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J.W. Hoftijzer

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There is a growing interest in the discipline of design sketching and drawing. Whereas its origin lies in the sketching and presenting of tangible (industrially designed) products, the discipline has, since approximately 2010, extended in various ways, along various dimensions. V ...
Today's global context of mass-produced items has resulted in an increasing 'distance', or alienation, between people and the origins of the items they buy and use: an unhealthy human-product relationship. This observation permits the search for an alternative interpretation of w ...

Democratizing design

The development of a ‘Design for Do-It-Yourself’ Framework

Digital technologies have enabled design sketching to expand into new applications and domains. Inevitably, these new forms of visualisation require re-evaluating how we use drawing to see, visualise, understand, and fabricate products and services in design education and the pro ...

OpenSketch

A Richly-Annotated Dataset of Product Design Sketches

Product designers extensively use sketches to create and communicate 3D shapes and thus form an ideal audience for sketch-based modeling, nonphotorealistic rendering and sketch filtering. However, sketching requires significant expertise and time, making design sketches a scarce ...

The visionary purpose of visualization

A study of 'quinny hubb' design case

A new analysis of design sketches for the design of the Quinny Hubb strawler, by Vanderveer Designers, was executed to validate and/or complement the existing typology of design sketch factors and outcome characteristics, as described by Hoftijzer et al (2018).@en

A typology of design sketches, defined by communication factors

The case study of the Thule Yepp nexxt child bike seat

Within the field of industrial design, sketches play a significant role for communication. Sketching represents a language for designers to explore options and support creativity, and to express visions and solutions to teams, clients and other stakeholders. Considering the many ...
The technological changes that concern the tools for making have an effect on the type of profession designers will have in the near future. The traditional ‘industrial’ relationships between suppliers, manufacturers, designers and users alter rapidly, causing business models to ...
Since the field of industrial design to a great extend concerns the creative development of threedimensional objects, project communication is often a visual matter. The activity of design drawing enables to visually suggest ideas and solutions that don’t exist yet. Drawing sharp ...
The activity of drawing has characterized the human being since pre-historic times. The ‘language’ of drawing was utilized long before writing was there. It is an expression of human’s unique creativity and an example of human’s near-exclusive usage of tools. In this paper, the b ...

Sustainability by Do-It-Yourself product design

User design opposing mass consumption

Hoftijzer, J. W. (2012b). , . . (paper in conference proceedings)@en

Design Management

Guiding the Design Process

Design for DIY

Beyond the fixed solution space

Paper presented at the 5th World Mass Customization and Personalization Conference: Mass Matching - Customization, Configuration & Creativity, Helsinki, Finland@en

The Implications of Do-It-Yourself

A changing structure in business and consumption

DIY and Co-creation

Representatives of a Democratizing Tendency