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Exploring The Design Applications Of Key Emerging Materials From Natural Sciences Through A Design Ideation Workshop, Muhammad Tufail, Xinyi Wang, Aichu Tian, Xinye Li, Sai Yin Leung, Sahr Uzma, Hyunyim Park, Kwanmyung Kim
Exploring The Design Applications Of Key Emerging Materials From Natural Sciences Through A Design Ideation Workshop, Muhammad Tufail, Xinyi Wang, Aichu Tian, Xinye Li, Sai Yin Leung, Sahr Uzma, Hyunyim Park, Kwanmyung Kim
IASDR Conference Series
The design direction is shifting towards new design landscapes with alive and adaptive aesthetic features and functions and confronting natural alternative designs. Designers, architects, and artists have proposed the exploration of emerging materials by exploiting synthetic biology, bionics, chemical technology, and material science to create new design alternatives with natural aesthetic features and functions. In practice, however, designers are not properly familiar with the potential applications of these emerging materials and their alive and adaptive aesthetic and functional features in product design. Thus, particularly in traditional product design development, the applications of these materials are untouched resulting from three hindering …
Examining Performance Of Vr Sketch Modeling Tool In Personal Sketches, Ming-Huang Lin, I-Chen Chiang, Ling Lee, Hao-Xuan Lu
Examining Performance Of Vr Sketch Modeling Tool In Personal Sketches, Ming-Huang Lin, I-Chen Chiang, Ling Lee, Hao-Xuan Lu
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This study examined the performance of the virtual reality (VR) sketch mod- eling tool Gravity Sketch in the early stage of design and explored its advantages and disadvantages. In the experiment, nine graduate students in the field of design with several months of experience with Gravity Sketch sketched ideas in VR and on paper. Qualitative analysis was performed using retrospective methods and grounded theory. The results revealed that fewer sketches were produced and less time was spent on design thinking in VR than on paper because (1) sketches created using the VR tool are three-dimensional models and (2) the high …
Upcycling Discarded Hdpe Plastic Bags For Creative Exploration In Product Design, Himani Deshpande, Jin Yu, Akash Talyan, Noah Posner, Clement Zheng, Hyunjoo Oh
Upcycling Discarded Hdpe Plastic Bags For Creative Exploration In Product Design, Himani Deshpande, Jin Yu, Akash Talyan, Noah Posner, Clement Zheng, Hyunjoo Oh
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Upcycling enables new product production out of discarded materials. This paper presents a new structured process to support designers to use discarded HDPE plastic bags as useful and meaningful materials for creative exploration. The proposed process involves a four-step fabrication workflow using tools and machines widely available in design studios: (1) preparing a stack of plastic sheets, (2) fusing the stack of materials to create a new plastic sheet with intended thickness, (3) cutting and scoring the fused sheet to create parts, and (4) assembling the parts to build 3D artifacts. To assist the fabrication, we also present a custom …
Bio-Based Plastics In Durable Applications: The Future Of Sustainable Product Design? A Design Review, Puck Bos, Conny Bakker, Ruud Balkenende, Benjamin Sprecher
Bio-Based Plastics In Durable Applications: The Future Of Sustainable Product Design? A Design Review, Puck Bos, Conny Bakker, Ruud Balkenende, Benjamin Sprecher
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This design review evaluates the use of bio-based plastics in durable consumer products. The main question is: how does the use of bio-based plastics influence the product’s design, functionality, marketing & communication, and sustainability? Although higher material prices would lead one to expect that higher value applications would be targeted, research shows bio-based plastics are mainly used in short-lived applications like packaging. This study investigates their use in durable consumer products through a design review. The results indicate that bio-based plastic usage is still in its early days in durable products. Bio-based plastics appear to be utilized as straightforward replacement …
Designing Menstruation: An Examination Into The Influence Of Experiences On The Use Of Menstrual Products, Ihsan Kamil, Muireann Mcmahon
Designing Menstruation: An Examination Into The Influence Of Experiences On The Use Of Menstrual Products, Ihsan Kamil, Muireann Mcmahon
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This study examines the experiences of eight menstruators and the impact these experiences have had on their attitudes towards menstruation and menstrual products. Participants engaged in a virtual workshop and discussed their personal experiences, both positive and negative, their opinions on various menstrual products, and the impact their experiences had on their attitudes towards menstruation and menstrual products. The findings from this study were thematically coded, and the influence of experiences on product choices was subsequently discussed. The varying needs of participants were also highlighted and discussed. Additionally, this study has identified that existing menstrual products do not meet all …
Connecting Creative Product Design Processes To Creative Product Design Outcomes: A Scoping Review, Peiying Jian, Jin Gu, Alison Olechowski
Connecting Creative Product Design Processes To Creative Product Design Outcomes: A Scoping Review, Peiying Jian, Jin Gu, Alison Olechowski
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Generating repeatable guidelines for designing creative products has long been an aim of the design research community. Even so, a widely trusted or agreed-upon process has not yet emerged. As a first step toward this goal, it is important to take stock of the reported connections between creative design processes and creative design outcomes. Thus, we conducted a scoping review focusing on creative prod-uct design. Our search identified 130 papers published from 1969 to 2021. The most frequent study type was a proposal paper (n = 53). Twenty-seven of the included papers used experimental methods. When connecting the creative design …
Manta And Cactaceae: Rehabilitative Smartphone Accessories For People With Chronic Mild Stroke Impairments, Mailin Lemke, Edgar Rodríguez Ramírez, Brian Robinson
Manta And Cactaceae: Rehabilitative Smartphone Accessories For People With Chronic Mild Stroke Impairments, Mailin Lemke, Edgar Rodríguez Ramírez, Brian Robinson
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Stroke causes damage to the brain, often resulting in weakness or paralysis on one side of the body. Everyday objects such as smartphones can play an im-portant role after a stroke facilitating participation in daily activities. However, commercial smartphones can be challenging to use, and people with stroke of-ten adjust their behavior to minimize the affected arm and hand use. This study explores how an object attached to a smartphone could evoke behavior change and contribute to the initiation of use of the affected arm. As part of a design workshop, different ideas were envisioned to promote the use initiation …
The Introduction Of New Technologies In Design: A Brazilian Perspective, Denise Silva Batista, Priscilla Streit, Sydney Fernandes Freitas
The Introduction Of New Technologies In Design: A Brazilian Perspective, Denise Silva Batista, Priscilla Streit, Sydney Fernandes Freitas
Learn X Design Conference Series
Design as a field of developing new products and interfaces has been following some technological innovations, such as the appearance of new software and tools that allow the product designer perform various tasks such as product analysis. Today there are new challenges to the design field, such as continuous learning and operation of computerized equipment. The objective of this paper is to show how new technologies are related to the development process of product design by Brazilian designers.