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RULES AND COMPLEX THINKING IN DESIGN EDUCATION

Gulden, Tore; Sjřvoll, Vibeke // 2015
This article seeks to reformulate the notion of basics as rules within the context of design education. The typical design education curriculum introduces design methods as a pedagogical approach. ...

SAND CASTING ON THE BEACH - INTRODUCING TRADITIONAL MAKING SKILLS, MATERIALS AND PROCESS THROUGH PLAY AND EXPERIMENTATION

Stoltenberg, Einar; Firth, Richard // 2015
Within the higher education (HE) product design field, many researchers stress the importance for students to recognise and value the relationship between practical 3D object-making experience, and ...

SCIENCE INFORMED DESIGN: INVOLVING THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES

McCardle, John R // 2015
Eminent designers and engineers have historically been cited as inspirational polymaths with the ability to utilize a wide range of information to form a rational idea and create a concept. If ...

SOCIAL PARTICIPATORY TEACHING AND LEARNING – LESSONS FROM A PARTNERSHIP OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS AND LOCAL ARTISANS

Briede, Juan Carlos; Cabello, Marcela; Olivera, Pablo; Mora, Marcela; Pérez, Marcela // 2015
Regional industrial design education aims to reinvent itself and adapt to local realities, such as the demands of industry and society, while providing object-oriented solutions. Artisan ...

STUDENT DESIGN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, FROM CONCEPT TO RETAIL IN NINETY DAYS

Elaver, Richard // 2015
The intent of this paper is to outline the need and benefit of integrating design entrepreneurship
training in product design education, and to provide a case-study for how to create an ...

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXCELLENT DESIGNERS – FINDINGS FROM AN INTERVIEW STUDY WITH SWEDISH INNOVATORS

Axelsson, Louise; Blome, Simon; Nourbarpour, Dennis; Naenzen, Johan; Yvonne, Platon; Malmqvist, Johan Lars // 2015
Some designers are more successful than others. They have the ability to repeatedly generate new and innovative solutions to challenging problems. In this paper, we refer to designers who possess ...

The Creativity Gap in Chinese Knitwear Industry  (Members only )

Zhang, X.; Gale, C.; Eckert, C. // 2015
As products have become more homogenous, the
Chinese knitwear market has been shrinking during the last
decade. This paper argues that this is due to a lack of design
creativity in Chinese ...

THE IMPACT OF DESIGN METHODS ON THE CREATIVITY OF 1ST-YEAR ENGINEERING STUDENT PROJECTS: THE CASE OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

Beghelli, Alejandra; Prieto, Pablo // 2015
Engineers able to produce creative products are very much required everywhere. However, classical engineering courses  especially the courses of the first two years of the career- tend to be ...

THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT MEDIA INSTRUCTIONS ON SOLVING A PROCEDURAL TASK

Chirumalla, Koteshwar; Eriksson, Yvonne; Eriksson, Pelle // 2015
This study investigates the influence of different forms of media instructions on the process and outcomes of completing a specific procedural task. The experiment was conducted with four student ...

THE MATERIALITY OF COLOUR IN DESIGN EDUCATION: FUNCTIONAL CODES AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

Berg, Arild // 2015
Colour competence is often seen as a basic knowledge introduced in the early stage of product design
education. A knowledge gap was identified that required more advanced learning outcomes for ...

THE PROBLEM REVISITED: TEACHING THE PBL APPROACH TO DESIGN STUDENTS

Ovesen, Nis // 2015
Problem-based learning (PBL) is becoming increasingly popular in design educations, but how is it
taught and practiced? This paper presents a case study of a three-day workshop that has the purpose ...

THE PURPOSE OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEVELOPMENT – DILEMMA OF ETHICAL & SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DESIGN BACHELOR AND MASTER PROJECTS IN LATVIA

Freimane, Aija // 2015
Industrial production is highlighted as the main source of development and well-being for the people. It is expected that design both as a process and the result helps to generate profit but ethical ...

Three Design Principles for Higher Order Thinking – Ascending Order of Complexity and Descending Order of Response

Mange, P. A.; Adane, V.S.; Nafde, R.R. // 2015
The paper aims at identification of methodical process to bridge disparities between the learning and teaching process of architectural design at architectural schools. This disparity was observed ...

TOWARDS THE CHEQUERED FLAG: A COLLABORATIVE CROSS LEVEL ENGINEERING APPRECIATION CHALLENGE FOR BSC PRODUCT DESIGN STUDENTS

Watkins, Matthew; Crisp, Alan; Harmer, Luke // 2015
This paper concerns pedagogic research, which explores the process and student benefits of a collaborative ‘design and build’ engineering team activity. The need remains, post Finniston, for students ...

UNDERSTANDING AND CREATING 3D FORMS USING FAMILIAR OBJECTS

Zahedi, Mithra; Azouz, Zoubeir // 2015
ribe three-dimensional (3D) forms in two dimensions. However, given the aptitude of today’s students to operate 3Dmodelling software and the general accessibility of current technology, spatial ...

UNDERSTANDING THE CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN DESIGN AND NON-DESIGN BACKGROUND STUDENTS IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

Kim, Chajoong; Kim, Yeonghun // 2015
As only technical advancement in the market is not enough to meet increasingly higher expectations of users, companies have tried to take the initiative through multi-disciplinary approach in the ...

UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES. CASE OF A UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY-ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT

Lloveras, Joaquim // 2015
This article describes the author’s experience in R&D projects developed in collaboration with industrial companies or the state administration ─agreements─ and their relation with university ...

USING SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT TO INSPIRE DESIGN LEARNING

De Vere, Ian; Phillips, Robert // 2015
Social design and ‘design for need’ are important frameworks for establishing ethical understanding amongst novice product designers. Typically, product design is a value-adding activity where ...

VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS AS A BRIDGE FOR ENGINEERS AND BIOLOGISTS IN BIO-INSPIRED DESIGN COLLABORATIONS

Hashemi Farzaneh, Helena; Helms, Katharina; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
In technical product development, engineers address technical problems by developing innovative solutions. An approach to develop ideas with a high potential for technical innovation is bio-inspired ...

WHAT ARE DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY FOR?

Southee, Darren // 2015
In 2011, a report by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review in the UK stated, “Despite
their importance in balanced educational provision, we are not entirely persuaded of claims that ...

WHAT WE LEARN FROM EXPERTS ABOUT ENQUIRY WHEN WE ENGAGE IN PROBLEM SOLVING

Haupt, Grietjie // 2015
This paper outlines a small-scale design-based research project in progress that attempts (a) to understand the use of enquiry during the early phases of the design process from an extended cognition ...

WHY INTERNATIONALISATION OF DESIGN EDUCATION BENEFITS UK STUDENTS

Hilton, Clive // 2015
Chinese design students are drawn to the UK for a variety of reasons, not least of which is a consequent increase in their worth in a post-graduation employment market. By undertaking a UK design ...

WRITING A PHD IN DESIGN AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER - INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN EDUCATION (CASE STUDY TEXTILE ENGINEERING + DESIGN)

Wachs, Marina-Elena // 2015
The structure of European doctoral programs in design with international comparison in cooperation programs is focused on creating a structured program for a PhD in design with international academic ...

"Should I Patent This"?

Howell, Bryan // 2014
This paper addresses the recent legal and cultural evolutions within the United States Intellectual Property system and its impact on Industrial Design students. It reviews how the United States ...

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.

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