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Systems thinking and connecting the silos of design education
Park, Hyuna; Benson, Eric // 2013
While the design industry is a complex and multidimensional landscape, the current design curriculum lives in stark contrast: linear and compartmentalized. University product design curricula are ...
Tangible ideation: how digital fabrication acts as a catalyst in the early steps of product development
Valamanesh, Roozbeh; Shin, Dosun // 2013
Embodiment of a concept has constantly been a preventive factor in creativity when it comes to complex topics. This has been moderated by emergence of digital fabrication since late 80âs. Making ...
Testing the value of TRIZ and its derivatives for knowledge transfer in problem solving attempts by multidisciplinary teams
Schöfer, Malte; Maranzana, Nicolas; Aoussat, Ameziane; Bersano, Giacomo // 2013
The design process of ever more complex products requires an increasing amount of knowledge originating in ever more distant domains of expertise. However, in order to make the knowledge transfer ...
The creative act is done on the hybrid machine
Wendrich, Robert E. // 2013
Ideas are hard to find, people love to have ideas! Having lots of ideas looks like you really are very creative and that you must posses very special talents more than anybody else around you. Often ...
The database of motion constructed by focusing on mimetic wordsâFor designing a creative and emotional motion
Koguchi, Yohei; Yamada, Kaori; Taura, Toshiharu // 2013
We have been developing a method to design a creative and emotional âmotionâ that may resonate with deep feelings that are difficult to describe verbally. In our previous study, we proposed a ...
The effect of digital media on design communication and creativity in a design group: A studio as a case study
Chen, Zi Ru // 2013
Design is a group behavior and creativity is the result of social interaction. Digital media are regarded both as the environment in which designers accomplish creative ideas and as a platform of ...
The innovation paradox: starting from what is âknownâ to facilitate the discovery of the âunknownâ
Vandenhende, Karel // 2013
How can we teach students to design creatively? From the literature on early stages in effective learning processes, we know that for education to be effective, design assignments should evolve from ...
The making of a journey-identifying new design approaches in contemporary art
Sjovoll, Vibeke; Gulden, Tore // 2013
This article explores how approaches identified in contemporary art can offer new perspectives in design education. The inquiry is done by involving product design students in such approaches through ...
The role of the design coach - a novel approach to achieving 360 collaboration between industry and higher education
Styger, Lee Edward Jan; Ellis, Ian // 2013
There is significant latent design talent within the broader business community, however, much of the design potential is isolated, and, lacks the necessary focus to manifest positive commercial ...
Towards a new perspective of managing ideas in front-end innovation as actor networks
Vagn, Anna Rose; Clausen, Christian; Gish, Liv // 2013
For decades the innovation process in R&D organisations has been discussed. Product development processes is well-established in R&D organisations and improvements has been implemented through ...
Understanding fixation effects in creativity: A design-theory approach
Agogue, Marine; Cassotti, Mathieu // 2013
Despite diverse studies grasping at different aspects of fixation in creativity and design reasoning, the underlying mechanisms of fixation, i.e. the processes that lead to being fixed on a small ...
Using qualitative research methods in engineering design research
Daly, Shanna; McGowan, Anna; Papalambros, Panos // 2013
In order to support successful strategies in design education and practice, we must have a deep understanding of the complex dynamics of design processes, teams, contexts, and systems. Facilitating ...
Wheel of design â reflective alignment of design skills with aspirations
Bull, Karen Lisa; Barrett, Alan; Osmond, Jane // 2013
The increased focus on modularisation within the western Higher Education curriculum is criticised by some as leading to a fragmentation of the learning process. This fragmentation can lead to ...
"Critical Mass of Ideas": A Model of Incubation in Brainstorming
Sosa, R.; Gero, J. S. // 2012
This paper presents the results of experiments with a computational model of group brainstorming as an environment to study the role of incubation in creativity. In this model, exploration refers to ...
'Kids in Design‘: Designing Creative Schools with Children
Izadpanahi, P.; Xu, L.; , H. Elkadi; Ang, S. // 2012
There is a consensus that children should be involved in the planning and design process of their schools, and attempts have been made throughout the world. This paper introduces ...
5 SENSES OF INTERACTION - A MODEL FOR CATEGORISING COLLABORATIVE TOOLS AND CREATIVE METHODS
Törlind, P.; Garrido ,P. // 2012
Collaborative tools today are not adapted to the real needs of the collaborators, instead the collaborators have to adapt to existing technology. This work explore the designer’s behaviour in ...
A FRAMEWORK FOR DOMAIN ALLOCATION IN EARLY PHASES OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEM DESIGN
Köster, M.; Sadek, T. // 2012
The possibility of mutually interchange products and services complicates the development of an industrial Product-Service System (IPS²) that meets the requirements in an optimal manner. In this ...
A Holistic Approach to Product Design
Koohgilani, Mehran; Khan, Zulfiqar; Parkinson, Biran // 2012
The demand and expectations for manufactured products continues to grow whilst the level of technology employed in their design becoming more sophisticated and critical. As a result, in educating ...
A Proposal of Metrics to Assess the Creativity of Designed Services
Borgianni, Y.; Cascini, G.; Rotini, F. // 2012
An emerging thread of research is represented by the attempt of quantitatively assessing creativity, its dimensions and how it influences the design process. The endeavour of previous works has ...
Adopting 'FabLab' Model to Embed Creative Entrepreneurship Across Design Program
Pengelly, Jon; Fairburn, Sue; Newlands, Bruce // 2012
This paper sets out to describe and contextualize the impact a new FabLab workshop program has had on the direction and curriculum development at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University ...
Amabile‘s Consensual Assessment Technique: Why Has It Not Been Used more in Design Creativity Research?
Jeffries, K. K. // 2012
Amabile‘s Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) has been described as ...
An Improvement in Method: From User Study First To Fast Concept Design First
Li, L.; Hu, Y.; Galli, F. // 2012
The most common design process in the interaction design industry is user research-concept design-prototype testing. This process can help designers to identify target users, design products, and ...
ANALYSING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WORKING PRACTICES FOR ENHANCING INNOVATION THROUGH COLLABORATION AND SIMULATION
Galea, A.; Francalanza, E.; Farrugia, P. J.; Borg ,J. C. // 2012
Both stakeholder collaboration and artefact simulation are important for supporting innovation, the first through the availability of more ideas and the latter for analysing the feasibility of these ...
Analysis of User Feelings during Interface Operation: Implictions for Creative Design
Georgiev, G. V.; Nagai, Y.; Taura, T.; Noda, S.; Willy, D. // 2012
This research proposes a new approach for creative design based on comprehension of human feelings during user interface operation. The discussed method in this approach captures verbal input during ...
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.