CBM Inquiry, Development

2009 ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Young
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Internal Flow ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Surface Assessment ◽  
Selection Of

Inquiry (11-16) monitors development, automates the internal flow of the design process, and functions as internal sensors. This monitoring checks and rechecks that the process is executing properly1. It is interactive and always operational if used by the design team. Inquiry provides a series of questions to be asked and answered during preproduction, production and postproduction. These questions outline the design of the product and allow for a review of the product before, during, and after production; this is a surface assessment. The list of questions is not exhaustive, but they provide a broad selection of questions meant to focus on the needs of the target audience, enable the design process, and screen for bias. These questions are reviewed and reiterated throughout the design process to keep it active.

The Technology/Tactics (TEC/TAC) Plot: Explicit Representation of User Actions in the Product Design Space

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Stapleton ◽  
Trent Owens ◽  
Christopher Mattson ◽  
Carl Sorensen ◽  
Michael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Space Structure ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Stakeholder Needs ◽  
User Actions ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The initial phases of the design process — including interactions with stakeholders, ideation of concept candidates, and the selection of the best candidates — have a large impact on the success of a project as a whole. They also tend to be the most unstructured portion of the project, and are often marginalized by teams who assume they already understand stakeholder needs and the best solution paths to pursue. Design researchers have developed methods shown to increase the creativity and divergent thinking of the design team during these initial phases of design. Nevertheless, these methods often rely on only a vague or amorphous representation of the design space (the set of all possible concepts the design team could feasibly select to meet the objective of the project). In this paper, we introduce a particular design-space structure that can help teams ideate and evaluate their ideation, thus improving the early phases of the design process. The design space presented here is a vector space with a basis of technology (the physical product people will use) and tactics (the procedure for using the product). Also presented are definitions, principles, and sub-theories that facilitate the creation and use of technology-tactics plots to represent the design space. Considering the design space in this structured way, the design team can gain valuable insights that improve the effectiveness of the initial stages of design, and may yield additional benefits to the design process as a whole, if further developed.

Causing a Stir

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo POTOCNJAK-OXMAN
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Early Stages

Stir was a crowd-voted grants platform aimed at supporting creative youth in the early stages of an entrepreneurial journey. Developed through an in-depth, collaborative design process, between 2015 and 2018 it received close to two hundred projects and distributed over fifty grants to emerging creatives and became one of the most impactful programs aimed at increasing entrepreneurial activity in Canberra, Australia. The following case study will provide an overview of the methodology and process used by the design team in conceiving and developing this platform, highlighting how the community’s interests and competencies were embedded in the project itself. The case provides insights for people leading collaborative design processes, with specific emphasis on some of the characteristics on programs targeting creative youth

scholarly journals PEER DESIGNERS AS STRONG INFLUENCERS ON THE DESIGN PROCESS OF FOOD STARTUPS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2409-2418
Author(s):  
Summer D. Jung ◽  
Erika Perttunen ◽  
Senni Kirjavainen ◽  
Tua Björklund ◽  
Sohyeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Peer Influences ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Design Ideas ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Positive Effect

AbstractAs design research expands its horizon, there has been a recent rise in studies on nontraditional designers. Previous studies have noted the positive effect of diversity in generating ideas. Among different sources of influence, peers outside the design team have been noted for their positive impact on the design process, yet the research on this topic is still in its early stages. Using qualitative data from 40 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the American and Finnish food and beverage industries, the current study examines their interactions with other SMEs, shedding light on the influence of peers on creating new design solutions. The findings suggest that peer companies can act as a frequent and impactful source of inspiration for product design ideas. The most prevalent forms of interaction were co-creating products, sharing information, and sharing ingredients. Furthermore, the interactions were voluntary, organic, and improvisational in nature, and physical proximity or previous connections often initiated the interactions. Taken together, a great number of peer influences contributed towards creative new solutions.

From classrooms to Centres: Mary and David Medd’s contribution to postwar school design in Britain

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-264
Author(s):  
Paula Lacomba Montes ◽  
Alejandro Campos Uribe
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Design Process ◽  
School Design ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Conventional School ◽  
Selection Of

This paper reports on the primary school design processes carried out around the 1940s in the County of Hertfordshire in Great Britain, which later evolved into innovative strategies developed by Mary and David Medd in the Ministry of Education from the late 1950s. The whole process, undertaken during more than three decades, reveals a way of breaking with the traditional spatial conception of a school. The survey of the period covered has allowed an in-depth understanding of how learning spaces could be transformed by challenging the conventional school model of closed rooms, suggesting a new way of understanding learning spaces as a group of Centres rather than classrooms. Historians have thoroughly shown the ample scope of this process, which involved many professionals, fostering a true cross-disciplinary endeavour where the curriculum and the learning spaces were developed in close collaboration. A selection of schools built in the county has been used to typologically analyse how architectural changes began to arise and later flourished at the Ministry of Education. The Medds had indeed a significant role through the development of a design process known as the Built-in variety and the Planning Ingredients. A couple of examples will clarify some of these strategies, revealing how the design of educational space could successfully respond to an active way of learning.

scholarly journals Hydrodynamics characteristics of the small ships rudders

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Dan Obreja
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Computer Code ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Optimum Position ◽  
Practical Research ◽  
Small Ship ◽  
Control Forces ◽  
Selection Of

The estimation of the hydrodynamics characteristics of the small ships rudders is an important issue in the initial design process. The manoeuvring performance depends on the type and geometry of the rudder. The control forces and moments generated by the rudder deflection can be calculated on the basis of the hydrodynamics characteristics of the rudder. A short description of the Mordvinov theoretical model is presented in this paper, in order to determine the hydrodynamics characteristics of a small ship rudder, with the propeller and hull influences. On the basis of the control forces and moments, the optimum position of the rudder stock and the selection of the steering gear can be performed. Using the Mordvinov method, the computer code PHP NM-MAN-HC was develop at the Research Centre of the Naval Architecture Faculty of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. This computer code is integrated in the software platform PHP (Preliminary Hydrodynamics Performance) and is used for didactic applications and practical research activities in the small ship design process

scholarly journals Study of the Start Point of Optimization Trajectories for Complex Strategies of the Circuit Design Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
Alexander Zemliak
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Circuit Design ◽  
Initial Point ◽  
Point Selection ◽  
Design Algorithm ◽  
Optimal Position ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Dividing Surface ◽  
Selection Of

The different design trajectories have been analyzed in the design space on the basis of the new system design methodology. Optimal position of the design algorithm start point was analyzed to minimize the CPU time. The initial point selection has been done on the basis of the before discovered acceleration effect of the system design process. The geometrical dividing surface was defined and analyzed to obtain the optimal position of the algorithm start point. The numerical results of the design of passive and active nonlinear electronic circuits confirm the possibility of the optimal selection of the starting point of the design algorithm.

scholarly journals Influences of a new digital cultural layer on design at varying scales

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Holth ◽  
S Meekings ◽  
Marc Aurel Schnabel ◽  
Tane Moleta
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
New Age ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Architectural Discourse ◽  
Spatial Metrics ◽  
Selection Of

Architects work with data daily. Spatial metrics, building codes and client requirements form the main considerations for many designers, yet new layers of data are impacting the way cities and inhabitants interact with each. This data can be used to more effectively analyse and predict patterns and behaviors to produce environments better suited to users.This paper reviews a selection of ideas from across digital architectural discourse by discussing tangible outcomes from a practitioner point of view and advocates for a greater integration of this digital cultural context into the design process. This paper considers a city-wide digital logic, rather than a new-age technological zeitgeist, that is as much a part of a city as its buildings are and through this provides a lens into our environment and devices that can be used to influence design at multiple scales.

Aerodynamics Performances of Tunnel Jet Fan and its Passage Components Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 325-326 ◽  
pp. 310-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Lin Pan ◽  
Kai Chen
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Flow Resistance ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Static Pressure ◽  
Internal Flow ◽  
Aerodynamic Design ◽  
Road Tunnels ◽  
Jet Fan ◽  
Ventilation Systems

Jet fans are widely used in ventilation systems of road tunnels, railway tunnels and subways etc. It was demonstrated that the static pressure generated by jet fan impeller is merely useful for overcoming its own internal flow resistance and can not improve the ventilation state of tunnel. It was pointed out that in the aerodynamic design process, the static pressure of jet fan should be made as small as possible. The effective way to reduce static pressure produced by impeller is the rational design of jet fan passage components.

Computational Study of Grooved Microchannel Enhancements

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Solovitz
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Management ◽  
Computational Study ◽  
Internal Flow ◽  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Thermal Dissipation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Flow Heat ◽  
Alternate Solution ◽  
Selection Of

As electronics devices continue to increase in thermal dissipation, novel methods will be necessary for effective thermal management. Many macro-scale enhancement techniques have been developed to improve internal flow heat transfer, with a dimple feature being particularly promising due to its enhanced mixing with potentially little pressure penalty. However, because dimples may be difficult to fashion in microchannels, two-dimensional grooves are considered here as a similar alternate solution. Computational fluid dynamics methods are used to analyze the flow and thermal performance for a groove-enhanced microchannel, and the effectiveness is determined for a range of feature depths, diameters, and flow Reynolds numbers. By producing local impingement and flow redevelopment downstream of the groove, thermal enhancements on the order of 70% were achieved with pressure increases of only 30%. Further optimization of this concept should allow the selection of an appropriate application geometry, which can be studied experimentally to validate the concept.

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