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Junior Designers’ Awareness Of Personal Values And Their Employment Choices, Anna Jonkmans, Julia Wurl, Dirk Snelders, Lenny Van Onselen
Junior Designers’ Awareness Of Personal Values And Their Employment Choices, Anna Jonkmans, Julia Wurl, Dirk Snelders, Lenny Van Onselen
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For junior designers, friction between personal and organizational values can lead to frustration. This paper addresses job selection choices of junior designers, and how they are affected by an awareness of personal values. An experiment (n=106) shows how an explicit awareness of personal values (based on the Schwartz Value Survey) affects the choices and motivations of junior designers. Results show that, overall, junior designers select vacancies that express values that are congruent with their own values. In addition, a greater awareness of personal values is found to lead to more confidence in one’s choice, and to a greater tendency to …
How Companies Adopt Different Design Approaches, Kwanmyung Kim
How Companies Adopt Different Design Approaches, Kwanmyung Kim
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Product design process cannot be explained without both industrial design and engineering design. However, the two fields have different design approaches toward product design. This study explored different types of combined design approaches that companies adopt with industrial design and engineering design. Industrial designers and engineering designers from six global consumer product companies were interviewed. As a result, three different types of combined design approaches; Industrial design-led design process, engineering design-led design process, and cooperative design process were identified. The companies adopted the processes differently based on their purpose and situations. In particular, Industrial design-led design process cases were strongly …
Open Practices: Lessons From Co-Design Of Public Services For Behaviour Change, Simon O’Rafferty, Adam Deeyto, Huw Lewis
Open Practices: Lessons From Co-Design Of Public Services For Behaviour Change, Simon O’Rafferty, Adam Deeyto, Huw Lewis
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This paper explores what the distinctive value of design may be in a policy context. The paper broadly supports the contention by Smith and Otto (2014) that design offers a “distinct way of knowing that incorporates both analysing and doing in the process of constructing knowledge”. The paper will also outline potential limitations of the direct translating of design practice and methods into a policy context. To achieve this, the paper uses insights gained from an on-going design research project, Open Practices, which aims to co-design services and policy interventions to enable sustainable behaviour change. In this case, co-design, as …
Design Tools For Enhanced New Product Development In Low Income Economies, Timothy Whitehead, Mark Evans, Guy Bingham
Design Tools For Enhanced New Product Development In Low Income Economies, Timothy Whitehead, Mark Evans, Guy Bingham
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In order to alleviate poverty throughout the World government and non‐ government organisations provide aid in the form of essential household products. These products typically include cook stoves, water filters and LED lights. However, evidence suggests that these products are not always suitable for Low Income Economies (LIEs) which has resulted in a number of high profile product failures. In response to the growing need for appropriate New Product Development (NPD), this paper presents the development of a tool to assist industrial designers create appropriate and long lasting solutions for those in poverty. Data was collected from the analysis of …
Future Product Ecosystems: Discovering The Value Of Connections, Tim Williams, Marianella Chamorro-Koc
Future Product Ecosystems: Discovering The Value Of Connections, Tim Williams, Marianella Chamorro-Koc
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Product Ecosystem Theory is an emerging approach to help understand the value networks that exist between products within a system. As products become increasingly interconnected, understanding the value that is gained from those connections becomes ever more important. This paper explores the concept of product ecosystems and how this concept can be employed in mapping current products’ evolution as well as that of new product conceptual development. Case studies using both hindsight from historical design and foresight from new product propositions reveal the different connections that take place or need to be considered in the emerging landscape of product ecosystems. …
Elucidating Perceptions Of Australian And Chinese Industrial Design From The Next Generation Of Industrial Designers, Blair Kuys, Wenwen Zhang
Elucidating Perceptions Of Australian And Chinese Industrial Design From The Next Generation Of Industrial Designers, Blair Kuys, Wenwen Zhang
DRS Biennial Conference Series
China is passing through a challenging transition: the labour-force expansion and surging investment that propelled three decades of growth are now weakening. Australia is experiencing similar issues. In Australia the economy over this same period has survived on mainly mining of natural resources mostly exported to China. This cannot be sustained and a push from a resource economy to a knowledge economy needs to start. This study goes into detail about perceived issues associated with industrial design programs at a university level in both China and Australia. It then consists of a pilot survey targeted at Chinese and Australian industrial …