How It Is Made Matters: Distinguishing Traits of Designs Created by Sketches, Prototypes, and CAD
In the early stages of design, designers may use a variety of tools to represent their ideas, including sketches, physical prototypes, and digital models. Prior research suggests that the choice of tool and design representation can influence user opinions of the concept. In this paper, we explore h...
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| description | In the early stages of design, designers may use a variety of tools to represent their ideas, including sketches, physical prototypes, and digital models. Prior research suggests that the choice of tool and design representation can influence user opinions of the concept. In this paper, we explore how aware designers and users are of the ways different design tools can influence a design. Specifically, we investigate the question "How is a design influenced by the tool used to create it?" Designs that had originally been created as either a sketch, foam prototype, or CAD model were sketched into a consistent visual style. Designers experienced with these tools exhibited a better-Than-random likelihood of identifying the original tool used to create the design, despite viewing only the re-sketch. This suggests artifacts of a design tool persist in a design representation despite the design being translated from one medium to another. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1200452022-09-29T12:36:51Z How It Is Made Matters: Distinguishing Traits of Designs Created by Sketches, Prototypes, and CAD Tsai, Geoff Yang, Maria C. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Tsai, Geoff Yang, Maria In the early stages of design, designers may use a variety of tools to represent their ideas, including sketches, physical prototypes, and digital models. Prior research suggests that the choice of tool and design representation can influence user opinions of the concept. In this paper, we explore how aware designers and users are of the ways different design tools can influence a design. Specifically, we investigate the question "How is a design influenced by the tool used to create it?" Designs that had originally been created as either a sketch, foam prototype, or CAD model were sketched into a consistent visual style. Designers experienced with these tools exhibited a better-Than-random likelihood of identifying the original tool used to create the design, despite viewing only the re-sketch. This suggests artifacts of a design tool persist in a design representation despite the design being translated from one medium to another. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (award CMMI-1334267) SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC) 2019-01-15T14:36:04Z 2019-01-15T14:36:04Z 2017-08 2019-01-14T19:57:37Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-0-7918-5821-9 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120045 Tsai, Geoff, and Maria C. Yang. “How It Is Made Matters: Distinguishing Traits of Designs Created by Sketches, Prototypes, and CAD.” Volume 7: 29th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (August 6, 2017). https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9494-5731 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7776-3423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/DETC2017-68403 Volume 7: 29th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology 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 ASME |
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| title | How It Is Made Matters: Distinguishing Traits of Designs Created by Sketches, Prototypes, and CAD |
| title_full | How It Is Made Matters: Distinguishing Traits of Designs Created by Sketches, Prototypes, and CAD |
| title_fullStr | How It Is Made Matters: Distinguishing Traits of Designs Created by Sketches, Prototypes, and CAD |
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| title_short | How It Is Made Matters: Distinguishing Traits of Designs Created by Sketches, Prototypes, and CAD |
| title_sort | how it is made matters distinguishing traits of designs created by sketches prototypes and cad |
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