scholarly journals The Strategy of Universal-Design Thinking in Architecturally Innovative Product Development

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2254
Author(s):  
Chenhui Gao ◽  
Kai-Chieh Lin ◽  
Zheng-Yi Wu
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
Type I ◽  
Innovative Product ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Design Factors

Universal design, as an important concept in product development, has been gradually implemented in various industries and firms, but most of the applications are aimed at the incremental innovation of product design. However, considering the differentiation of product types, the design factors are varied and not precise, which makes it difficult to effectively implement the existing universal-design principles in specific product designs when facing architecturally innovative product development, which leads to an increasing amount of time and resources. This study, with an umbrella stand as an example, proposes to design a new universal-design scale by combining the attributes of the umbrella stand, the existing universal-design principles and the usability principles at the beginning of the design. Then, through interviews and user surveys, cluster analysis is used to screen the products and refine the design factors. In addition, with the Quantification Type I, the universal-design principles and design factors are matched effectively in order to obtain the weight differences of the product design factors and eliminate unsuitable design factors, in order to guide product design. Finally, the universal umbrella-stand-design case is completed for verification. The results show that the universal umbrella stand has been significantly improved in the evaluation of universal-design principles. In the future design, architecturally innovative products with inaccurate design factors can also use this process to complete the design and development of the target product, and to significantly enhance the universal-design evaluation of the product.

Design Thinking at Daedalus

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Beale ◽  
Tim Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
Digital Medicine ◽  
Marketing Resources ◽  
Model Components ◽  
Common Understanding

Developing solutions for biopharma/medtech/digital medicine products and services requires a cross-disciplinary team to engage a broad section of the healthcare ecosystem. Unlike technology products, this ecosystem is more complex and involves patients, physicians, providers, payers, and partners. Each of these parties must be engaged to understand overall market need, requirements, and constraints. This article focuses on design thinking as part of the overall strategic and marketing resources that can be used to observe, question, and understand the needs of the entire ecosystem. The interdisciplinary commercialization team can thereby reach a common understanding of the outcome of each component of the job to be done from the perspectives of each party, and thereby achieve overall product/market fit for the product design and overall business model components. This chapter outlines the perspective and approach of Daedalus, a full-service, interdisciplinary product development firm with decades of experience working with medtech companies. The article is complementary and supplementary to the materials on design thinking in Part One of this monograph/special edition. It also covers several examples as mini cases that are pertinent to healthcare from projects undertaken by Daedalus, Inc. from their industry portfolio of achievements.

A Study on Universal Design Product Development Combined with Value Engineering Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 201-203 ◽  
pp. 2927-2930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongjun Park ◽  
Jae Il Park
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Product Performance ◽  
Value Engineering ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Upward Trend ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Differentiated Marketing

As the human-centered product design has been emphasized as one of differentiated marketing factors, the products developed with the factors related to human characteristics are on an upward trend. Current development for the human-centered products is based on PPP(Product Performance Program) and UD(Universal Design) cases, but the products often results in being highly expensive so that a few of customers benefit from them. To achieve less expensive UD products, the initial stage of the product development needs to include value engineering (VE) that provides analysis tools for UD functions and their costs. This study presents UD development process integrated with VE.

Innovation Design Method of Product Base on Materials Innovation Technologies

2012 ◽  
Vol 605-607 ◽  
pp. 271-275
Author(s):  
Yuan Guo ◽  
Xin Shi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Design Method ◽  
New Products ◽  
New Product ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Innovative Product ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Innovative Materials

Proposing the product design method based on innovative materials technology aim to play better the potential of materials’ application and to grasp the future trends of new products development. Combined with the recent typical innovative product cases to demonstrate four innovation design methods: reference, package and adhesion, superposition and integration, variation. These innovation methods’ applications indicate broader prospects of materials’ use that transformed from the state of “material”, the vision and touch of the “quality”, and it also play a positive role in new product development.

scholarly journals Characterizing Product Performance as Visual Imaging that Influencing Designer Design Thinking in Product Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (SI6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nik Nor Azidah Nik Aziz ◽  
Ghazali Daimin ◽  
Verly Veto Vermol ◽  
Shahriman Zainal Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Product Performance ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Analysis Model

The main purpose of this research is to explore Product Design Images influencing factors to designers prior to Visual Methods to be presented within the Design Research context at the stage of Design Activity. The researcher has chosen the Sequential Explanatory Design to easily communicate the procedures for this mixed-method study. The significance of this project enables researchers to discover the underlying relationship and potential of Research Photography in the product development process for product performance analysis. Qualitative data through the Verbal Protocol Analysis model will potentially be supporting the researcher to investigate within the activity of designers understanding product performances and user needs.  Keywords: Product Design; Visual Methods; Photography; Design Activity eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6iSI6.3041

Teaching Design Thinking in Marketing: Linking Product Design and Marketing Strategy in a Product Development Class

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Chen ◽  
Ray Benedicktus ◽  
Yuna Kim ◽  
Eric Shih
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
New Products ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Teaching Design ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
User Centered

Design thinking refers to the implementation of a firm’s design philosophy into design processes and outputs. This article introduces two design thinking approaches—user-centered design and design-driven innovation—that frame product design activities and show how these approaches can be incorporated into marketing curricula. The aim of this article is to show how marketing educators can help students appreciate and understand the processes and consequences of developing new products using different design thinking approaches. First, an experiment is conducted to examine the effect of design thinking approaches (user-centered design, design-driven innovation) on design and marketing outcomes (perceived originality, perceived usefulness, and perceived value). Second, based on the results of the study, the article develops a step-by-step guide on how to execute a design thinking module in a product-oriented marketing course.

Product Modeling, Evaluation and Validation at the Detailed Design Stage

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Iorga ◽  
Alain Desrochers
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Product Modeling ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Product Variation ◽  
Process Methodology ◽  
Capstone Projects ◽  
Short Time

The expansion of the markets corroborated with product customization and short time to launch the product have led to new levels of competition among product development companies. To be successful in the globalization of the markets and to enable the evaluation and validation of products, companies have to develop methodologies focused on lifecycle analysis and reduction of product variation to obtain both quality and robustness of products. Keywords: Modeling, Evaluation, Validation, Design ProcessThis paper proposes a new design process methodology that unifies theoretical results of modeling stage and empirical findings obtained from the validation stage. The evaluations and validations of engineering design are very important and they have a high influence on product performances and their functionality, as well on the customer perceptions.Given that most companies maintain the confidentiality of their product development processes and that the existing literature does not provide more detailed aspects of this field, the proposed methodology will represent a technical and logistical support intended for students or engineers involved in academic as well as industrial projects.A generic methodology will be refined based on a new approach that will take into consideration the specification types (quantitative or qualitative), the design objectives and the product types: new/improved, structural/esthetic. Hence the new generic methodology will be composed of specific product validation algorithms taking into account the above considerations. At the end of this paper, the improvements provided by the proposed methodology into the design process will be shown in the context of the engineering student capstone projects at the Université de Sherbrooke.

Truck Redesign Case: Simulating the Target Costing Process in a Product Design Environment

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Everaert ◽  
Dan W. Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Target Costing ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Goal Setting Theory ◽  
Setting Theory

ABSTRACT This active learning exercise simulates the target costing process and demonstrates how a management theory (goal setting theory) is relevant to a business improvement initiative (target costing). As part of the target costing simulation, student participants work in teams to address a business issue (product development) that moves across functional boundaries. The simulation begins with students learning how to assemble a model truck and calculate its product cost using activity-based costing. Students are then divided into teams and instructed to reduce the truck's cost through a redesign exercise, subject to certain customer requirements and quality constraints. Typically, the teams achieve cost reduction by eliminating unnecessary parts, by using less expensive parts, and by using less part variety. This exercise provides a unique opportunity for students to actively participate in a redesign exercise. It results in student teams creating a wide variety of truck designs with vastly different product costs. The case ends by having a discussion about target costing, goal setting theory, and the implications of the target costing simulation. This simulation contains a number of specific learning objectives. First, students learn how the greatest opportunity for cost reduction occurs during the product design stage of the product development cycle. Second, students see firsthand how design-change decisions affect a product's costs, and the role of the cost information in guiding those decisions. Third, students experience the cross-functional interaction that occurs between sales and marketing, design engineering, and accounting during product development. Finally, this exercise helps students understand the concept of target costing. The simulation is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate management accounting classes. Data Availability:  For more information about this case, contact the first author at [email protected].

scholarly journals Triple-Helix Structured Model Based on Problem-Knowledge-Solution Co-evolution for Innovative Product Design Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Hui ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
Ye Tao ◽  
Hongwei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Triple Helix ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Innovative Product ◽  
Innovative Design ◽  
Structured Model ◽  
Knowledge Spaces ◽  
Product Design Process

AbstractA design problem with deficient information is generally described as wicked or ill-defined. The information insufficiency leaves designers with loose settings, free environments, and a lack of strict boundaries, which provides them with more opportunities to facilitate innovation. Therefore, to capture the opportunity behind the uncertainty of a design problem, this study models an innovative design as a composite solving process, where the problem is clarified and resolved from fuzziness to satisfying solutions by interplay among design problems, knowledge, and solutions. Additionally, a triple-helix structured model for the innovative product design process is proposed based on the co-evolution of the problem, solution, and knowledge spaces, to provide designers with a distinct design strategy and method for innovative design. The three spaces interact and co-evolve through iterative mappings, including problem structuring, knowledge expansion, and solution generation. The mappings carry the information processing and decision-making activities of the design, and create the path to satisfying solutions. Finally, a case study of a reactor coolant flow distribution device is presented to demonstrate the practicability of this model and the method for innovative product design.

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