Woodward, Jay; Smith, Steve // 2009
A number of cognitive skills relevant to design have been identified. Formal methods for evaluating these skills in engineering students are needed. Towards that goal we are developing a battery of ...

Disruptive vs. Sustaining Technology and the Design Process

Kaldate, Amit; Thurston, Deborah; Rood, Mark // 2009
The preliminary stages of design often focus on how to configure the artifact in such a way as to beat the existing competition in a performance attribute widely available in the marketplace. But ...

Does sponsored studio teaching undermine or facilitate the growth of the design profession?

Liem, Andre // 2009
Changing technologies, attitudes and perceptions within industry and society has continuously stimulated and challenged the design profession. For some actors and organisations in the design field, ...

DRED 2.0: A Method and Tool for Capture and Communication of Design Knowledge Deliberated in the Creation of Technical Products

Bracewell, Rob; Gourtovaia, Marina; Moss, Michael; Knott, David; Wallace, Ken; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
This paper addresses the general issue of software tool support for designers, helping them to structure, to communicate and to document activities of generation, evaluation and decision. Here the ...

Ecodesign tools in design education

Lofthouse, Vicky // 2009
Over the last 10 years the Department of Design and Technology at Loughborough University has introduced over 600 design students to a suite of qualitative and quantitative sustainable design tools. ...

Educational studies in relation between subjective concepts and abstract forms

Khorsandian, Shadman; Moghaddam, Nasrin; Tashakorinia, Zahra // 2009
Teaching form studies is one of the main branches of Industrial Design; accordingly, a course named "Form and Space" has been included in the Industrial Designers' syllabus. Form is an important ...

Engineering Design by Integrated Diagrams

Aurisicchio, Marco; Bracewell, Rob // 2009
The Design Rationale editor (DRed), an IBIS derivative, originally developed to support the capture of design rationale, has progressively evolved into a tool to map a unified information space ...

Enhancing the Product Development Process via Design Progress and Knowledge Assets Management with Visual Design Evaluations

Pahng, Gundong Francis; Wall, Matthew // 2009
With the advance of IT infrastructure and computer-based engineering solutions in manufacturing enterprises, design engineers have at their disposal numerous computer-based tools and methods that ...

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 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 ...

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.

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