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Towards a Science of Design as a Basis of Education

Finkelstein, Ludwik // 2011
Design may be defined as a system of activities, which transform the perception of a need into the knowledge required to make or implement an artefact, process or system to satisfy the need. It is ...

TRIZ-Box in Design Education - A Study on Supporting Creativity

Albers, Albert; Lohmeyer, Quentin; Schmalenbach, Hannes // 2011
Creativity is an essential part of innovative product development and the origin of successful products. Several methods support activities in developing innovative products, one of them is TRIZ. A ...

Understanding Design Thinking: A Process Model based on Method Engineering

Thoring, Katja; Müller, Roland M // 2011
This article presents a formal model of the design thinking process based on Method Engineering. The foundation of our work is based on observations within an educational context - the 'School of ...

UNDERSTANDING FIXATION: A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF EXPERTISE

Viswanathan, Vimal; Linsey, Julie // 2011
Engineering idea generation plays a vital role in developing new products. Recent research has focused on methods to make designers more innovative and creative. Design fixation imposes a major ...

Understanding the 2.5th Dimension: Modelling the Graphic Language of Products

Mulder-Nijkamp, Maaike; Eggink, Wouter // 2011
Recognising a product of a specific brand without seeing the logo is difficult. But for companies it is important to distinguish themselves from competitors with a consistent portfolio, which will ...

A Comparative Evaluation of Aptitude in Problem Solving in Engineering Education

de Vere, Ian; Kuys, Blair; Melles, Gavin // 2010
Engineering education has been criticised for focusing solely on the science of engineering, to the detriment of preparing students for the practice of engineering. Graduates are considered by many ...

A multidisciplinary framework for (teaching) Human Product Relations

Eggink, Wouter; van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke // 2010
In this paper we introduce a framework for dealing with the complexity of human-product relationships. The actual framework is a matrix of design perspectives, with three cooperating disciplines on ...

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 ...

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  • +design +community
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  • +design community
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  • +design -community
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  • +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)
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  • design*
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  • "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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