Exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers: an international and global perspective
A multitude of design guidelines that are intended to support design engineers with knowledge and information during the embodiment design of physical products have been developed back in the 1980s and 1990s. However, since then, the setting in which products are developed and designed has changed a...
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| description | A multitude of design guidelines that are intended to support design engineers with knowledge and information during the embodiment design of physical products have been developed back in the 1980s and 1990s. However, since then, the setting in which products are developed and designed has changed and associated tasks and activities are carried out globally rather than locally. Yet, knowledge on the benefit of such design guidelines and their impact on the performance of multinational design engineers from different regions and with different levels of experience is still lacking. To address this, a mobile eye tracking study has been developed and carried out with 47 differently experienced practitioners from Germany, Eastern Europe and Asia. The results show differences in how design engineers from different regions with different levels of experience may benefit from design guidelines and how design guidelines may impact experts’ and novices’ performance, indicate beneficial ways of using them and point out the kind of information and the way of representation that attracts the most attention within a design guideline. The paper concludes that the improvement and development of design guidelines that are intended to support the embodiment design of physical products is needed and proposes to rethink current engineering design guidelines both content-wise and representation-wise. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bd79a1b22a3a49c0b5c519cceff799aa2023-03-09T12:32:02ZengCambridge University PressDesign Science2053-47012020-01-01610.1017/dsj.2020.3Exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers: an international and global perspectiveBenedikt Reimlinger0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9852-4408Quentin Lohmeyer1Ralf Moryson2Mirko Meboldt3Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Robert Bosch Power Tools GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, GermanyDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Robert Bosch Power Tools GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, GermanyDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandA multitude of design guidelines that are intended to support design engineers with knowledge and information during the embodiment design of physical products have been developed back in the 1980s and 1990s. However, since then, the setting in which products are developed and designed has changed and associated tasks and activities are carried out globally rather than locally. Yet, knowledge on the benefit of such design guidelines and their impact on the performance of multinational design engineers from different regions and with different levels of experience is still lacking. To address this, a mobile eye tracking study has been developed and carried out with 47 differently experienced practitioners from Germany, Eastern Europe and Asia. The results show differences in how design engineers from different regions with different levels of experience may benefit from design guidelines and how design guidelines may impact experts’ and novices’ performance, indicate beneficial ways of using them and point out the kind of information and the way of representation that attracts the most attention within a design guideline. The paper concludes that the improvement and development of design guidelines that are intended to support the embodiment design of physical products is needed and proposes to rethink current engineering design guidelines both content-wise and representation-wise.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2053470120000037/type/journal_articledesign guidelinedesign knowledgedesign studiesengineering design |
| spellingShingle | Benedikt Reimlinger Quentin Lohmeyer Ralf Moryson Mirko Meboldt Exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers: an international and global perspective Design Science design guideline design knowledge design studies engineering design |
| title | Exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers: an international and global perspective |
| title_full | Exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers: an international and global perspective |
| title_fullStr | Exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers: an international and global perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers: an international and global perspective |
| title_short | Exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers: an international and global perspective |
| title_sort | exploring how design guidelines benefit design engineers an international and global perspective |
| topic | design guideline design knowledge design studies engineering design |
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