Success in fast cycle industries (e.g. consumer electronics) can depend both on rapid model replacement and on model longevity. Although Sony was as fast as any of its chief competitors in getting new models to market, an important explanation for the wide variety of models offered by the firm is the greater longevity of its key models. This finding adds an important insight to the conventional...

We need to rethink how we assist designers with artificial intelligence (AI). AI should aim cooperate, not automate, by supporting and leveraging the creativity problem-solving capabilities of designers. The challenge for such is infer designers' goals then help them without being needlessly disruptive. introduce AI-assisted design, a new framework creating AI, built around generative user mode...

Historically, business process design has been driven by business objectives, specifically process improvement. However this cannot come at the price of control objectives which stem from various legislative, standard and business partnership sources. Ensuring the compliance to regulations and industrial standards is an increasingly important issue in the design of business processes. In this p...

a design discharge is an important issue in the design process of pressurized irrigation networks. underestimating the desing discharge affect, the required pressure and offtake discharge, increase the cost of the network. because of the lack of a standard and reliable method for this propuse, usually different approches are used by designers. the network fails to provide the required flow rate...

The usability of the user interface is a key aspect for the success of several industrial products. This assumption has led to the introduction of numerous design methodologies addressed to evaluate the user-friendliness of industrial products. Most of these methodologies follow the participatory design approach to involve the user in the design process. Virtual Reality is a valid tool to suppo...

As new products and systems grow in complexity and embed new technologies, designers face new challenges for adequately pursuing their prototyping activities. Tangible User Interface toolkits provide an easier development environment for rapidly exploring and prototyping functional physical interactive devices. Such toolkits range from friendly toy-like building blocks to advanced wireless micr...

This paper introduces the notion of “tangible business model sketches” – interactive sculpture-like mechanisms – to stimulate discussions concerning how businesses create and capture value. We outline the need for opening up discussions around innovation that these models address and their proposed utility for designers. We present three examples that model aspects of lighting design, audiology...

The global energy shortage has revived the interest in hydroelectric power, but extreme geological condition always pose challenges to the construction of hydroelectric power stations with large underground caverns. To solve the problem of safe design of large underground caverns, a Chinese-style intelligent stability design, representing recent developments in Chinese techniques for the constr...