In the materials selection process, the use of different tools, languages and perspectives
frequently causes disagreement between engineers and industrial designers. The aim of the …

Online platforms (ie Instructables) often provide design solutions developed locally for one
specific person's needs. The goal of the research is to understand how existing specific …

Mass customization involves consumers in the design process by enabling them to
customize a product through the use of a toolkit. The aim of this paper is to develop a …

The application of biological materials in everyday design is gaining traction and designers
are encouraged to employ biological systems through biodesign and biophilia. However …

Product design, and especially relevant for this study in textile design, is concerned with
designing not only products but also the materials that form the products. Here, designers …

BACKGROUND Products are to a growing extension being sold based on their soft values
such as aesthetic design, styling and the image they give the owner. This makes it more …

The aesthetics of a product is critical to its desirability, and can be described in terms of
syntactics and semantics. Syntactic aesthetics is an objective description based on the form …

Diese Dissertation setzt sich mit den Chancen und Herausforderungen auseinander, die
durch technische Möglichkeiten eröffnet werden, wobei neue Materialien und …

Generative design tools, empowered by recent advancements in computational algorithms,
offer the opportunity for human designers and design tools to collaborate in new, more …

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Support Change by Designing with Imperfection Francesca Ostuzzi Promotoren: prof. dr. ing. J …