On How Designers Communicate the Functionality of Articulated Product Concepts in Sketches
DS 101: Proceedings of NordDesign 2020, Lyngby, Denmark, 12th - 14th August 2020
Year: 2020
Editor: Mortensen, N.H.; Hansen, C.T. and Deininger, M.
Author: Ramana, G Kalyan; Onkar, Prasad S
Series: NordDESIGN
Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Section: Design Studies
Page(s): 12
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.35199/NORDDESIGN2020.41
ISBN: 9781912254088
Abstract
This work deals with finding out issues faced by designers in communicating functionality of articulated product concepts through sketching. These have been observed and analyzed by performing a design experiment. It is found that the effort involved in communicating the functionality of the concept represented in sketches is significant and concluded that it needs to be reduced. Future work is also highlighted.
Keywords: product design, functional modelling, research methodologies and methods