A study of obstacles to idea development in product design

Autor: Hung-Shin-Min, 洪士閔
Rok vydání: 2011
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 99
This study analyzes and summarize published research on design concept, try to find solutions to idea development in product design. The study defines what “product design concept” really means by past papers, and analyzes the factors such as “design process” or “design concept”. Next, it finds out how designer made creative ideas, and how they made those ideas come true. Finally it discovers what obstruct designers create design concept. This study explain all kinds of factors on design concept. The research process of this study was adopted with grounded theory. Through the deep interview with professional designer, this study collect many experiences of design work, and find out why the obstructs of design thinking bring, and how designers overcome those obstacles to design. The research could as a reference to design education, and made industrial designers development product idea more effective. By the results of the research, the most important factors with design concept, was exist designer and design process from design target to product ideas. There are three other factors that affect design concept. The factors are environment, leader, personal background of designer. The conclusions of the study are as below: 1. The solutions to obstacles of design target: communicate, user evaluate, customer or leader judge. 2. The solutions to obstacles of information gain and transform: stop and wait, find some new way, ask the expert, get information from another field. 3. The solutions to obstacles of working proposed: get away from question, asking help, define user requirements, develop user circumstance. 4. The solutions to obstacles of production: early research, test design and verify, schedule control, cost down. 5. The solutions to obstacles of designer working : zeal, sense of accomplishment, different life experience, not give up to think.
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