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Bauhaus and Ming-Style – A Comparative Study to Contribute to the Understanding of Cultural Impact on Product Design
Wu, Wenyu; Brezing, Alex // 2012
the global design community, the name of the famous German institution stands for one of the biggest influences on modern design. Bauhaus furniture meant a disruptive change in style in its time, ...
Characterizing activities that promote ideation – Survey construction targeting reflictive pRactices
Currano, R. M.; Steinert, M. // 2012
Idea generation in engineering design is most often studied within the context of specific tasks, such as brainstorming, mindmapping, TRIZ, etc. Additionally, researchers tend to constrain their ...
Cognitive Load Management and Architectural Design Outcomes
Mohamed-Ahmed, A.; Bonnardel, N.; Côté, P.; Tremblay, S. // 2012
The aim of this study was to analyze the link between the way designers manage cognitive load during the process of architectural design and the outcome of this process, that is, the quality of the ...
Coming of Age as Design(er) for Social Sustainability
Asheim, Jonas; Kj, Anders // 2012
Based on a reflection on a multi-disciplinary design project in Haiti, this paper aims to discuss how social sustainability, in particular from an emerging economy and developing world perspective, ...
Computer Aided Design as an Idea and Concept Generation Tool in the Early Stages of the Design Process
Liem, Andre // 2012
This article claims that in certain circumstances digital visual representations (CAD) can facilitate a better understanding of the form than sketches and drawings, in the early creative idea and ...
Conditional DSM
Chang, C.-W.; Chiang, D.M. // 2012
Identifying critical activities or subsystems is usually the first step in reducing the complexity of systems. The design structure matrix (DSM) is a highly effective tool for managing a complex ...
CREATING A RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT FOR THE EVALUATION OF Design education IN EMBODIMENT DESIGN
Spitas, C., Badke-Schaub, P.; Spitas, V.; Rajabalinejad, M.; Karana, E. // 2012
In this paper we present a theoretically motivated and evaluation-centred research approach which aims to analyse behaviour patterns of students when dealing with complex problems in embodiment ...
Creating an Innovative Attitude at Work
Eriksen, Kaare; Tollestrup, Christian // 2012
This paper focuses on the introduction of creative methods and approaches to the staff in a major public service institution in collaboration with design researchers and design students. The project ...
Creating Novel Product Form based on Formal Aesthetics - A Method for Advanced Form Design Education
Rahe, Ulrike; Babapour, Maral; , Bj // 2012
One of the most distinct aspects of creativity in design is an aesthetic sense, an indubitable determinant of product success in the market. It is therefore of great importance to nurture creativity ...
Creative Animation Design for Inverse Kinematics Motions of Shadowgraphs Shadow Puppets in Taiwan
Liao, G. // 2012
Shadowgraph is the featured traditional folk culture and art in Taiwan. The operators play the roles of Shadow Puppets with the puppets‘ performance according to the stories and the plots. This study ...
Creativity Comparisons between Japanese and European at the Concept Creation Stage
Gentner, A.; Bouchard, C.; Esquivel, D.; Oprea, G. // 2012
The study presented in this article aims to measure the impact of sensory, cognitive and affective modalities and the influence of designer‘s culture on the association of ideas phase during creative ...
Defining Creativity as Problem Solving in Graphic Design Education
Alhajri, S. A. // 2012
yet it is difficult to find a definition of creativity that suits all fields. This paper argues that creativity in relation to graphic design education can be defined as problem solving. This paper ...
Design Fixations Among Information Design Students: What has been Seen Cannot be Unseen
Andersson, Carina Aina Kristina; Eriksson, Yvonne; Frank, Lasse; Nicholl, B.A. // 2012
This research explores the phenomenon of design fixation by studying undergraduate design students undertaking an information product design problem. The research is based on a case study, with 64 ...
DESIGN FOR HUMAN - VIRTUAL ENGINEERING IS A MEDIA FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Leino, S. -P.; Pulkkinen, A. // 2012
Aim of our research is to develop support for better human-machine system design. The fundamental idea of the support introduced in this paper is based on virtual engineering based knowledge transfer ...
DESIGN FOR INNOVATION
Cantamessa,M.; Cascini ,G.; Montagna, F. // 2012
The paper proposes “Design for Innovation” as a new perspective for design aimed at addressing the multi-actor contexts of the innovation adoption and diffusion processes. Four areas should ...
Design for Sustainable Behaviour in Design Education
Boks, Casper; Zachrisson Daae, Johannes // 2012
This paper reports on how Design for Sustainable Behaviour has been integrated in a design course. Based on a teaching philosophy aiming to provide students with a holistic view on design, and ...
Design Thinking and Aesthetic Meaning-Making: Interlaced Means to Engage in Collaborative Knowledge-Building
Zahedi, Mithra; Poldma, Tiiu; Baha, Ehsan; Haats, Tim // 2012
Engaging in knowledge building that is collaborative and that integrates design thinking among interdisciplinary teams is increasingly a means to innovate in product and service design and in ...
Designer Storytelling
Parkinson, David; Bohemia, Erik // 2012
This paper aims to explore the approaches that designers take when storytelling. Design artefacts, such as sketches, models, storyboards and multimedia presentations, are often described in terms of ...
Designing Emotional Services for Underground Stations
Pillan, M.; Maiocchi, M.; Galli, F. // 2012
Underground stations, while offering necessary access points to public transportation service facilities, offer great opportunities of urban dinamization. The paper presents the results of a design ...
Designing interoperable lean, agile, resilient and green industrial ecosystems
Cabral, I.; Grilo, A. // 2012
This paper describes current research aiming at exploring the applicability of Axiomatic Design and Design Structure Matrix in developing a systematic methodology for collaborative business platforms ...
Determinig the Degree of Parallelisation in a Tri-process-modelling-tool
Sz, Nikoletta // 2012
This paper focuses on optimisation of processes within product develoment. The paper presents various modelling technigues and languages. It concentrates on how to optimise processes with the aid of ...
Die Rolle des Wissensingenieurs im Unternehmen – Ergebnisse einer Umfrage und Darstellung in der VDI-Richtlinie "Wissensbasiertes Konstruieren" (Members only )
Luft, Thomas; Breitsprecher, Thilo; Roth, Daniel; Lindow, Kai; Wartzack, Sandro; Binz, Hansgeorg // 2012
Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) offers a variety of methods and tools to design engineers in order to meet the challenges of modern product development processes. However, no universal and ...
Discourse of Design and Art Education
Freimane, Aija // 2012
Although design has its roots in arts education, in the context of economic crisis and the need to develop Creative Industries in Latvia, it was decided to re-profile 100 professional art teachers to ...
ECO-DESIGN FOR MICROELECTRONIC PRODUCTS: MEASUREMENT AND INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA FOR PACKAGE DESIGN
Villard, A.; Petit, L.; Lelah, A.; Brissaud, D. // 2012
This paper presents an eco-design tool, dedicated to designers of packages for microelectronic components. The tool aims to increase designers’ environmental consciousness and to drive them to ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.