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Are You A Designer Or An Engineer? We Are Both. An Insight Into Product Design Engineering Through Graduate Reflection, Blair Kuys, Clara C. Usma-Alvarez, Charlie Ranscombe
Are You A Designer Or An Engineer? We Are Both. An Insight Into Product Design Engineering Through Graduate Reflection, Blair Kuys, Clara C. Usma-Alvarez, Charlie Ranscombe
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This study was developed to understand the relationship between Product Design Engineering education and Product Design Engineers in industry. It is the intention of the authors to communicate data gathered from Product Design Engineering graduates from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, to better determine the roles and responsibilities of a Product Design Engineer in the workforce. This information provides a learning platform for other Product Design Engineering programs, as well as create a greater understanding in industry as to what a Product Design Engineer can contribute to product development or manufacturing industries. The overall objective of this research …
Change Through Service Design – Service Prototyping As A Tool For Learning And Transformation, Essi Kuure, Satu Miettinen, Mira Alhonsuo
Change Through Service Design – Service Prototyping As A Tool For Learning And Transformation, Essi Kuure, Satu Miettinen, Mira Alhonsuo
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This article aims to explain how transformational change can be achieved through service design process and methods, especially through service prototyping, and how the learning process enables change. Results are based on case study research conducted in a service prototyping laboratory, SINCO (Service Innovation Corner), during a MediPro (Practices, Processes and Products for Medicine and Healthcare) research project. This paper examines if SINCO service prototyping methods can influence transformational change in companies and organizations, what kinds of learning processes SINCO and service prototyping activate, and how the service design process is constructed when using the SINCO environment. The aim of …
The Design Alphabet For Textiles As Applied Method At The Frontiers Of Textile Design Research, Andrea Weber Marin, Isabel Rosa Mueggler Zumstein, Françoise Adler, Janine Haeberle, Kim Poldner
The Design Alphabet For Textiles As Applied Method At The Frontiers Of Textile Design Research, Andrea Weber Marin, Isabel Rosa Mueggler Zumstein, Françoise Adler, Janine Haeberle, Kim Poldner
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In applied textile design research between institutions and industry members the project groups are mainly interdisciplinary and it is therefore necessary to find agreement on the design vision in order to achieve results successfully and to communicate with the partners from different fields. Our textile design research method (TDRM) addresses this kind of interdisciplinary framework for design research in order to structure the collaboration within our practice-based context. The method consists of four steps, which have been identified as being crucial to the application of product language to textile design research projects: 1) Design Vision; 2) Systematic experiments; 3) Design …
An Aesthetic Approach To The Use Of Textiles In Architecture, Tina Moor, Andrea Weber Marin, Janine Häberle
An Aesthetic Approach To The Use Of Textiles In Architecture, Tina Moor, Andrea Weber Marin, Janine Häberle
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Current trends indicate that ways of living will change due to longer life expectation, urbanization, scarcity of raw materials and energy resources and increased mobility leading to a need for flexible housing.1. 2. Using textiles in architecture can be energy efficient and economic: it is lighter to transport and easier to (dis)assemble. We are interested in an aesthetic approach to using textiles in architecture: textiles can i.e. be soft, foldable, elastic and they are available in a variety of colours and textures. We want to play with the sensory capacity of textile to give architectural spaces a different touch and …
A Framework For Design And Assessment Of Products In Developing Countries, Timothy Whitehead, Mark Evans, Guy Bingham
A Framework For Design And Assessment Of Products In Developing Countries, Timothy Whitehead, Mark Evans, Guy Bingham
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In an attempt to increase opportunity and quality of life for people in poverty, governments and non-government organisations (NGOs) sell and donate products to developing countries. Typically these are essential household items such as cookstoves, water filters, and solar lighting. However, to date there has been limited research into the uptake and long term effectiveness of these products. To overcome this problem and provide guidance to future and existing designers and NGOs an assessment framework has been created consisting of eight critical indicators for product success. These indicators have been identified from a literature review, the analysis of 63 products …
Ecological Perception: Seeing Systems, Joanna Boehnert
Ecological Perception: Seeing Systems, Joanna Boehnert
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Graphic designers have the unique ability to make hidden ecological processes visible by revealing relationships, patterns and dynamics in complex socio-ecological systems. This paper describes how communication design can support relational perceptual practices and even nurture ecological perception. It presents specific methods to harness the latent potential of graphic design to communicate the context, comparisons, connections and causality. It proposes that aesthetics experiences can provoke deep perceptual insights supporting new ways of perceiving our relationship with the environment, our ecological context. In ways described in this paper, graphic design has the potential to nurture the ability to ‘see systems’ – …
Design Prospects: Investigating Design Fiction Via A Rogue Urban Drone, Andrew Morrison
Design Prospects: Investigating Design Fiction Via A Rogue Urban Drone, Andrew Morrison
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Design fiction is garnering attention as a mode of inquiry on the prospective in design practice and inquiry. This paper addresses design fiction as a potential area for design research to explore communicatively. The paper does so through a performative essayistic research text. Presented are extracts from an online visual-verbal hypernarrative and expository research writing. The performative exploration includes views from the persona of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone policing a near future city. Her perspectives are prospective. However, the urban ‘drone-gone-rogue’ is crafted as a design fictional rhetorical device to comment on topical issues in the hereand- …
Transforming User Information Into User Knowledge: A Multiple Case Study, Isil Oygur
Transforming User Information Into User Knowledge: A Multiple Case Study, Isil Oygur
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This paper reports a multiple case study conducted at six design consultancies from the fields of architecture, industrial design, and interior design. The data was collected through short-term field studies at each consultancy. The focus was on exploring how designers know about users while designing. According to the constructivist learning theory, the learner is not a passive receiver of information. Instead, learning requires construction of knowledge from information. In line with this theory, it was observed that in their design process, designers at studied consultancies did not always utilize the user information available to them as it is. Instead, designers’ …
Adaptable Interface Model For Intuitively Learnable Interfaces: An Approach To Address Diversity In Older Users' Capabilities, Gudur Raghavendra Reddy, Thea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Doug Mahar
Adaptable Interface Model For Intuitively Learnable Interfaces: An Approach To Address Diversity In Older Users' Capabilities, Gudur Raghavendra Reddy, Thea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Doug Mahar
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This study started with the aim to develop an approach that will help designers create interfaces that are more intuitive for older adults to use. Two objectives were set for this study: 1) to investigate one of the possible strategies for developing intuitive interfaces for older people; and 2) to investigate factors that could interfere with intuitive use. This paper briefly presents the outcome of the two experiments and how it has lead to the development of an adaptable interface design model that will help designers develop interfaces that are intuitive to learn and, over time, intuitive to use for …
Defining The Experiential Aspects Of Passengers' Comfort In The Aircraft Interior An Empirical Study, Naseem Ahmadpour, Gitte Lindgaard, Jean-Marc Robert, Bernard Pownall
Defining The Experiential Aspects Of Passengers' Comfort In The Aircraft Interior An Empirical Study, Naseem Ahmadpour, Gitte Lindgaard, Jean-Marc Robert, Bernard Pownall
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The wellbeing and comfort of passengers have always been a concern for the aerospace industry; passenger comfort has therefore been subjected to a lot of research in the past few decades. While previous studies aimed at setting priorities for the aircraft interior elements that are significant to passenger’s comfort, this paper introduces passenger’s perception of those contextual elements in relation to comfort experience. Eight themes of passenger’s perceptions during the flight are identified as the result of a qualitative data analysis. They are named peace of mind, physical wellbeing, proxemics, pleasure, satisfaction, aesthetics, social, and association. The implication of some …
Examining Intuitive Navigation In Airports, Andrew Cave, Alethea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Ben Kraal
Examining Intuitive Navigation In Airports, Andrew Cave, Alethea Blackler, Vesna Popovic, Ben Kraal
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Airports accommodate passengers with a range of prior experience, from frequent flyers, to passengers who fly every couple of years, to those who have never flown before. Passengers with varying levels of prior experience may use different visual elements when navigating the airport. Ensuring all passengers can navigate to the processing activities intuitively is important for passengers, airports and airlines. This paper examines how participants with Low, Medium and High airport familiarity navigate through the departures area at an Australian international airport. Three navigation activities are investigated (i) navigating to the check-in row, (ii) navigating through the Liquids, Aerosols and …
Research-Based Design And Research Through Design: A Case Study Of The Improvement In The User Experience Of An Autism Caregiver Using Ict, Chun-Meng Cheng, Hsien-Hui Tang, Miao-En Chien, Ni-Miao Lin, Mike Y. Chen
Research-Based Design And Research Through Design: A Case Study Of The Improvement In The User Experience Of An Autism Caregiver Using Ict, Chun-Meng Cheng, Hsien-Hui Tang, Miao-En Chien, Ni-Miao Lin, Mike Y. Chen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
There is a long history in design study of focusing on designers, but this does not connect well with industry and the end products of design. With the emerging importance of user experience (UX), we argue that what is needed is a new kind of design study that focuses on users, relates to the end products, and results in mutual benefits for research and practice. It is both “research-based design” and “research through design”. The design process of iCAN was used to demonstrate a new kind of design study that combines both design research and design practice. iCAN is an …
Ergonomics Information Flow In Product Design: A Case Study About Handles Used By Turkish Furniture Producers, Yener Altıparmakoğulları, Ilgım Eroğlu
Ergonomics Information Flow In Product Design: A Case Study About Handles Used By Turkish Furniture Producers, Yener Altıparmakoğulları, Ilgım Eroğlu
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Ergonomics aspects are usually considered within a product design process from the beginning, and therefore all possible ergonomics issues should be taken into account in this phase. However, designers sometimes use readily designed sub-elements (semi-finished products) like accessories, where the criteria for the evaluation of their ergonomics may differ when they are used as an element of a new design. In this paper, it was investigated how the ergonomics evaluation process takes place when designers tend to use a semi-finished product in their designs. As a case study, furniture handle production and application is researched, and interviews are conducted among …
Design As Rhetoric In The Discourse Of Resonance, Veronika Kelly
Design As Rhetoric In The Discourse Of Resonance, Veronika Kelly
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design that is effective by way of having an influence and impact on a human subject’s belief, behaviour, or action is a key concern of designers in the field of visual communications. Because of these aspects, one discourse that has grown in scholarly circles over recent decades is that design is a form of rhetoric. Nonetheless, the way that rhetoric has been applied to design practice itself – as a means of analysing the communicative function of designed artefacts and to posit propositions for practice – has remained largely theoretical. The purpose of this paper is to extend an understanding …
A Study Of Cultural Products And The Characteristics Of Qualia, Hui Yun Yen, Po Hsien Lin, Rungtai Lin
A Study Of Cultural Products And The Characteristics Of Qualia, Hui Yun Yen, Po Hsien Lin, Rungtai Lin
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In recent years, countries worldwide have been attempting to use their culture as a feature in increasing the value of creative design for developing an aesthetic economy. The interface of product aesthetics gives people a sense of beauty and impression and encourages people to consume and collect. Therefore, successful products should conform to the 5 factors of qualia: attractiveness, beauty, creativity, delicacy, and engineering. We chose cultural products from the cultural creative awards in Taiwan to be the stimulus samples to investigate the participants’ psychological feelings. The purpose of this study was to discover the correspondence between product textures and …
Employing Poetry Culture For Creative Design With Six-Standpoints, Moli Yeh, Chiu Wei Chien, Rungtai Lin
Employing Poetry Culture For Creative Design With Six-Standpoints, Moli Yeh, Chiu Wei Chien, Rungtai Lin
DRS Biennial Conference Series
In recent years, countries from all over the world have been attempting to employ their “Culture” as features in increasing the value of “Creative Design” for developing an aesthetic economy. Chinese traditional poetry, full of expression created with poets’ fascinating words and still highly appreciated today, carries not only our predecessors’ wisdom but also principles which correspond to those for modern creative design. This study starts with the distinctive features of our classical poetry, lays its foundation on traditional theory of Chinese poetry, consults literature regarding the feasibility of employing poetry for cultural creative design, and furthers the trend for …
Archaeology Of The Future Reconsidering The Place And Nature Of Trend Forecasting In Design Discourse, Elisabeth Petermann
Archaeology Of The Future Reconsidering The Place And Nature Of Trend Forecasting In Design Discourse, Elisabeth Petermann
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This paper examines the place of trend forecasting in current design debates concerning the varying notion of design being a change agent and crafting the future, in order to point to a limited understanding of trend forecasting within these debates. Moreover, the paper indicates research gaps in the rare examinations of the phenomenon of trend forecasting. It is almost as if trend forecasting is an invisible force and an intangible phenomenon. Its directive power remains unrecognized and therefore under-conceptualized in design discourse. The practice is considered as commercial and thus unworthy for academic attention. Therefore this paper illustrates briefly the …
Tool Complexes Of Innovation: Spaces For Explorative Innovation In Four Manufacturing Industrial Companies, Jennie Schaeffer, Yvonne Eriksson
Tool Complexes Of Innovation: Spaces For Explorative Innovation In Four Manufacturing Industrial Companies, Jennie Schaeffer, Yvonne Eriksson
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Providing an environment in which both radical innovation and continuous improvement can exist, i.e. an ambidextrous environment, is one of the biggest challenges management faces. While having an ambidextrous organisation is of central importance to the competitive advantage of a firm, there is limited understanding of how to manage it. In this article, we are reporting on our research on the design of workspaces and the relations between design and ambidexterity in innovation. We studied the workspaces as artefacts in innovation cultures. We analysed relations between users and spaces that could enable an explorative innovation culture to emerge, and found …
What Can Urbanism Be? Problematizing The Design Of Cities, Aseem Inam
What Can Urbanism Be? Problematizing The Design Of Cities, Aseem Inam
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In this paper, I highlight a number of different ways of defining and describing the field conventionally known as urban design, which I problematize by broadening, deepening, and calling urbanism and which I re-define as city-design-and-building processes and their spatial products. These ways include morphological definitions, as a default focus, as the keeper of the public realm, through lists of categories, as a map of bodies of knowledge, as a field of research, as different modes of practice, via models for understanding and making cities, and practical “how-to” approaches such as best practices. I describe and critique each of these …
Communication Design As An Agent In Creating Gender Equality In India, Nicola St John
Communication Design As An Agent In Creating Gender Equality In India, Nicola St John
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Developing from the field of behavior change through design, this study investigated if communication design is an effective tool in changing cultural behaviors and perceptions of gender in India. Previous studies on gender violence campaigns (Gadornski, 2001; Murphy, 2009; Kostick et al., 2011) suggest utilising men and traditional gender stereotypes are effective in creating behavior change. Yet there exists a gap on specific cultural roles and changing ingrained behaviors. This study focuses on the necessary recognition of cultural traditions and behaviours that must precede any design activity within an epistemological setting. Developing communication strategy within sensitive and complex social issues …
Our Common Future? Political Questions For Designing Social Innovation, Ramia Mazé
Our Common Future? Political Questions For Designing Social Innovation, Ramia Mazé
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Design roles are expanding in society, as reflected in a growth of interest and funding for design and design research in the area of ‘social innovation’. By social innovation here, I refer to the provision of social services and resources, such as habitation, education, care, mobility and food, in which design is increasingly engaged in the complexity and dynamics of local provision of such services and resources, and in the co-production of alternatives. The question of designing for social innovation necessarily involves political questions about the role of design in how, where, by and for whom, and in what forms, …
Social Design Principles And Practices, Inês Veiga, Rita Almendra
Social Design Principles And Practices, Inês Veiga, Rita Almendra
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Last century, a new design area bond with new aims and principles emerged, committed to answer more urgent and relevant needs of humanity. Multiple terms come forward to identify it a nd because there isn't a unifying language among its practitioners, questions have been raised about whether they refer to a general area in design or to single design practices. T his “social” vocabulary, caused so far enormous controversy and dispersion of this area in design that wants – and today it needs – to assert itself practically and theoretically. In this paper, we propose to clarify some of these …
The Reappearing Computer: The Past And Future Of Computing In Design Research, Simone Gristwood, Stephen Boyd Davis
The Reappearing Computer: The Past And Future Of Computing In Design Research, Simone Gristwood, Stephen Boyd Davis
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This paper investigates the early history of computing in design and in design research, focusing on individuals who were associated with the Department of Design Research at the Royal College of Art between the 1960s and the 1980s. The authors suggest that the theory and practice developed at that time may be valuable in thinking about the future, particularly when considering how computing may be used, in various forms, by designers in their work. A taxonomy of some early ideas and activities is presented which, it is suggested, displays a different emphasis from the way computing in design is conceived …
User Diversity In Design For Behavior Change, Aykut Coskun, Cigdem Erbug
User Diversity In Design For Behavior Change, Aykut Coskun, Cigdem Erbug
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Recently, using design to change user behavior for the purpose of sustainability has gained considerable interest. One of the essential aspects of design for behavior change is to choose the right design intervention strategy for the right behaviors and for the right individuals. In this respect, consideration of different user characteristics when designing for behavior change is critical to ensure positive behavior change. This paper argues that user diversity can be addressed by grouping users with similar characteristics into different user types. It provides a framework and a methodology to create these user types based on psychological variables including global …
Social Implication Design (Sid) – A Design Method To Exploit The Unique Value Of The Artefact To Counteract Social Problems, Nynke Tromp, Paul Hekkert
Social Implication Design (Sid) – A Design Method To Exploit The Unique Value Of The Artefact To Counteract Social Problems, Nynke Tromp, Paul Hekkert
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The role of design in changing people’s behaviour and causing social implications has been referred to as an inherent aspect of design. In taking responsibility for this influence of design, emphasis is often placed on the prevention of undesired consequences rather than the realization of desired ones. Little research exists on how to exploit this implicit yet inevitable role of design in the social realm. This paper presents the development of a method to help designers in exploiting this influence of design to realize social benefit. We explain how design is part of the ‘choice architecture’ in social dilemmas and …
Designing For Democracy: Using Design Activism To Renegotiate The Roles And Rights For Patients, Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen, Signe Mårbjerg Thomsen, Jette Ammentorp
Designing For Democracy: Using Design Activism To Renegotiate The Roles And Rights For Patients, Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen, Signe Mårbjerg Thomsen, Jette Ammentorp
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In this paper we focus on ‘patient-democracy’ and ‘shared decision-making’ seen from the perspective of design practice and design research. In the research on democracy in healthcare it is rarely questioned what forms of democracy underlies these concepts. We have examined three different theories of democracy and the democratic practices that belong to each of these. For designers working to increase patient democracy it is of vital importance to be able to distinguish different structures underlying democratic practices and to work out methods for prototyping democracy. In design research there are already a number of approaches available which in one …
The Impact Of Cultural Differences In Design Thinking Education, Katja Thoring, Carmen Luippold, Roland M. Mueller
The Impact Of Cultural Differences In Design Thinking Education, Katja Thoring, Carmen Luippold, Roland M. Mueller
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Design thinking is a specific method to develop innovative solutions to wicked problems in multidisciplinary teams. The fact that people with different disciplinary and often also cultural backgrounds work together, makes it quite a challenge to compensate for deficits in common understanding of terminologies or mind-sets. Furthermore, team members from specific cultures and nationalities might have difficulties to cope with specific mindsets of design thinking. This paper analyses the impact of culture on the design thinking process in an educational context. How do people from different cultural backgrounds cope with the requirements of the design thinking mind-set? We suggest a …
Tools For Effective Communication About Technologies Of Domestic Ubiquitous Computing Systems In User-Centered Design, Wonjun Wonjun, Yeoreum Lee, Jong-Bum Woo, Jinmin Seok, Ingeon Shin, Youn-Kyung Lim
Tools For Effective Communication About Technologies Of Domestic Ubiquitous Computing Systems In User-Centered Design, Wonjun Wonjun, Yeoreum Lee, Jong-Bum Woo, Jinmin Seok, Ingeon Shin, Youn-Kyung Lim
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In the early stages of designing domestic, ubiquitous computing applications, gaining users’ descriptions of how new technologies can shape their futures can be an effective way to collect credible design ideas and to understand users’ personal values and social settings. We present two kinds of tools for empowering users to verbalize their own needs with metaphoric expressions of technologies, 5Senses Cards and Technology Type cards. Those tools are suggested as aids for the user inquiries in the field aimed at needs identification. We tested those tools in 6 homes and found empirical evidences which suggest that 5Senses Cards could encourage …
Enhancing Collective Creativity With Enactment: A Comparative Study Of Design Research Methods, Emily E. Strouse
Enhancing Collective Creativity With Enactment: A Comparative Study Of Design Research Methods, Emily E. Strouse
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This research explores how dynamically moving one's body as a means of creating meaning and imaging the new can impact one's creative abilities and expression. The behavior and creative output of small groups of people engaged in creative sessions were investigated. They explored the question “What’s next?” using one of four methods: ~ Traditional focus group ~ Image collaging1 ~ Sandquery2 ~ Enactavision3 People’s use of the three participatory methods (image collaging, Sandquery and Enactavision) was compared to the control condition (traditional focus group). Each method followed a similar script and used the same activities and post-session questionnaire. Triangulation of …
Industrial Designers And Engineering Designers; Causes Of Conflicts, Resolving Strategies, And Perceived Image Of Each Other, Kwanmyung Kim, Kun-Pyo Lee
Industrial Designers And Engineering Designers; Causes Of Conflicts, Resolving Strategies, And Perceived Image Of Each Other, Kwanmyung Kim, Kun-Pyo Lee
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What causes the conflicts between industrial designers and engineering designers? How are these conflicts resolved? Furthermore, what view point does each group form toward the other from their dynamic interaction? This study explores a consumer product company to answer these questions. Three industrial designers and three engineering designers working on the same product development were interviewed. As a result, this paper presents the causes of conflicts, conflict resolution strategies, and perceived image of each group. Two types of conflict causes, direct causes and basic causes, are reported. The direct causes are related to tasks in the design process, and the …