Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects
Sketching and prototyping of design concepts have long been valued as tools to support productive early stage design. This study investigates previous findings about the interplay between the use and timing of use of such design tools. This study evaluates such tools in the context of team design pr...
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| author | Elsen, Catherine Häggman, Anders Honda, Tomonori Yang, Maria C. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
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| description | Sketching and prototyping of design concepts have long been valued as tools to support productive early stage design. This study investigates previous findings about the interplay between the use and timing of use of such design tools. This study evaluates such tools in the context of team design projects. General trends and statistically significant results about " sketchstorming" and prototyping suggest that, in certain constrained contexts, the focus should be on the quality of information rather than on the quantity of information generated, and that prototyping should begin as soon as possible during the design process. Ramifications of these findings are discussed in the context of educating future designers on the efficient use of design tools. ©2012 Paper presented at the 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Aug. 12-15, 2012, Chicago, Ill. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1249792022-09-30T15:40:08Z Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects Elsen, Catherine Häggman, Anders Honda, Tomonori Yang, Maria C. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Sketching and prototyping of design concepts have long been valued as tools to support productive early stage design. This study investigates previous findings about the interplay between the use and timing of use of such design tools. This study evaluates such tools in the context of team design projects. General trends and statistically significant results about " sketchstorming" and prototyping suggest that, in certain constrained contexts, the focus should be on the quality of information rather than on the quantity of information generated, and that prototyping should begin as soon as possible during the design process. Ramifications of these findings are discussed in the context of educating future designers on the efficient use of design tools. ©2012 Paper presented at the 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Aug. 12-15, 2012, Chicago, Ill. National Science Foundation (grant no. CMMI1130791) National Science Foundation (grant no. CMMI- 0830134) 2020-05-01T18:41:39Z 2020-05-01T18:41:39Z 2012 2019-01-11T20:12:53Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-0-7918-4506-6 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124979 Elsen, Catherine, Anders Häggman, Tomonori Honda, and Maria C. Yang, "Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects." Proceedings of the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2012), v. 7 (New York, N.Y.: ASME, 2012): no. 70248 doi 10.1115/DETC2012-70248 ©2012 Author(s) 10.1115/DETC2012-70248 International Conference on Design Education; 24th 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 |
| spellingShingle | Elsen, Catherine Häggman, Anders Honda, Tomonori Yang, Maria C. Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects |
| title | Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects |
| title_full | Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects |
| title_fullStr | Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects |
| title_short | Representation in early stage design: an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects |
| title_sort | representation in early stage design an analysis of the influence of sketching and prototyping in design projects |
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