Developing a Two-Hour Design Thinking Workshop to Examine the Potentials of Age-Divers Co-creation: Why Product Design Teams Should Invite Users Aged 50+, When Designing for the Demographic Change

Bringing the designer’s concept to the non-design expert’s communicative level requires a significant understanding of the communication media. Primarily the design communication depends on the type of the tools used. Virtual tools with their pre-set operability limit the designer’s ways of interaction with the artefacts. This article proposes a framework for designers to interact with non-design experts through an enhanced communicative media. The design framework indicates steps of design thinking to develop the interface by understanding both the virtual artefacts’ perceptual affordance to the users and the design task. The paper discusses about projects tested in three different scenarios, urban design, architecture, and product design. It concludes with the arguments on designers’ role as authors of the system design.

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Product Form Evolution

Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-617-9.ch027 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 499-512 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrew Muir Wood ◽

James Moultrie ◽

Claudia Eckert

Keyword(s):

Product Design ◽

Development Strategies ◽

Consumer Perception ◽

Product Form ◽

Design Teams ◽

Design Strategies ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Product Forms ◽

Over Time

Companies are coming round to the idea that function and form are complimentary factors in improving the user’s experience of a product and competing in today’s saturated consumer goods markets. However, consumer perception of form is constantly changing, and this manifests itself in the evolving forms of the products that they adopt. From clothes to cameras to cars, change in form is inevitable, and design teams must account for these trends in their product design and development strategies. Through literature, semi-structured interviews with design and trend practitioners, and an archival case study of mobile phone evolution, the authors have developed theories about the continuities that occur in product forms over time, and the forces that can disrupt this behaviour. They then go on to suggest how this view of form as evolving trajectories can benefit future product design strategies.

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What's taking so long? A collaborative method of collecting designers’ insight into what factors increase design effort levels in projects

Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing ◽

10.1017/s0890060420000359 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 341-362

Author(s):

Alexander Freddie Holliman ◽

Avril Thomson ◽

Abigail Hird ◽

Nicky Wilson

Keyword(s):

Product Design ◽

New Product Development ◽

Project Planning ◽

Influential Factors ◽

Design Teams ◽

New Product Development Teams ◽

Development Teams ◽

Design Projects ◽

Project Data ◽

Insight Into

AbstractDesign effort is a key resource for product design projects. Environments where design effort is scarce, and therefore valuable, include hackathons and other time-limited design challenges. Predicting design effort needs is key to successful project planning; therefore, understanding design effort-influencing factors (objective considerations that are universally accepted to exert influence on a subject, that is, types of phenomena, constraints, characteristics, or stimulus) will aid in planning success, offering an improved organizational understanding of product design, characterizing the design space and providing a perspective to assess project briefs from the outset. This paper presents the Collaborative Factor Identification for Design Effort (CoFIDE) Method based on Hird's (2012) method for developing resource forecasting tools for new product development teams. CoFIDE enables the collection of novel data of, and insight into, the collaborative understanding and perceptions of the most influential factors of design effort levels in design projects and how their behavior changes over the course of design projects. CoFIDE also enables design teams, hackathon teams, and makerspace collaborators to characterize their creative spaces, to quickly enable mutual understanding, without the need for complex software and large bodies of past project data. This insight offers design teams, hackathon teams, and makerspace collaborators opportunities to capitalize on positive influences while minimizing negative influences. This paper demonstrates the use of CoFIDE through a case study with a UK-based product design agency, which enabled the design team to identify and model the behavior of four influential factors.

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A Form Generation System Based on Design Thinking Patterns

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.201-203.1147 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 201-203 ◽

pp. 1147-1150

Author(s):

Teng Wen Chang ◽

Sei Wo Winger Tseng

Keyword(s):

Complex System ◽

Focus Group ◽

Product Design ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Experimental System ◽

Design System ◽

Design Practice ◽

Generation System ◽

Practical Situation ◽

Form Generation

Generative design system is a complex system that often focus on the technical and complex details thus away from building a system from the product designer’s thinking patterns. In addition, by focusing on the mechanism, the system is hard to construct and difficult to use for practical situation. Horizontal/vertical design thinking patterns are often used in product design practice, thus how designers make decision affect the generation reasoning. With the cognitive design researches on design thinking patterns, two research stages (experiment and implementation) are conducted and policy/generation rules are discovered during the experiment with 30 5-year design experts as focus group. An experimental system called thinking pattern-based generation system, a.l.a. ThinkGen is developed for testing the hypothesis.

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Preparing the way for mainstream sustainable product design

Form Akademisk - forskningstidsskrift for design og designdidaktikk ◽

10.7577/formakademisk.1657 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vicky Lofthouse

Keyword(s):

Product Design ◽

Design Thinking ◽

Sustainable Design ◽

Educational Setting ◽

Actual Situation ◽

Design Practice ◽

Sustainable Product Design ◽

Next Generation ◽

Sustainable Product ◽

Design Students

This paper proposes that there is a need to prepare undergraduate design students to be responsible practitioners when they enter the workplace. The multi-faceted approach adopted by the Design School at Loughborough University to achieve this is presented. The paper outlines and reflects on the differences between the idealistic environment provided within an educational setting and the actual situation in the design industry, where there is little evidence of mainstream sustainable design practice. The paper concludes that it is valuable to provide students with a range of skills that support sustainable design thinking, even if they are not currently required by the design industry because doing so turns the students into informed individuals with the potential to lead the next generation of design practitioners.

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