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Proposal for a new usability index for product design teams and the general public
Brandy, Anthony; Mantelet, Fabrice; Aoussat, Améziane; Pigot, Pierre-Vincent // 2017
Usability is a key notion in most of products, especially for the medical devices. Nevertheless, sometimes this notion can be shelved in favour of other priorities such as reliability of the product. ...
RELATING TO THE INDIVIDUAL'S LEVEL OF CONSUMPTION - AN INDICATOR OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
Řvrebekk, Nikolai; Skjerven, Astrid // 2017
Today’s talk of sustainability is difficult to understand for the general public, designers and decision makers in industry and the public sector. CO2 equivalence is one of the most important ways to ...
Show me the pictures: The effect of representational modalities on abductive reasoning in decision making
Arntz, Sarah; Verbaan, Ruben; Eisenbart, Boris; Cardoso, Carlos // 2017
This paper describes a study designed to investigate the effect of concept representation types on the use of abductive reasoning by decision makers when selecting early stage innovation concepts for ...
Structure sharing for resource effective solutions: Improving measures to account for importance and quality of functions
Ghazanfari, Ehsan; Singh, Vishal // 2017
Structured sharing is believed to improve resource effectiveness of design solutions by allowing multiple functions to be achieved from the same shared structure. The current measures for assessing ...
Support management of product families and the corresponding automation systems – A method to capture and share design rationale
Poorkiany, Morteza; Johansson, Joel; Elgh, Fredrik // 2017
The ability to innovate and launch customized products that are well matched to customer demands is a competitive factor for many manufacturing companies. Development of highly customized products ...
Supporting development teams in the early stages of product development through DfX-based knowledge management system and communication platform
Ugurlu, Sinan; Gerhard, Detlef // 2017
In the product development, many aspects such as usability, safety, ergonomics, and recycling have to be taken into account. Development companies are required to make more robust and accurate ...
Systematic approach to optimize cost drivers based on life cycle cost modeling
Johannknecht, Florian; Gatzen, Matthias; Lachmayer, Roland // 2017
Optimizing cost drivers is one of the key success factors within product development. Approaches to develop cost-efficient products are deeply rooted in standard design methodology. However, in most ...
The development of a novel standardisation-customisation continuum
Heredia Jiménez, Juan Antonio; Whitfield, Robert Ian; Ward, Michael; Grierson, Hilary // 2017
Published work on product-oriented customisation lacks clarity in establishing how it is characterised, how it is bounded, and how one would define increasing levels of customisation. This paper ...
THE ROLE OF CO-OWNERSHIP WITHIN PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION
Verthé, Becky; De Couvreur, Lieven // 2017
Teaching product design is a complex activity, which deals with fast changing technology, emerging markets and unpredictable user-needs. During a design education program young designers appropriate ...
Towards Agile Product Development - The Role of Prototyping
Böhmer, Annette Isabel; Hostettler, Rafael; Richter, Christoph; Lindemann, Udo; Conradt, Jörg; Knoll, Alois // 2017
The complexity in all products and processes increases and the need for operative agility is seen as a key factor of success (Link and Lewirck, 2014). Agile approaches are extremely beneficial for ...
Towards an assessment of resilience in telecom infrastructure projects using real options
Mak, Jonathan; Cassidy, Steve; Clarkson, P. John // 2017
This paper employs the concept of real options to quantitatively assess resilience. First, the definitions of resilience are distilled from literature in the fields of engineering, management and ...
Towards an impact model of modular product structures
Hackl, Jennifer; Krause, Dieter // 2017
Modularization of product families affects firms in many ways. Many of them have been investigated in research and observed in industry. But which effect will most likely occur, by which kind of ...
Underlying design motivations in design methods and outcomes
Turner, Cameron; Agyemang, Malena // 2017
Design teams approach design problems with a set of explicit requirements derived from the problem, but also bring a number of implicit design requirements to the problem through the culture within ...
UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN THE TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CURRICULUM: EXPERIENCES FROM NORWAY
Sandnes, Frode Eika; Eika, Evelyn // 2017
In recent decades the engineering and technology education curriculum has changed from being purely technical oriented towards being more socially aware. In addition, to adequately master ...
User-driven segmentation of design data
Maynard, Alex; Burnap, Alexander; Papalambros, Panos // 2017
Design data is used to inform decisions during the design process, and must often be segmented for tasks such as customer segmentation, design benchmarking, and market preference segmentation. ...
Using clustering algorithms to identify subproblems in design processes
Morency, Michael; Anparasan, Azrah; Herrmann, Jeffrey; Gralla, Erica // 2017
Designers work in teams to design complex systems. They separate the design problem into subproblems and solve the smaller, more manageable subproblems. Because this affects the overall quality of ...
Using embedded design structures to unravel a complex decision in a product development system
McKay, Alison; Sammonds, George ; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema; Irnazarow, Aleksandra; Robinson, Mark // 2017
Early design decisions have an impact on downstream product development processes. Poor decisions can reduce efficiency and effectiveness, and have a detrimental effect on product quality, delivery ...
Using the ACDł-ladder to manage multi-phase requirements on end-user products
Berlin, Cecilia; Bligĺrd, Lars-Ola; Simonsen, Eva // 2017
During the development of any end-user product, a multitude of design decisions need to be made. But if design activities and decisions happen at the wrong time, or not at all, unintentional and ...
Using TRLs and system architecture to estimate technology integration risk
Garg, Tushar; Eppinger, Steven; Joglekar, Nitin; Olechowski, Alison // 2017
Risk estimation is a key activity for product development and technology integration programs. There are a number of decision support tools that help project managers identify and mitigate risks in a ...
Value-driven engineering design: Lessons learned from the road construction equipment industry
Bertoni, Marco; Panarotto, Massimo; Jonsson, Pontus // 2017
Value models, in form of economical optimization functions, are often proposed to frontload engineering design activities. However, literature argues that, when qualitative data and assumptions ...
Why choose one sustainable design strategy over another: A decision-support prototype
Gould, Rachael; Lagun Mesquita, Patricia; Bratt, Cecilia; Broman, Göran // 2017
Sustainable design strategies provide tangible ways for integrating sustainability into early phase product design work. Examples include design for remanufacturing and design for the base of the ...
A BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS FOR IDECIDE – HOW TO DESIGN A NEW DECISION MAKING APP?
Luft, T.; Lamé, G.; Ponn, J.; Stal-Le Cardinal, J.; Wartzack, S. // 2016
As products become increasingly complex, product developers have to make decisions effectively and efficiently. Therefore, the long term goal of the SIG DM is to develop an iDecide App. This app ...
A Case Study in the Application of Design Structure Matrix for Improvement of Policy Formulation in Complex Industrial Wastewater Treatment
Buzuku, Shqipe; Kraslawski, Andrzej; Kässi, Tuomo // 2016
Designing effective and acceptable policy is a non-trivial task for decision makers and stakeholders. Especially, policy formulation related to environmental management is still a serious challenge. ...
A LENS ON FUTURE PRODUCTS: AN EXPANDED NOTION OF PROTOTYPING PRACTICE
Camere, S.; Bordegoni, M. // 2016
Designers engage with prototyping already at the early phases of design process, implying a variety of techniques and with diversity of scopes. The classic definition of prototyping is currently ...
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.