How Industrial Design Students Approach Service Design Projects

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Sayar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Design ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Design Projects

Effect of physical activity through virtual reality on design creativity

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
Kenton B. Fillingim ◽  
Hannah Shapiro ◽  
Catherine J. Reichling ◽  
Katherine Fu
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Peak Performance ◽  
Creative Performance ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Design Creativity ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Institute Of Technology

AbstractA deeper understanding of creativity and design is essential for the development of tools to improve designers’ creative processes and drive future innovation. The objective of this research is to evaluate the effect of physical activity versus movement in a virtual environment on the creative output of industrial design students. This study contributes a novel assessment of whether the use of virtual reality can produce the same creative output within designers as physical activity has been shown to produce in prior studies. Eighteen industrial design students at the Georgia Institute of Technology completed nine design tasks across three conditions in a within-subjects experimental design. In each condition, participants independently experienced one of three interventions. Solutions were scored for novelty and feasibility, and self-reported mood data was correlated with performance. No significant differences were found in novelty or feasibility of solutions across the conditions. However, there are statistically significant correlations between mood, interventions, and peak performance to be discussed. The results show that participants who experienced movement in virtual reality prior to problem solving performed at an equal or higher level than physical walking for all design tasks and all designer moods. This serves as motivation for continuing to study how VR can provide an impact on a designer's creative output. Hypothesized creative performance with each mode is discussed using trends from four categories of mood, based on the combined mood characteristics of pleasantness (positive/negative) and activation (active/passive).

Emotional Tools Design: A Project to Increase Empathy, Engagement and Interest in Industrial Design Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan-Carlos Rojas ◽  
Juan Luis Higuera-Trujillo ◽  
Gerardo Muniz
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Design ◽  
Design Students

Blossfeldt, Karl (1865–1932)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Long
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Geometrical Structures ◽  
Plant Modeling ◽  
Natural Forms ◽  
Design Students ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The 19Th Century

Karl Blossfeldt was a sculptor and a teacher of plant modeling at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums (Institute of the Royal Arts and Crafts Museum) in Berlin, where he worked from 1898 until 1930. His reputation as a photographer rests on two books: Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature, 1928) and Wundergarten der Natur (Magic Garden of Nature, 1932). Both consist of extreme close-ups of plants, and seek to identify in natural forms the blueprints of industrial design. The images are characterized by extraordinary detail, revealing to the eye the geometrical structures and formal complexities of common flora. Blossfeldt had been using photographs since the early 1900s as tools of instruction for his design students, but the resonance of his books goes beyond instrumental applied photography. His artistic lineage has been traced to Jugendstil, while his use of the plants’ Latin names and their serial presentation link his work to the tradition of the herbarium and to the scientific photography of the 19th century. Urformen der Kunst was enthusiastically received by critics (Walter Benjamin and Lászlo Moholy-Nagy among them), and Blossfeldt’s work has also often been seen as part of the inter-war German Neues Sehen (New Vision) movement.

Reusing design information: an investigation of the document creation process in service design projects

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Tzu Lin
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Design Rationale ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Design Information ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Is Design

PurposeDesign rationale is design information that explains why an entity is designed as it is. This paper investigates how the documentation process and the use of documents in service design projects influence the reuse of design information across projects.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzes two sets of data collected through interviews and field observation. It first applied Lund's (2004) four elements of documentation process to categorize the collected data. Then it used bottom-up data analysis approach to identify patterns of the documentation process.FindingsThe author speculates designers' focus on certain documents' social aspect instead of material aspect influences how they reuse design information across projects. Some documents are important because they represent a consensus, and some are important because of the document producers rather than its content. The author also found a similarity between economists and service designers by comparing the study results with Harper and Sellen's (1995) findings. Based on the comparison, the author concludes that detailed research reports are easily reusable across design projects. Finally, although the author observed that designers are using templates to explicate design rationale, the created content is not used across projects.Originality/valueThis study identifies six types of documents that are commonly created in service design projects, three types of producer involvement and three types of provisional design outcomes. It also provides two suggestions for designers to reuse design information across service design projects better and two implications for future study.

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