Query returned 1974 results.
Design and Social Innovation in Vulnerable Communities
Mejia, Luis; Betancourt, Maria Clara // 2012
Industrial Design’s responsibility is to design friendly environments for users that minimize the impact of proposed solutions ensuring that these will be regenerative and that they will give back ...
Design Briefs: Is there a Standard?
Jones, Wyn M.; Haugen Askland, Hedda // 2012
The brief is an essential part of the design process and marks the beginning of any design project, both within the realms of education and practice. It is used to help the designer to understand the ...
Design Competence in ICT Education
Gulden, Tore; Sandnes, Frode Eika; Habib, Laurence // 2012
The new discrimination law in Norway requires new products and environments to be developed in such a way that they can be used by as many people as possible. In response to this legislation the ...
Design Education: Empirical Investigations of Design Theory in Practice in Specific Context
Boruah, Dipanka; Das, Dr. Amarendra Kumar // 2012
The present extent and content of designers’ work has changed from those in the past. Green and Bonollo mention seven phases in the product development process. The global market becoming ...
Design Fixations Among Information Design Students: What has been Seen Cannot be Unseen
Andersson, Carina Aina Kristina; Eriksson, Yvonne; Frank, Lasse; Nicholl, B.A. // 2012
This research explores the phenomenon of design fixation by studying undergraduate design students undertaking an information product design problem. The research is based on a case study, with 64 ...
Design for Sustainable Behaviour in Design Education
Boks, Casper; Zachrisson Daae, Johannes // 2012
This paper reports on how Design for Sustainable Behaviour has been integrated in a design course. Based on a teaching philosophy aiming to provide students with a holistic view on design, and ...
Design Thinking and Aesthetic Meaning-Making: Interlaced Means to Engage in Collaborative Knowledge-Building
Zahedi, Mithra; Poldma, Tiiu; Baha, Ehsan; Haats, Tim // 2012
Engaging in knowledge building that is collaborative and that integrates design thinking among interdisciplinary teams is increasingly a means to innovate in product and service design and in ...
Designer Storytelling
Parkinson, David; Bohemia, Erik // 2012
This paper aims to explore the approaches that designers take when storytelling. Design artefacts, such as sketches, models, storyboards and multimedia presentations, are often described in terms of ...
Discourse of Design and Art Education
Freimane, Aija // 2012
Although design has its roots in arts education, in the context of economic crisis and the need to develop Creative Industries in Latvia, it was decided to re-profile 100 professional art teachers to ...
Drafting of a Patent Application as a Strategy for Engineering Design Education
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2012
This article highlights the process of designing, with drafting a patent as strategy to improve the designs of new products, in academia. The patent system discourages the copy of registered ...
Drama in Design: An Open Brief to Design for Wellbeing
Liao, Tjhien Yuan; Person , Oscar // 2012
This paper presents a design module in which student teams were challenged in an open brief to design for wellbeing. To design for wellbeing is difficult. Wellbeing is ambiguous, hard to define and ...
Educating Critical Thinking in Design Research
Almendra, Rita Assoreira // 2012
This paper presents a study done in 2010 as part of a course named design critics that integrates the curricular year of a Design PhD program in a Portuguese University that works according to the ...
Educational Bridge Between Students and Professional in Building Industry
Zeiler, Wim // 2012
Within the building industry there is a clear need for more sustainable solutions, with as ultimate goal Zero Emission Buildings. This makes building design more complex. Building design transfers ...
Educational Practices for Collaborative Distributed Design of an Innovative Eco-Designed Product
SEGONDS, Frédéric; MARANZANA, Nicolas; ROSE Bertrand and CAILLAUD, Emmanuel // 2012
This article presents an academic experiment in the design of an innovative eco-product, by two Master's degree student teams from two universities. The originality of the work is that it promotes a ...
Establishing CAD and PDM as Part of Engineering Education in Large Classes for Undergraduate Students
Geier, Martin // 2012
Computer Aided Design and Product Data Management software has become a standard in almost all sectors of mechanical engineering. Therefore companies expect experience with such environments from ...
Evaluating Learning Dynamics within a Landscape of Student Centred Learning
Morris, Richard; Katz, Tim; Covill, Derek; Milne, Mark // 2012
One of the problems with any educational model is substantiating claims for effectiveness. Hence whilst a number of studies suggest that student centred learning (or aspects of it) is good practice, ...
Felicities and Fallacies of Teaching Design Theory: A Comparative Study
Keitsch, Martina Maria; Hjort Af Ornas, Viktor // 2012
The scope of design has changed significantly in the last decades - from a focus on material aspects to the intangible, from functionality to pleasure, and from making products to providing services ...
Fewer Constraints More Creativity? Insights from an Educational Science Fiction Project
Thoring, K.; Mueller, R. M. // 2012
This article presents a case study of an experimental product design project in the context of design education. Short stories by Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick were used as the source of ...
Final Year Induction - Re-motivation and Re-engagement
Maxine Humphries-Smith, Tania; Glasspool, Chris // 2012
This paper considers design education in practice and reports on a new experience undertaken at Bournemouth University with final year BA/BSc Product Design students. Increasingly, students returning ...
FLEXIBILITY OF CHOICE AND PERCEIVED IMPACT OF USING Design methods
Owusu, I. A.; Daalhuizen ,J. J.; Stappers, P. J. // 2012
Existing studies show that designers that feel free to adapt a method to the situation at hand tend to perform better than designers that either ‘muddle through’ without a method or that strictly ...
Forming a Mindset: Design Students' Preconceptions about the Usefulness of Systematic Methods
Person, Oscar; Daalhuizen, Jaap; Gattol, Valentin // 2012
Teaching students to use systematic design methods effectively is not straightforward. While method teaching often focuses on the procedural aspects of method usage (e.g., what steps to take and in ...
Foroba Yelen: Portable Solar Lighting and Sustainable Strategies for Remove Malian Villages
Hall, Ashley; Konate, Boukary; Kulkarni, Amrita // 2012
Foroba Yelen (‘collective light’ in the Malian Bambara language) is a collaboration between staff and students from the Innovation Design Engineering dual masters programme at the Royal College of ...
From Design Education to User-Driven Innovation and Back Again
Tollestrup, Christian; Eriksen, Kaare // 2012
Can distilled design methods for non-designers to user-driven innovation inform design education of Industrial Designers? In 2010 a project on employee driven innovation in the Hospital Sector with ...
From Different Angles: Exploring and Applying the Design Potential of Video
Pasman, Gert // 2012
Recent developments in both hardware and software have brought video within the scope of design students as a new visual design tool. Being more and more equipped with cameras, for example in their ...
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.