Inspirational categories for product design: a study within the conjoint trends analysis method

DS 76: Proceedings of E&PDE 2013, the 15th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Dublin, Ireland, 05-06.09.2013

Year: 2013
Editor: John Lawlor, Ger Reilly, Robert Simpson, Michael Ring, Ahmed Kovacevic, Mark McGrath, William Ion, David Tormey, Erik Bohemia, Chris McMahon, Brian Parkinson
Author: Cadavid Lopez, Angela; Maya Castro, Jorge
Series: E&PDE
Institution: Universidad Eafit, Colombia
Section: Styling/Form
Page(s): 388-393
ISBN: 978-1-904670-42-1

Abstract

The product user experience (UX) is essential in the design of innovative products. There are numerous methods to define the form of a product that best conveys an UX. One of these methods is the Conjoint Trend Board method (CTA) that is easy to use and inexpensive. Nevertheless, in some of CTA’s instructions the user can introduce biases. Therefore, this publication is part of a study that seeks to increase the robustness of the method, increasing the accuracy of their results. This research seeks to define the criteria for choosing an image as inspiring, when one applies the CTA. One experiment with 6 designers (novel and experienced) is proposed in order to identify what the inspiring and non-inspiring elements are. Finally, some criteria, for use when selecting images as inspiring within the CTA method, are proposed.

Keywords: Inspiration, Conjoint Trend Analysis method, product aesthetics, user experience, product embodiment, product appearance, styling methods

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