Product Design

The Transferral of Cultural Factors from Traditional Chinese Folk Art into Contemporary Product Designs

by Ashley Hall

Co-authored with Wenjin Yao

This paper describes an exploration into the absorption of local cultural elements and how these can be synthesised... more This paper describes an exploration into the absorption of local cultural elements and how these can be synthesised into new concepts from abstract elements into product designs. A cultural transfer design workshop was held with students from the IDE department at the Royal College of Art in the UK and Art and the Design Academy of Tsinghua University in China, in collaboration with traditional Chinese craftsmen. This workshop is one part of the international collaborative IDE “GoGlobal” project in 2010. Through methods including: craftwork, market observation, case study, brainstorming and concept design, the workshop results demonstrate an understanding of the transferred object from its aesthetics and ethical context of local traditional art and essential factors producing a mature, culturally transferred response. As design research, the workshop is both a rethink and experiment to discover the value of Chinese elements in products through the interaction of individual designers and teams. Analysis of the transfer is conducted in respect of both global and Chinese markets.

Ecodesign Tools: One basis to operacionalize sustainable design

by José Vicente

Co-authored with Rui Frazão, Fernando Moreira da Silva, publiseh in Proceedings of VI International Congress on Design Research - October, 2011 - Lisbon, Portugal

This paper aims to provide an analysis of the different types of available ecodesign tools, their benefits,... more This paper aims to provide an analysis of the different types of available ecodesign tools, their benefits, capabilities and problems, to understand how these instruments could serve as a foundation for developing a practical body for sustainable product design, thus allowing the design to be able to promote a shift to a paradigm of sustainable production and consumption.

Customer-Product Interaction - A Model for New Product Development in Entrepreneurial Firms

by Peter Mellalieu

Coleman, E. B., Frederick, H., & Mellalieu, P. J. (2006). Customer-Product Interaction - A Model for New Product Development in Entrepreneurial Firms. Third AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (AIREX-2006). Auckland: Unitec Institute of Technology. Retrieved from http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30030708

Use of New Product Development Methods (NPD) may benefit New Zealand SMEs and entrepreneurial firms in gaining greater... more Use of New Product Development Methods (NPD) may benefit New Zealand SMEs and entrepreneurial firms in gaining greater market share. In this paper we review the literature on New Product Development, NPD theory, and methods for early stage product design and development. Our reading suggests that product design has greater success when the customer is involved in the design effort. It also recommends methods of approach to new markets in the (NPD) life cycle. The literature further elucidates methods for identification of product design criteria based on customer needs identification. In essence, customer-product interaction in the early stages of product development is important to product success in new markets for entrepreneurial firms and SMEs. Of particular interest are early-stage NPD research methods and their influence on the company's marketing strategy.

Line it up | Desenvolvimento de adesivos para aplicação de delineador

by Hana Luzia

Co-authored with Agnaldo Silva, Júlia Maciel Mendes, Júnior Souza e Maria Gabriela Fonseca.

Orientação do Prof. Fábio Campos / Grupo de estudo "Técnicas de Geração e Seleção de Alternativas".

O briefing do produto delimitou a criação de um novo cosmético que agregasse tecnologia e diversão, deixando de ser... more O briefing do produto delimitou a criação de um novo cosmético que agregasse tecnologia e diversão, deixando de ser apenas um produto de beleza. Porém, com base na pesquisa com o usuário, percebe-se a dificuldade das mulheres em usar o delineador líquido. Por falta de habilidade e/ou experiência, a aplicação é interrompida ou refeita várias vezes. Assim, a maioria das mulheres entrevistadas afirmou não usar delineadores líquidos por não conseguir aplicar o produto satisfatoriamente.
Devido a esse problema, não criamos um novo cosmético e sim um aprimoramento de um produto já conhecido no mercado, através de uma nova tecnologia de aplicação na qual é usada uma ferramenta simples e descartável: adesivo para pálpebra que funciona como molde para a aplicação do delineador. A diversão é garantida pelas diversas opções de formatos dos adesivos, resultando em desenhos variados e diversificando o dia-dia do usuário. A aplicação fácil e rápida também gera satisfação e diversão. Assim, aproveita-se a consciência do consumidor dos fins a que o produto se aplica e agrega-se confiança, buscando popularizar o uso do delineador entre as mulheres.

Product personality assignment as a mediating technique in biologically and culturally inspired design

by Denis A. Coelho

by Denis A. Coelho, Carlos A. M. Versos and Ana S. C. silva
in Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design
Published: July 09, 2012 by CRC Press - 700 Pages
Editor(s): Gavriel Salvendy, Tsinghua University, P.R. China; Waldemar Karwowski, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
ISBN 9781439871188

The chapter reviews the product personality assignment technique and proposes its deployment in two kinds of... more The chapter reviews the product personality assignment technique and proposes its deployment in two kinds of approaches to design, biologically and culturally inspired design, two approaches to design that may contribute to the satisfaction of sustainability goals. While the focus of the first is on efficiency and effectiveness, with decreased resource usage, the promotion of local resource use and local production for local consumption, sought by culturally inspired design, may also be conducive to reduced environmental impacts. Biologically inspired design seeks to inform the process of design with examples and solutions from nature, whether the bionic example is viewed as the trigger for the design process or it is considered in the concept generation phase. The chapter demonstrates, through the report on a design case, the use of the product personality assignment technique within a bionic design process, at the phase of validation of requirements satisfaction. In this case, a set of subjects performed the evaluation directly on the design concepts. This design case consisted of the design of a device to store discs and books, taking inspiration from nature. In another design case, reported in the chapter, seeking transposition of cultural aspects to product design, existing products were initially assigned personality profiles and rated by a set of subjects. The researchers then sought to establish links between the personality assignment made by subjects and by researchers and the features of the products. In parallel, cultural profiles were developed for translation into product personality profiles and from these to product features in order to trigger design processes. The second design case reported led to production of new furniture concepts. Considering the current urgency in achieving sustainability, the two cases presented in the chapter also suggest a systematization of the possible deployments of the product personality assignment technique in a wide array of methodological approaches to design. Taking an even wider perspective, the cases also provide evidence of the interplay between human factors and ergonomics goals in design and sustainability.

COLLABORATION BETWEEN DESIGNERS AND SCIENTISTS IN THE CONTEXT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: A LITERATURE REVIEW

by Carlos Peralta

COLLABORATION BETWEEN DESIGNERS AND SCIENTISTS IN THE CONTEXT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH: A LITERATURE REVIEW

by Carlos Peralta

Discovery and Creation: Explaining Collaboration between Designers and Scientists in Scientific Research

by Carlos Peralta

A Method for User Centering Systematic Product Development Aimed at Industrial Design Students

by Denis A. Coelho

by
Denis A. Coelho
Design and Technology Education: An International Journal 15.2
2010

Instead of limiting the introduction and stimulus for new
concept creation to lists of specifications, industrial... more Instead of limiting the introduction and stimulus for new
concept creation to lists of specifications, industrial design
students seem to prefer to be encouraged by ideas in
context. A new method that specifically tackles human
activity to foster the creation of user centered concepts of
new products was developed and is presented in this
article. This approach supports to push the limits of
creativity to get passed existing concepts. This article
stresses important aspects of established literature about
the process of developing products, highlighting how the
requirements of the specification are encouraged as a first
step in creating new concepts. The theory about activity,
developed by Leontiev and Vygotsky, can fundamentally
be used to the benefit of many examples of human
activity. Systematic design procedures are also used in the
method presented to evaluate and improve the initial
concept drafts and guide their development.
Key words
study of human activity, design theory, science of design;
industrial design, person-artifact interaction

'Workshop of the World? Manufacturing the British Product'

by Deborah Sugg Ryan

in Christopher Breward & Ghislaine Wood (eds.) British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age, V&A publishing, 2012, ISBN: 9781851776740

This chapter considers how institutions, individuals and industries responded to new circumstances of manufacturing... more This chapter considers how institutions, individuals and industries responded to new circumstances of manufacturing the British product from the 1960s onwards. New forms of education for industrial design resulted in the emergence of the consultant designer and in design consultancies that worked in partnership with industry in Britain and abroad. As British manufacturing evolved within a changing world economy, a decline in R&D in some fields was matched by an equal (though less well-documented) investment in other areas. In the meantime, the tradition of the British inventor and design entrepreneur was far from dead. More hidden was the role of women, but here too female designers and consumers played important roles. Britain also became a workshop in innovation and creativity, set against the backdrop of Swinging London, developing new technologies and exporting design expertise.

Valorisation of the design project. Digitisation as a means of conservation and knowledge

by mauro ceconello

Ceconello, M., & Spallazzo, D. (2010). Valorisation of the design project. Digitisation as a means of conservation and knowledge. Euromed 2010. Cyprus

The paper describes the ongoing project of digitization of the archive of the famed Italian modeller Giovanni Sacchi.... more The paper describes the ongoing project of digitization of the archive of the famed Italian modeller Giovanni Sacchi. The main idea that drives the project is to create a digital archive that links heterogeneous data – sketches, technical drawings, images, physical models – referring to a single product in order to create an overall view of the design process and creative thought performed by various designers. Six renowned industrial products, of which Triennale di Milano conserves a wooden model of Giovanni Sacchi, have been chosen as case studies and all the related material has been retrieved, digitized and catalogued following the current Italian standards. The project of digitisation and the first results of the testing procedures are encouraging: the methodology has allowed to obtain high quality digital outputs and the Regional archiving system (SIRBeC) offers a great basis to build scenarios of access for the exploitation of data. The objective is to make the complete archive available at Triennale di Milano and in selected reference points for the off-line consultation, allowing to browse through the archive with technological and innovative devices: a pioneering system of consultation through the use of handhelds, table pc and the exploitation of augmented reality as a tool to enhance the comprehension of the digital data and to involve the visitors into an immersive experience.

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS OF PILOT ECO-DESIGN FRAMEWORK

by francesco costantino

Managing modularity in product family design with functional modeling

by Graeme Britton

Zhang, W.Y.; Tor, S.B.; & Britton, G.A. 2006. Managing modularity in product family design with functional modeling. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 30, pp. 579-588

Diseno de Producto Siglo XXI: Un panorama refrescante

by Liliana Rodriguez

Revista Proyecto Diseno -71 y 73 - Colombia - 2011

This new XXI century has seen a fundamental transformation in the product design world. From being entities purely... more This new XXI century has seen a fundamental transformation in the product design world. From being entities purely physics and tangibles, the products have evolved to be mix entities, with physical and virtual or intangible attributes. The products of this century also include Interactive properties that allow people that use them (users), to exchange information in and out and communicate with these objects and throughout them. Phones that help people navigate through cities, ATMs that supplant human tellers, "online" services that analyses the patterns of consumption of its users and offers them shopping options according to their tastes and preferences are all manifestations of this transformation.

While this change is consequence of a number of things, two of them are directly related to the design world: On one side is the emergence of a new kind of design thinking and secondly, the highly development that information technology (IT) has had in recent years.

It is noted that the eternal paradigm-design debate in the twentieth century over whether the function of the products is determined first by the form has given way to fresh concepts and philosophies that in turn are reshaping the contemporary context of product design.

A modular method for modeling processes in constant demand manufacturing systems

by Angela Chang

Appraisal of New Product Development Success Indicators in the Aerospace Industry

by Afrooz Moatari Kazerouni

Moatari Kazerouni, A.; Achiche, S.; Hisarciklilar, O.; Thomson, V.
Part of: The ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 133(10).
Status: published

INFLUENCE OF THE TIME PERSPECTIVE ON NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SUCCESS INDICATORS

by Afrooz Moatari Kazerouni

Moatari Kazerouni, A.; Achiche, S.; Hisarciklilar, O.; Thomson, V.
Part of: The International Conference on Engineering Design (paperid: 146) , 2011, Copenhagen
Type: Full conference paper publ. in proceedings/book
Presented at: International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11) - 18, 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark
Status: published

Mars Science Laboratory CHIMRA: A Device for Processing Powdered Martian Samples

by Daniel Sunshine

The CHIMRA is an extraterrestrial sample acquisition and processing device for the Mars Science Laboratory that... more The CHIMRA is an extraterrestrial sample acquisition and processing device for the Mars Science Laboratory that emphasizes robustness and adaptability through design configuration. This work reviews the guidelines utilized to invent the initial CHIMRA and the strategy employed in advancing the design; these principles will be discussed in relation to both the final CHIMRA design and similar future devices. The computational synthesis necessary to mature a boxed-in impact-generating mechanism will be presented alongside a detailed mechanism description. Results from the development testing required to advance the design for a highly-loaded, long-life and high-speed bearing application will be presented. Lessons learned during the assembly and testing of this subsystem as well as results and lessons from the sample-handling development test program will be reviewed.

Socially responsible design: thinking beyond the triple bottom line to socially responsive and sustainable product design

by Gavin Melles

CoDesign Volume 7, Issue 3-4, 2011 Special Issue: Socially Responsive Design

As the focus of product design has shifted from exclusively commercial to sustainability and social concerns, design... more As the focus of product design has shifted from exclusively commercial to sustainability and social concerns, design education in this area has endeavoured to keep pace. Victor Papanek's book Design for the real world, crystallised many of the systemic social, economic and environmental concerns into an argument for change through eco-design, inclusive design and, in business and corporate contexts, a triple bottom line of social, environmental and economic factors. Simultaneously, design has developed and evolved participatory and co-design approaches, with high-profile consultancies such as IDEO proving that early involvement of designers with ‘wicked’ social and environmental problems is possible. This position paper revisits Papanek's agenda for industrial design, and examines the link with participatory approaches, and existing socially responsible design agendas and examples. Identifying eight critical features of socially sustainable product design, this paper suggests that Papanek's original agenda for socially responsible and sustainable design has been partly fulfilled and must be developed further through the changed role of the designer as facilitator of flexible design solutions that meet local needs and resources.

ECODESIGN METHODOLOGY APPLIED TO HUMAN-POWERED TROLLEYS FOR BARCELONA’S URBAN CLEANING

by Carlos Jimenez

Carlos Jiménez "Co-authored with: Albert LLort, Tito Favaro)
ESDi Higher School of Design, adscript centre to Ramon Llull University.

Published in Proceeding book: SIM2011 - Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing
ISBN : 978-989-8481-03-0

This paper attempts to show the research process of a new set of human-powered cleaning trolleys for Barcelona’s urban... more This paper attempts to show the research process of a new set of human-powered cleaning trolleys for Barcelona’s urban setting, fitting the established green public purchase criteria. Coinciding with the announcement of hiring the services of waste collection for the period 2008-2015 by the Barcelona City Council, the local environmental services company “Corporació CLD”, began a R&D project with ESDi in order to redesign their trolleys’ Product Service-System. Public institutions, as responsible for the 18% of the GDP generated in Europe, plays a prominent role in encouraging eco-innovation for companies that aspire to compete in this market, according to the Integrated Product Policy (IPP).
Ecodesign methodology has been applied here not only for environmental improvement but also as a strategic approach to foster systemic innovation within the company. A set of tools from various disciplines was used, such as: Ecostrategic Wheel, Life Cycle Management with Eco-Indicadors’99, user involvement, ergonomics and empowerment of local suppliers’ chain. The outcomes allowed the company to win the contest, getting a new trolley model for public use -nowadays running-, while enhancing its environmental, ergonomic, social and economic features, as well as optimizing its function. In short, a range of competitive advantages were achieved within a typology of product destined for the collection of garbage, but whose own embedded impact is paradoxical and often ignored.