Query returned 1983 results.
New Competencies Required in Future Development of Design Education
Crea, Nicola // 2014
Evolving from his early abilities of artist applied to improve industrial serial products, the designer should be able now to manage the whole process of innovation, from detection of user needs to ...
New Design is Bigger and Harder - Design Mastery in a Changing World
Bailey, Mark; Aftab, Mersha; Duncan, Trevor // 2014
Design-led, transformative innovation, with social or commercial value, is achieved through an increasingly complex and diverse spectrum of contexts requiring a broad range of specialist knowledge ...
New Teaching Designs Applied in Engineering Schools: An Empirical Case Study on Non Technical Subjects
Presoto, Anderson Edilson; Baldichia, Lucas; L., Ana // 2014
Brazilian public universities, in particular, engineering schools, have been founded inspired by European models: students following a learning process in a passive mode, where knowledge is ...
OFFSHORING OF ENGINEERING SERVICES: A CASE STUDY FROM THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Simplay, S.; Hansen, Z. // 2014
Offshoring of engineering services in the automotive industry is progressively increasing with organisations taking advantage of low cost regions and highly educated workforce.
This paper presents ...
Olfactory Considerations in Design, A New Dimension to Product Experience
Daams, Brecht // 2014
Olfactory sense is not often incorporated in ergonomics and product design, even though it is a part of sensory ergonomics just as sight and hearing are. Technical developments allow nowadays to ...
Open Design as an Education Tool in Architectural Studies
Vazakas, Alexandros Theocharis // 2014
The paper presents a course that introduces Architecture students to product design, materials, techniques and fabrication processes. The course uses a combination of digital fabrication tools and ...
Organisational Culture as the Mechanism for Internationalising Innovation Platforms
Oinonen, Paivi // 2014
Aalto University Design Factory (ADF) is a passion-based co-creation platform, which aims to change the paradigm of industry collaboration in universities. Simultaneously the ability to respond to ...
Pay it forward - Planning and Assessment of a Coaching Seminar for Global-Design Team Alumni
Hager, Franziska; Kowark, Thomas; Uflacker, Matthias // 2014
Global design teams have different problems and needs throughout their projects. For the teams’ coaches this can amount to a high workload acquainting themselves with new topics and preparing ...
Pedagogy: Leading Technology
Marsh, Phillipa; Arthur, Les // 2014
This paper is based upon a combined 40 years of experience the authors have in working with and teaching technology in Further and Higher Education. The relationship between students, technology and ...
Personalizing our Approach to Design
Siggard, Jennifer Liane; Furner, Tressa Ellen; Sumsion, Cecily; Morgan, David // 2014
Our Industrial Design program is predominantly male. As women, we compared our performance and methods to those of our male classmates’. In our eyes, we lacked something that we could not pinpoint. ...
Political Action and Implicit Knowledge in Engineering Education: A Case Study
Bromberg, Sergio; Polo, Viviana // 2014
The educational act is a political act, where information and data are just a fraction of what should be taught. Indeed, there has been much literature on the subject of promoting creativity, ...
Positive Ethics in Design Education
Sonneveld, Marina Henrieke // 2014
Technology has a strong impact on the way we live our lives, on our behaviour. Technology seems thereby to be a strong factor in the ethical aspects of our daily live. Being aware of these aspects is ...
Problem Based Learning versus Design Thinking in Team Based Project Work
Stokholm, Marianne // 2014
All educations at Aalborg University has since 1974 been rooted in Problem Based Learning (PBL). In 1999 a new education in Industrial design was set up, introducing Design Based Learning (DBL). ...
Product Design Education: Different Perspectives
Connor, Christopher John; Beckwith, Mark // 2014
This paper explores the differing approaches and experiences of two tertiary level courses provided by two UK University providers within the Product Design subject area. Both institutions provide ...
Promoting Environmental Sustainability by Fostering a Culture of Material Ethics
Chance, Shannon; O'Rourke, Pearl // 2014
Creating a culture of ‘material ethics’ can help engineers and product designers in the quest to achieve environmental sustainability. By framing this particular issue and focusing attention on it, ...
PROTOTYPING WITH LASER CUTTERS IN LARGE ENGINEERING DESIGN CLASSES
Meboldt, M.; Lohmeyer, Q.; Leutenecker ,B. // 2014
Laser cutters are small machine tools that process CAD data to accurately cut sheet material made of wood or acrylic glass. This paper investigates the question of how prototyping with laser cutters ...
Public Bicycles: How the Concept of Human-Oriented ‘Mobility Sharing’ Technology can Influence Travel Behaviour Norms and Reshape Design Education
Nikitas, Alexandros; Wallgren, Pontus; Rahe, Ulrike // 2014
se systems are currently on three dissimilar operational phases spanning from bidding for funding to actually having a fairly successful system already in place. As a matter of fact, the choice of ...
Putting Something into Play – Reflections on Video as a Creative Tool in Design
Vibeke, Sj // 2014
In design, video is typically used as a tool for presentation, instruction, or observation. The use of video for creation and discovery as part of the design process is new terrain. This article ...
Raising Designers' Awareness of User Experience by Mobile Eye Tracking Records
Mussgnug, Moritz; Lohmeyer, Quentin; Meboldt, Mirko // 2014
Understanding the interaction between a user and a product in different areas of application provides an excellent basis for the development of innovative user-oriented products. ...
Reflection in Design Education Using Visual Technology
Stoltenberg, Einar; Sj, Vibeke // 2014
Product design students are trained to express themselves through visual media like two-dimensional (2D) and 3D drawing, prototyping, and digital media. Thus, written language is not always their ...
Representation and Evaluation of Product Design in Research Assessment Exercises: A Case Study of the UK Ref 2014
Maher, Carmel; Hadfield, Mark; Hutchings, Maggie; de Eyto, Adam // 2014
The social practice of design and design research and is continually evolving to meet the needs of society. Its representation and evaluation in research assessment exercises, such as the UK ...
RP vs Workshop: How Modelling Methods affect Early Design Development
Underwood, Gary // 2014
has long been established as a crucial part of the Product Design process. In recent years Rapid Prototyping (RP) has played an increasingly important role in this area, within industry and ...
Sendai School of Design: Project Driven Design Education Based on a Wide Range of Highly Adaptive Collaboration
Motoe, Masashige // 2014
Sendai School of Design is a design education program to nurture collaborative creative workers as personnel who will help activate the local area launched by Tohoku University in cooperation with ...
Social Cohesion Design, A Course for Designing Community Integrated Product Systems
de Lange, Tjamme; Vergeest, Jors // 2014
Design students are typically not educated in systematically including aspects of social cohesion in their designer practice. This paper describes the Social Cohesion Design course, an explorative ...
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.