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Decision design and re-ordering preferences: The case of an exploration project in a large firm
Le Glatin, Mario; Le Masson, Pascal; Weil, Benoît // 2017
Decision theory has been long applied to project management for risk and uncertainty reduction. Among the foundations, the manager is considered following axioms describing his rationality; the most ...
DECISION MAKING IN PRODUCT DESIGN – BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN INCEPTION AND REALITY
Lindley, Julian; Adams, Richard; Wynn, Les // 2017
Product Design in the modern world is a complex multifaceted discipline comprising of many skills and applications. It also operates in cross-disciplinary contexts both in direct teams but also ...
Definition and support of differentiation and integration in mechanical structure using S-curve theory and wavelet transform
Ishii, Takahiro; Parque, Victor; Miura, Satoshi; Miyashita, Tomoyuki // 2017
The differentiation and the integration of products are the essential procedures for product innovation. To understand the product innovation, the approaches using S-curve theory, which explain the ...
Design analytics is the answer, but what questions would product developers like to have answered?
Arnarsson, Ívar Örn; Gustavsson, Emil; Malmqvist, Johan; Jirstrand, Mats // 2017
There is a growing need for data expertise and data analysis. Companies are looking more towards analytics for improvement opportunities within the business and products. Data collection is growing ...
Design for complex product rebirth or how to protect resources
Mascle, Christian // 2017
This paper presents research conducted on a new design method for rebirth of complex products. Design for rebirth is a thinking method for protecting resources. Reuse, remanufacturing, upgrading and ...
Design for micro-enterprise: a field study of user preference behavior
Austin-Breneman, Jesse; Yang, Maria // 2017
Product development serving the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) is an increasing part of many organizations’ growth strategies, from social enterprises to large multi-national companies. In response to ...
Design prototyping of systems
Camburn, Bradley Adam; Arlitt, Ryan; Perez, K. Blake; Anderson, David; Choo, Pui Kun; Lim, Terry; Gilmour, Adam; Wood, Kristin // 2017
In recent years, groundbreaking work in design science has identified that prototyping is one of the most critical factors leading to successful development. Many decisions regarding the detail of a ...
Design space visualization for efficiency in knowledge discovery leading to an informed decision
Abi Akle, Audrey; Yannou, Bernard; Minel, Stéphanie // 2017
Design space exploration refers to the systematic activity of discovery and evaluation of the elements in the design space in order to identify optimal solution by reducing the design space toward an ...
Development of a knowledge-based system for help in decision making: A medical application
Coton, Justine; Thomann, Guillaume; Villeneuve, François // 2017
A part of the work of a physiotherapist consists on analysing its patients’ motion capacities. In the case of motion analysis, some difficulties can hinder the evaluation process: attention can be ...
Directives to support the design of changeable (I)PSS
Pessôa, Marcus Vinicius Pereira; Becker, Juan Manuel Jauregui // 2017
Product service models (PSM) benefits are not limited to its providers and costumers, but the whole society might also take advantage from its sustainability impact. Achieving these benefits, though, ...
Dynamic modelling of relationships in complex service design systems
Hassannezhad, Mohammad; Cassidy, Steve; Clarkson, P. John // 2017
Today’s market conditions such as globalisation and digitalisation have made it challenging to design an effective service system that can efficiently balance organisational service capacity and ...
Employing design representations for user-feedback in the product design lifecycle
Ray, Samantak; Choi, Young Mi // 2017
The product design lifecycle is dependent on user-feedback to deploy products with the highest rate of market success. User-feedback informs a product design to cater to the needs of the consumer. ...
Engineering of assembly systems using graph-based design languages
Breckle, Theresa; Kiefer, Jens; Rudolph, Stephan; Manns, Martin // 2017
Car Manufacturers are subject to continuous and fundamental changes. Already today increasing time pressure, rising complexity and a soaring cost pressure require a shorter time to market. As ...
Enhancing the balancing while synthesizing-process - a method development project
Noubarpour, Dennis // 2017
There exist many different product and concept development methods. Many of these do not target the performance and cost-balance between sub-solutions in a concept. The management of properties ...
Entscheidungsheuristiken in der PGE - Produktgenerationsentwicklung (Members only )
Nikola, Bursac; Simon, Rapp; Albert, Albers; Jan, Breitschuh; Narucha, Tanaiutchawoot // 2017
Product development always includes the selection of ideas from a set of potential ideas and thus pointing the way for the subsequent process. Doing this intuitively always implies the risk of not ...
Evaluation and management of customer feedback to include market dynamics into product development: Satisfaction Importance Evaluation (SIE) model
Gupta, Ravi Kumar; Belkadi, Farouk; Bernard, Alain // 2017
Customer’s requirements fluctuate across geographical regions and type of use context for a product. In order to address dynamic market’s needs, it is important to maintain an open communication ...
Exploring human behaviour in design education: Supporting sustainable decision-making with a tabletop activity
Willis, Amanda; Wise, Alyssa; Antle, Alissa // 2017
This paper explores the behaviour of learners engaging with a sustainable tabletop activity. Fitting with the theme of Resource-Sensitive Design, this paper takes the viewpoint that the early ...
Extending system design tools to incorporate user- and contextual elements in developing future products and services
Liem, André // 2017
This article aims to extend systems thinking to include user-, and contextual elements. Such extension should be angled towards increased human intervention and multiple stakeholder involvement in ...
From customer experience to product design: Reasons to introduce a holistic design approach
Ceccacci, Silvia; Giraldi, Luca; Mengoni, Maura // 2017
In the recent years, the creation of a good Customer Experience has become one of means to help companies in competing in the arena of retail. This have led to a focus shift from product design to ...
From privacy by design to design for privacy
Rostama, Guilda; Bekhradi, Alexandre; Yannou, Bernard // 2017
Privacy by design is a method that places in the early stages of the design and decision-making process the user's privacy and the protection of his/her personal data as a basic principle. In 2018, ...
Fundamental challenges in developing Internet of Things applications for engineers and product designers
Heinis, Timon; Gomes Martinho, Carlos; Meboldt, Mirko // 2017
Decreasing cost for computing power, connectivity and electronics arouse potential for a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) applications but the development of value-adding IoT applications evolves ...
FUTURE SCENARIOS IN GENERAL DESIGN EDUCATION AND 21ST CENTURY COMPETENCIES
Ringvold, Tore Andre; Digranes, Ingvild // 2017
The latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century has seen societies changing in a more rapid speed, and what is seen as important competencies have changed. There is an ...
Gathering and analysing external influences on the product design - a case study
Kammerl, Daniel; Echle, Stefan; Mörtl, Markus // 2017
The early phase of each development process is characterised by severe decisions under great uncertainty. To facilitate these decisions, it is crucial to know the (external) influences on the product ...
Good product line architecture design principles
Mortensen, Niels Henrik; Løkkegaard, Martin // 2017
Based on existing research concerning product architectures Du et al. (2001), Ericsson and Erixon (1999), Levandowski et al.(2014), Bruun et al. (2015) and studies of more than 200 product ...
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.