Exploration through Drawings in the Conceptual Stage of Product Design
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This paper argues that sequences of exploratory drawings constructed by designer’s movements and decisions trace systematic and logical paths from ideas to designs. This argument has three parts. First, sequences of exploratory sketches produced by product designers, against the same task specification, are analyzed in terms of the cognitive categories of reinterpretation, emergence and abstraction. Second, a computational model is outlined for the process of exploration through drawing and third the model is applied to elucidate the logic in the sequences of exploratory sketches examined earlier.
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Exploration through drawings in the conceptual stages of product design
This paper argues that sequences of exploratory drawings constructed by designer’s movements and decisions trace systematic and logical paths from ideas to designs. This argument has three parts. First, sequences of exploratory sketches produced by product designers, against the same task specification, are analyzed in terms of the cognitive categories of reinterpretation, emergence and abstrac...
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