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What if Creativity were 60 things not one: Towards a grammar of design
Greene, Richard Tabor // 2010
This paper reports pilot study results on 3 things: a) Creativity Models as a Possible Language of Design--- designers and others segment detailed protocols of actual design processes at points where ...
What is the Problem – Sustainability beyond light globes and water buckets?
Clune, Stephen John // 2010
This paper presents a methodology in an attempt to address the lacuna between the scale of unsustainability described in the literature – and the initiatives employed by designers and the ...
WHERE DO INNOVATIONS COME FROM?
Ericson, A.; Karlsson, A.; Wenngren, J.; Törlind, P. // 2010
This paper is based on a descriptive study of two types of innovation awards within a manufacturing company. The purpose is to identify sources and understand the background of these awarded ...
Wissensstruktur zur Integration von Konstruktionswissen in agentenbasierte Unterstützungssysteme
Kratzer, M.; Binz, H.; Roth, D. // 2010
Das an der Universität Stuttgart entwickelte agentenbasierte System ProKon (Proaktive Unterstützung von Konstruktionsprozessen durch Softwareagentensysteme) ist ein Unterstützungssystem, das den ...
Writing in Design: Lessons from Lucerne
Nyffenegger, Franziska Katharina // 2010
This paper examines the use of blogs in the context of a new Swiss MA programme in design. Design students regularly feel ambivalent and openly reluctant about writing assignments. They lack casual ...
“Mind the Oddness Trap!” - Theory and Practice in Design Thinking
Noweski, Christine; Meinel, Christoph // 2010
In design thinking, theory and practice are closely interconnected. The theory serves as a blueprint, guiding companies in general and design teams in particular through the design process. Given ...
"Soft" Problems with Consumer Electronics and the Influence of User Characteristics
Kim, Chajoong; Christiaans, Henri H. C. M. // 2009
The paper reports a study into the complaints of consumers about "soft" problems they have experienced using new electronic household products. These problems cannot be traced back to a ...
20 Jahre Symposium DFX
Gendarz, P. // 2009
Die Hauptmethodologischen Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit von Prof. H. Meerkamm ist das Fertigungsgerechte Konstruieren, welches eng mit der Rechnerunterstützung verbunden ist. Moderne ...
A Case Study of Affordance and Affordance Feature Identification through User Observation
Kim, Yong Se; Kim, Min Kyoung; Jeong, Ji Yun; Park, Jin A // 2009
This paper investigates the relationships between affordances and affordance features, which are very critical to conveniently allow human activities or behaviors under given tasks. Affordance ...
A Case Study of Idea Work in the Early Phases of Product Development
Gish, Liv; Clausen, Christian; Hansen, Claus Thorp // 2009
Focus in this paper is on the early innovation activities, in particular idea work. Based on a case study from industrial practice on the development of a new circulator (the Alpha Pro circulator) we ...
A case study on engineering faculty design projects
Begum, Margahan // 2009
There is an established trend in engineering education to incorporate a design component for preparing students for real life practice. A recent report entitled Educating Engineers for the 21st ...
A Decision Support System Designed for Personalized Maintenance Recommendation Based on Proactive Maintenance
Huang, Ying; Gardoni, Mickaël; Coulibaly, Amadou // 2009
Product manuals play a more and more important role in improving customer satisfaction. Many kinds of product manuals are developed to support the product utilization during the life of the product. ...
A Descriptive Model of the Current Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Development Process
Sagoo, Jeevan; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Alcock, Jeffrey // 2009
This paper uses the IDEFØ process modelling technique to present an "As-Is" model for the current process of developing generic MEMS devices, this new model is based on information from ...
A Design Methodology to Overcome Local Effects in Joining Sandwich Materials
Krishnamoorthy, Sivakumara Kannappan; Feldhusen, Jörg // 2009
This paper proposes a design methodology which emphasizes the usage of CAE tools to overcome local effects in joining sandwich materials at an early stage of the product development. Several case ...
A Design Science Approach to Analytical Product Design
Frischknecht, Bart; Gonzalez, Rich; Papalambros, Panos; Reid, Tahira // 2009
Product design involves many diverse disciplines and is often treated as an experience-based skill based on an apprenticeship learning process. While this is a valuable approach, it can be greatly ...
A Dialectical Approach to Solve Inventive Problems Using Genetic Algorithms and TRIZ: Searching for a Computer Aided Innovation Shell
Duran-Novoa, Roberto Alejandro; Leon-Rovira, Noel; Uresti, Eduardo // 2009
Inventive problems need creativity to be solved, which is usually believed to be beyond comprehension and, thus, methodology. TRIZ and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) have shown that this is at least ...
A Direction of Ideas in Conceptual Design Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Miyashita, Tomoyuki; Satoh, Daisuke // 2009
In conceptual design phase, if designers are much more conscious of design objectives, they won't come up with various ideas about new product. On the other hand, using brainstorming allow to ...
A DSM-based Method for Investigating the Impact of Random Disturbances on the Outcome of a Design Project
Platanitis, G.; Pop-Iliev, R.; Barari, A. // 2009
A Formalization of CK Design Theory Based on Intuitionist Logic
Kazakçi, O.Akin // 2009
The paper introduces a formalization of Concept-Knowledge (CK) theory of design reasoning based on Intuitionist Logic and Kripke type semantics. The concept space is de ned as a tree of formulae ...
A Framework for Balancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Innovative Product Design
Marion, Tucker J. // 2009
Improved design innovation through the use of new product development activities, methods, and tools has been an area of fertile research for the past several decades for both academics and ...
A Framework for DSM-based Pre-modelling Analysis of Complex Systems
Diepold, K. J.; Winkler, F. J.; Lohmann, B.; Kortler, S. // 2009
A General Management System for Design Outsourcing
Dandache, Moustapha Rakan; Bocquet, Jean Claude // 2009
Industrial firms are recently turning to outsourcing design. Unlike in manufacturing the context in design is characterized by a lot of uncertainty. Technology and knowledge are critical when ...
A Generic Tool to Study Human Design Activities
Kan, Jeff Wai Tak; Gero, John S. // 2009
This paper reports on the results of using an ontologically-based generic approach to carry out protocol analyses of designers. The Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) ontology has been proposed as the ...
A Highly Flexible Project Maturity Management Method for the Early Phase of Product Development
Jahn, Tobias; Binz, Hansgeorg // 2009
The development process of innovative systems, especially in the very early phase, is characterized by high uncertainty and has high influence on the succeeding development tasks. But still it lacks ...
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.