Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design
Gathering user feedback on provisional design concepts early in the design process has the potential to reduce time-to-market and create more satisfying products. Among the parameters that shape user response to a product, this paper investigates how design experts use sketches, physical prototypes,...
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| author | Haeggman, Anders K Tsai, Geoff Elsen, Catherine Honda, Tomonori Yang, Maria |
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| description | Gathering user feedback on provisional design concepts early in the design process has the potential to reduce time-to-market and create more satisfying products. Among the parameters that shape user response to a product, this paper investigates how design experts use sketches, physical prototypes, and computer-aided design (CAD) to generate and represent ideas, as well as how these tools are linked to design attributes and multiple measures of design quality. Eighteen expert designers individually addressed a 2 hr design task using only sketches, foam prototypes, or CAD. It was found that prototyped designs were generated more quickly than those created using sketches or CAD. Analysis of 406 crowdsourced responses to the resulting designs showed that those created as prototypes were perceived as more novel, more aesthetically pleasing, and more comfortable to use. It was also found that designs perceived as more novel tended to fare poorly on all other measured qualities. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1083502022-09-29T11:40:06Z Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design Haeggman, Anders K Tsai, Geoff Elsen, Catherine Honda, Tomonori Yang, Maria Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Haeggman, Anders K Tsai, Geoff Elsen, Catherine Honda, Tomonori Yang, Maria Gathering user feedback on provisional design concepts early in the design process has the potential to reduce time-to-market and create more satisfying products. Among the parameters that shape user response to a product, this paper investigates how design experts use sketches, physical prototypes, and computer-aided design (CAD) to generate and represent ideas, as well as how these tools are linked to design attributes and multiple measures of design quality. Eighteen expert designers individually addressed a 2 hr design task using only sketches, foam prototypes, or CAD. It was found that prototyped designs were generated more quickly than those created using sketches or CAD. Analysis of 406 crowdsourced responses to the resulting designs showed that those created as prototypes were perceived as more novel, more aesthetically pleasing, and more comfortable to use. It was also found that designs perceived as more novel tended to fare poorly on all other measured qualities. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (CMMI-1130791) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (CMMI-1334267) 2017-04-21T17:39:35Z 2017-04-21T17:39:35Z 2015-05 2015-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1050-0472 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108350 Häggman, Anders; Tsai, Geoff; Elsen, Catherine; Honda, Tomonori and Yang, Maria C. “Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design.” Journal of Mechanical Design 137, no. 7 (May 19, 2015): 071101. © 2015 ASME International https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9930-2564 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9494-5731 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2434-0451 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2365-1378 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-3423 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4030181 Journal of Mechanical Design Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf ASME International American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| spellingShingle | Haeggman, Anders K Tsai, Geoff Elsen, Catherine Honda, Tomonori Yang, Maria Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design |
| title | Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design |
| title_full | Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design |
| title_fullStr | Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design |
| title_full_unstemmed | Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design |
| title_short | Connections Between the Design Tool, Design Attributes, and User Preferences in Early Stage Design |
| title_sort | connections between the design tool design attributes and user preferences in early stage design |
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