Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelines
Prototyping is interwoven with nearly all product, service, and systems development efforts. A prototype is a pre-production representation of some aspect of a concept or final design. Prototyping often predetermines a large portion of resource deployment in development and influences design project...
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| author | Bradley Camburn Vimal Viswanathan Julie Linsey David Anderson Daniel Jensen Richard Crawford Kevin Otto Kristin Wood |
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| description | Prototyping is interwoven with nearly all product, service, and systems development efforts. A prototype is a pre-production representation of some aspect of a concept or final design. Prototyping often predetermines a large portion of resource deployment in development and influences design project success. This review surveys literature sources in engineering, management, design science, and architecture. The study is focused around design prototyping for early stage design. Insights are synthesized from critical review of the literature: key objectives of prototyping, critical review of major techniques, relationships between techniques, and a strategy matrix to connect objectives to techniques. The review is supported with exemplar prototypes provided from industrial design efforts. Techniques are roughly categorized into those that improve the outcomes of prototyping directly, and those that enable prototyping through lowering of cost and time. Compact descriptions of each technique provide a foundation to compare the potential benefits and drawbacks of each. The review concludes with a summary of key observations, highlighted opportunities in the research, and a vision of the future of prototyping. This review aims to provide a resource for designers as well as set a trajectory for continuing innovation in the scientific research of design prototyping. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7933fe348d664603b25c2bd0b93c649f2023-03-09T12:31:57ZengCambridge University PressDesign Science2053-47012017-01-01310.1017/dsj.2017.10Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelinesBradley Camburn0Vimal Viswanathan1Julie Linsey2David Anderson3Daniel Jensen4Richard Crawford5Kevin Otto6Kristin Wood7Singapore University of Technology and Design, International Design Centre, SingaporeSan Jose State University, Mechanical Engieering, San Jose, CA, 95192, USAGeorgia Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, GA 30332, USASingapore University of Technology and Design, International Design Centre, SingaporeUnited States Air Force Academy, Engineering Mechanics, CO, USAThe University of Texas At Austin, Mechanical Engineering, TX, 78712, USAAalto University, Espoo, 02150, FinlandSingapore University of Technology and Design, International Design Centre, SingaporePrototyping is interwoven with nearly all product, service, and systems development efforts. A prototype is a pre-production representation of some aspect of a concept or final design. Prototyping often predetermines a large portion of resource deployment in development and influences design project success. This review surveys literature sources in engineering, management, design science, and architecture. The study is focused around design prototyping for early stage design. Insights are synthesized from critical review of the literature: key objectives of prototyping, critical review of major techniques, relationships between techniques, and a strategy matrix to connect objectives to techniques. The review is supported with exemplar prototypes provided from industrial design efforts. Techniques are roughly categorized into those that improve the outcomes of prototyping directly, and those that enable prototyping through lowering of cost and time. Compact descriptions of each technique provide a foundation to compare the potential benefits and drawbacks of each. The review concludes with a summary of key observations, highlighted opportunities in the research, and a vision of the future of prototyping. This review aims to provide a resource for designers as well as set a trajectory for continuing innovation in the scientific research of design prototyping.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2053470117000105/type/journal_articledesign prototypingproductservicesystemsmethods |
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| title | Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelines |
| title_full | Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelines |
| title_fullStr | Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelines |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelines |
| title_short | Design prototyping methods: state of the art in strategies, techniques, and guidelines |
| title_sort | design prototyping methods state of the art in strategies techniques and guidelines |
| topic | design prototyping product service systems methods |
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