Advances in Industrial Design Engineering

250 Pages·2013·18.755 MB·English

by  Denis A. Coelho

ADVANCES IN
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
ENGINEERING
Edited by Denis A. Coelho
Advances in Industrial Design Engineering
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/3415
Edited by Denis A. Coelho
Contributors
Denis Coelho, Carlos Versos, Helena Navas, Chun-Fong You, Hao Jiang, Ching-Chiuan Yen, Kristel Dewulf, Inalda
Rodrigues, Sónia Fernandes, Carlos A. M. Duarte, Isah Bolaji Kashim, Lau Langeveld, Reinier Jansen, Rene Van Egmond,
Elif OZcan, Tom Cassidy
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Contents
Preface VII
Section 1 Design Process Innovation 1
Chapter 1 A Bi-Directional Method for Bionic Design with Examples 3
Carlos A. M. Versos and Denis A. Coelho
Chapter 2 Design Thinking in Conceptual Design Processes: A Comparison
Between Industrial and Engineering Design Students 29
Hao Jiang and Ching-Chiuan Yen
Chapter 3 Product Sound Design: Intentional and
Consequential Sounds 47
Lau Langeveld, René van Egmond, Reinier Jansen and Elif Özcan
Chapter 4 TRIZ: Design Problem Solving with Systematic Innovation 75
Helena V. G. Navas
Section 2 Industrial Design Perspectives 99
Chapter 5 The Design of Product Instructions 101
Dian Li, Tom Cassidy and David Bromilow
Chapter 6 Measuring Design Simplicity 115
Carlos A.M. Duarte
Section 3 Sustainability 137
Chapter 7 Sustainable Product Innovation: The Importance of the Front-
End Stage in the Innovation Process 139
Kristel Dewulf
VI Contents
Chapter 8 Toy Design Methods: A Sustainability Perspective 167
Denis A. Coelho and Sónia A. Fernandes
Section 4 Case Studies 185
Chapter 9 Design for Automotive Panels Supported by an
Expert System 187
Chun-Fong You, Chin-Ren Jeng and Kun-Yu Liu
Chapter 10 Early Stages of Industrial Design Careers 211
Inalda A. L. L. M. Rodrigues and Denis A. Coelho
Chapter 11 Visual and Material Culture in the Context of Industrial Design:
The Contemporary Nigerian Experience 223
I.B. Kashim
Preface
A fast paced changing world requires dynamic methods and robust theories to enable designers to
deal with the changing product development landscape successfully and hence make a difference in
an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world. Designers continue stretching the boun‐
daries of their discipline, and trail new paths in interdisciplinary domains, constantly moving the
frontiers of their practice farther ahead. This book, following Industrial Design – New Frontiers,
also published by InTech, develops the concepts present in the previous book further, as well as
reaching new areas of theory and practice in industrial design and in industrial design engineering.
The eleven chapters in this book report on the novel frontiers of the current era of industrial de‐
sign, in some cases going over those frontiers to look at how neighbouring disciplines tackle
shared problems. Design process innovation, industrial design perspectives and sustainability are
the overarching themes of each of the first three parts of the book, while the last part contains a
set of three case studies.
The first part of the book, focusing on innovations in the design process, looks at bionic design as
a two-way approach, at design thinking in conceptual approaches, at product sound design and
at the theory of inventive problem solving. The design of product instructions and simplicity in
design are the two industrial design perspectives covered in the second part. The topic of sustain‐
ability is the major theme of the third part of the book, focusing on the sustainability of product
innovation and providing a sustainability perspective on toy design methods. A set of case stud‐
ies makes up the fourth and last part of this book. These include the domain of automotive de‐
sign, professional initiation and visual and material culture.
The encompassing contents and the diversity of the chapters is bound to entice readers and help
them reach new insights on how to advance both their practice and their research on the domain
of product design for industrial manufacture and industrial design in general. The book is struc‐
tured and written so that a layperson, or a student, may quickly grasp the contours of the domain
and decide whether to go deeper in one particular subject or application domain. Whatever the
initial stance of the reader, we hope that this book may be of value in advancing the understand‐
ing of some of the most prominent of the current challenges in this fascinating field.
Professor Denis A. Coelho
Human Technology Group (Director)
Masters Program in Industrial Design Engineering (Coordinator)
Product Development and Prototyping Laboratory (Head)
Dept. Electromechanical Engineering,
University of Beira Interior,
Covilhã, Portugal

Section 1
Design Process Innovation