Early Phase Concept Evaluation
Year: 2010
Editor: Andreas Dagman; Rikard Söderberg
Author: Vanhatalao, Mikko; Pakkanen, Jarkko; Lehtonen, Timo; Riitahuhta, Asko; Juuti, Tero
Section: Conceptualization and Innovation
Page(s): 311-322
Abstract
Designer has to do crucial decisions at fairly early design phase. Thus there is a need a tool for the evaluation of a concept. We present a tool for concept evaluation at the point where the design is still fairly open, but there exists a coarse idea of the future product. The tool consist properties of the concept, production network, and business environment. The principle is that by visualising the relations between the chosen and/or existing relations the designer can easily see if the choices made are good or not.
Keywords: Conceptualisation, Concept evaluation, Concept properties, Production network, Order-delivery process