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The Concept of Product Properties and its Value for Research and Practice in Design
Birkhofer, Herbert; Wäldele, Martin // 2009
Design science has produced a lot of models, definitions, and terms, which may be highly useful for design research as well as design practice. Still this body of knowledge and insights is often ...
The design of Eco Board Games as an umbrella approach to sustainable product design education
Boks, Casper; McAloone, Tim // 2009
The multidisciplinarity and quickly broadening scope of sustainable product design education provide incentives for experimentation with different pedagogical techniques. One of these, involving the ...
The development of an on-line learning & teaching resource for the socio-centric aspects of sustainable design
Conrad, Franziska; Humphries-Smith, Tania // 2009
This paper fits into the topics of socially relevant design, design and emotion and sustainable design and explores the question how can we create a more sustainable way of life? The paper also ...
The Effects of Reusability and Green Design in Consumer Packaging on Consumer Satisfaction — Using SEM Analysis
Wang,Wei-yao; Huang, Tzu-ho Jordan // 2009
More contemporary product packaging are designed to be environmental- friendly as efforts of the environmentalists grow more enthusiastic and the number of green design supporter increase. However, ...
The Flexible Meaning of Function in Engineering
Vermaas, Pieter E. // 2009
In this paper I explain the co-existence of different approaches towards understanding functions. First I argue that full descriptions of technical devices contain five key concepts: structure, ...
The future of design synthesis education
Acuña, Alejandro // 2009
The purpose of our research is to understand how industrial design students learn and formulate design synthesis and its relation to their own level of imagery. We also intend to understand how ...
The Genesis of a Comprehensive Design Thinking Solution
Böckmann, Oliver; Noweski, Christine; Meinel, Christoph // 2009
In this paper we address principles of the design thinking methodology and their value to design projects. We do this by describing the challenge, progress and results of a use case project for a ...
The Impact of Virtual Environments on Humans Collaboration in Product Design
Mengoni, Maura; Peruzzini, Margherita; Germani, Michele // 2009
Virtual Reality (VR) has quickly evolved over the last years in terms of technological and applicative dimensions. Human-Computer Interaction is particularly meaningful in the design activities ...
The Integration of Systems Levels and Design Activities to Position Creativity Support Tools
Howard,Thomas; Culley,Steve ; Dekoninck, Elies // 2009
When beginning to investigate `creativity in detailed design' it becomes apparent that the literature and discourse regarding the terms; conceptual and detailed design are confused at a point or ...
The Iterative Nature of Medical Device Design
Shluzas, Lauren A.; Pietzsch, Jan B.; Paté-Cornell, M. Elisabeth; Yock, Paul G.; Linehan, John H. // 2009
A one-year study, sponsored by The Institute for Health Technology Studies, was conducted by a team of Stanford University researchers to develop a linear model of the medical device development ...
The Main Mystifications Ingrained in Engineering Design
Sedenkov, Vladimir Michailovich // 2009
Amazing phenomenon of engineering design is that it manipulates with non-existent and yet to be called into being entities in the same way as with real objects (products and processes). Thus a ...
The Management of Digital Sketches through PLM solutions
Huet, Greg; McAlpine, Hamish; Camarero, Ricardo; Culley, Stephen J.; Leblanc, Tatjana; Fortin, Clement // 2009
To manufacture successful products, companies are reliant on an efficient information and knowledge backbone. Within this context, this paper reports a preliminary investigation into the management ...
The Modeling of the Interaction of the Human Hand with Products
Medland, Anthony John; Matthews, Jason // 2009
Many products are designed to be hand operated in use. These extend from industrial machine tools to domestic appliances. In these the designer has to rely upon experience and ergonomic guidelines to ...
The need for function platforms in engineer-to-order industries
Alblas, Alex; Wortmann, Hans // 2009
Many industries base their innovations on product platforms. Platforms have predefined modularity with standardized interfaces. However, product platforms provide significant challenges to ...
The new Community Portal DSMweb.org
Kreimeyer, M. // 2009
The P3 Platform: An Approach and Software System for Developing Diagrammatic Model-Based Methods in Design Research
Wynn, David C.; Nair, Seena M. T.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
Many issues in design and design management have been explored by building models which capture the relationships between different aspects of the problem at hand. These models require computer ...
The Pedagogy of Pre-Brief Activities for Industrial Design Undergraduates Operating at the ‘Fuzzy Front End’ of New Product Development
Wormald, Paul William // 2009
The processes of strategic innovation embedded into the so-called 'fuzzy front end' of new product development are successfully employed by global corporations. This paper describes ...
The Potential of Creativity Metrics for Mechanical Engineering Concept Design
Oman, Sarah; Tumer, Irem Y. // 2009
This paper endeavors to describe how creativity factors into engineering demand for creative products in all domains has increased dramatically in the last decade, warranting the need for a method to ...
The Power of Prototypes in Foresight Engineering
Carleton, Tamara; Cockayne, William // 2009
Prototyping has long been a popular method in engineering and design practice. The continued use of physical prototyping is based on its strength in helping teams to make ideas tangible, iterate ...
The Process of Engineering Design: A Comparison of three Representations
Atman, Cynthia J.; Deibel, Katherine; Borgford-Parnell, Jim // 2009
Graphic representations that show how the design process changes over the course of solving a problem are powerful tools for researchers. This paper presents three such representations - timelines, ...
The Processnavigator – Flexible Process Execution for Product Development Projects
Faerber, Matthias; Meerkamm, Stephanie; Jablonski, Stefan // 2009
The development of new, innovative products is a company's fundament to achieve success on the long term. Processes have been successful to structure development processes, however no practical ...
The Product Development Process Roadblock that is Restricting the Widespread Adoption of Design for Sustainability
Lee-Mortimer, Andrew; Short, Tim // 2009
There is now growing pressure on manufacturers from all sectors, and of all sizes, to adopt Design for Sustainability (DfS). The aim of DfS is ensure that both the environmental impact, and any wider ...
The Product’s Degree of Maturity as a Measurement for the Efficiency of Design Iterations
Krehmer, Hartmut; Meerkamm, Harald; Wartzack, Sandro // 2009
In this contribution a framework for evaluating design iterations and for assessing the effects of design iterations on the product?s degree of maturity is introduced. Thereby, the product's ...
The Real World does not like Complexity, but….
Stowe, H. M.; Browning, T.; Maurer, M. // 2009
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