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H.H.C.M. Christiaans
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Drivers of usability in product design practice
Induction of a framework through a case study of three product development projects
In a case study of the development of three electronic consumer products, we traced the origins of usability issues. Based on the data collected, an initial, explanatory framework was induced of important drivers of usability in product design. We conclude that – while usability
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Barriers to and Enablers of Usability in Electronic Consumer Product Development
A Multiple Case Study
This study identified practitioner-reported barriers to and enablers of usability in the development of electronic consumer products. Barriers and enablers are properties, situations, or conditions in the product development process, team, or context that negatively or positively
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Product service systems
The future for designers? The changing role of the industrial designer
The role and focus of the industrial designer has changed and broadened over time. A next design practice with growing attention from the design
community is the design of Product-Service Systems (PSS). Within this paper we will discuss what the motivations are for the different
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Teacher and student interaction in a design studio setting has always been the basis of design education. A fundamental difficulty of design education is that the content of these one-on-one meetings between teacher and students remains remarkably implicit. In this paper, we pres
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Teacher and student interaction in a design studio setting has always been the basis of design education. A fundamental difficulty of design education is that the content of these one-on-one meetings between teacher and students remains remarkably implicit. In this paper, we pres
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Teacher and student interaction in a design studio setting has always been the basis of design education. A fundamental difficulty of design education is that the content of these one-on-one meetings between teacher and students remains remarkably implicit. In this paper, we pres
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Current public lighting is predominately directed to reducing energy and often is understood as a technical issue rather than a human one, mostly based on photometric visual performance. By taking advantage of the inherent flexibility of current lighting technologies, this resear
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To craft, by design, for sustainability
Towards holistic sustainability design for developing-country enterprises
Current sustainable design initiatives and approaches are already looking at using industrial techniques and technologies to recontextualize renewable materials to create innovative products and systems to suit global markets. However, the design outputs from these initiatives—wh
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Design Conversations
An exploratory study of teacher and student interaction in the design studio
The purpose of this thesis is to describe the process of teaching and learning how to design. Knowledge about design education has thus far lacked a foundation in empirical studies. As such, the thesis is built by four case studies conducted in real-context settings; the case stu
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