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A practical approach to translate social cultural patterns into new design
Nijkamp, Maaike; Garde, Julia // 2010
People buy products to express their desired identity and therefore prefer products that fit their own personality. The personality of products is created by implicit and explicit design features. ...
A Review of Sustainability within Product and Industrial Design Courses in British Universities
Watkins, Matthew Alan; Lofthouse, Vicky // 2010
This paper presents preliminary research from a doctoral study which is investigating effective sustainable product design education in British universities, with respect to how social aspects ...
A Study of the Relations Between the Demands of the Industry and the Capacity of the Graduated Industrial Designers in Iran
Mosaddad, Seyed-Hashem; Naeini, Hasan Sadeghi // 2010
The industrial design has been created in some Iranian universities since 1983. As a new discipline, it faces certain challenges and weaknesses in terms of educational concepts. According to the ...
Allowing Playfulness - Examining Innovativeness
Lindh Karlsson, Monica; Berglund, Anders; Ritzen, Sofia // 2010
A child’s playfulness and ability to fantasize are also key creative mechanisms in adulthood. Allowing low formal control functions and high self determination is valuable for intrinsic motivation, ...
An educational and commercial product design symbiosis: a case study
Dyer, Bryce Thomas Jeffrey; Glasspool, Chris; Terry, Simon // 2010
Product design education has been one of the most exciting and vibrant study paths in the last two decades. It presents students the opportunity to develop their skills and talents to create ...
APPLICATION OF REVERSE ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES IN THE TEACHING OF ENGINEERING DESIGN
Calderon, M. L. // 2010
Existing studies show that D/A/A (Disassemble, Analyse, Assemble) activities can become a popular pedagogy to provide engineering design students practical hands-on experience in the classroom, ...
Artistic Versus Generic Design Creativity
Brix, Anders // 2010
The field of design is expanding as new areas of application and new approaches are being developed. Different concepts of design obviously leads to deviant notions of creativity. If creativity is ...
Assessment Criteria for Interaction Design Projects: Fostering Professional Perspectives on the Design Process
Arvola, Mattias // 2010
Quite often the product of design is assessed in interaction design education, but we need to develop criteria also for courses that focus on learning to conduct and manage the design process. An ...
ASSESSMENT OF THESES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Watty, R.; Kreimeyer, M.; Hoffmann-Berling, P. // 2010
Professional engineers do not only require technical knowledge but also the ability to apply it successfully to design problems in the “real world”. The necessarily required skills can be acquired by ...
Better collaborative projects with the industry
Eriksen, Kaare; Schou,Finn; Jaiger, Thomas Arvid // 2010
There are several problems to handle when setting up collaborative projects between University Design Programs and external partners like companies. Research in this area would therefore be ...
Bringing together industrial design and engineering design education
Schroeer, Bernd; Herberg, Arne; Frackenpohl, Thorsten // 2010
Practical experience shows that the cooperation of engineering design and industrial design within product development is strongly required for developing innovative products. However, ...
Can the use of an I-Pod improve the learning and teaching process for design students
Forkes, Andrew D // 2010
With the adoption of virtual learning environments (VLE) such as Blackboard, the ability for students to capture content from lectures for reviewing has been improved, however, with the advent ...
Changeability: Unfolding a Method for Learning and Designing in a Fast Paced Market
Ovesen, Nis // 2010
This paper addresses the discussion about how designers and design educations should consider the challenges of increasingly faster and unpredictably changing markets. By looking into the domains of ...
Communicative affordance of industrial design sketching
Razzaghi, Mohammad; Nouri, Mobina // 2010
Design sketching, as a key designing technique and a rapid visual demonstration of design thinking, reasoning, and exploration, is being vastly utilized by industrial designers to communicate ...
COMPREHENSIVE USE OF A DSM-BASED METHODOLOGY IN AN ACADEMIC SETTING
Platanitis, G.; Pop-Iliev, R.; Barari, A. // 2010
The process dynamics of a 3rd year design project are analyzed using DSM methodologies. First, the stability characteristics are determined. Then a sensitivity analysis is performed to compare ...
David and Goliath Crossing the Bridge
Christiaans, Henri; Almendra, Rita Assoreira // 2010
This paper presents the comparison of two different Design Education institutions regarding: a) the existence, weight and role of research disciplines in the Design program; b) the theme and nature ...
Design Education as a Passport to Professional Practice
Tovey, Michael John; Bull, Karen // 2010
The idea of a community of professional practice is a powerful one. There are communities of design practitioners for such groups as architects, graphic designers and others (this is illustrated ...
Design education as research playground
Sonneveld, Marina Henrieke // 2010
Most design researchers working in Design Schools are involved in design education. These two activities, research and education, have the potential to feed and inspire each other, because they ...
Design Thinking: An Educational Model towards Creative Confidence
Rauth, Ingo; Köppen, Eva; Jobst, Birgit; Meinel, Christoph // 2010
Design creativity is one of the most relevant fields in design and innovation. To better understand the effectiveness and origin of it, this study draws attention to the question of how design ...
Design Tribes and information spaces for creative conversations
Bardill ,Andy; Griffiths, Wyn; Fields, Bob;Jones, Sara // 2010
This paper reports on work in progress to augment the role and practice of Creative Conversations in product design education. We describe changes in practice designed to elevate the importance ...
Design, sustainability and behaviour change
Andrews, Deborah // 2010
ell-established and positive reputation for high quality research, enterprise, under and post-graduate courses in the field of sustainable design and engineering. Experience of working in these areas ...
Designing Across Disciplines: A Graduate Project in Packaging Re–Design
Lilly, Blaine; Williams, Callida; Gill , Carolina // 2010
Packaging design is inherently multi–disciplinary due to the conflicting constraints imposed by users at every step of the product design and manufacturing process. As such, it provides us with an ...
Designing and Facilitating Learning in a Cooperative Setting
Poulsen, Søren Bolvig; Rustrup, Louise Lønborg; Mortensen, Helle; Mølholt, Louise; // 2010
This paper unfolds how learning for design-engineer students can be established and facilitated in a dynamic research setting, between academics and industrial partners. It challenges years of ...
Developing Enterprise Opportunities from Placements to Graduate Consultancy in Lean Sustainable Design
Humphries-Smith, Tania Maxine; Hunt, Clive // 2010
This paper reports on the adaption of a model for consultancy of using graduates working on a contract basis for Bournemouth University (BU) but within a client organisation, and managed by a
member ...
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.