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Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design, 4th Edition
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, April 2008, Pages: 232
This new edition has been updated throughout with new examples, and problems broadening the appeal and relevance of the book from engineering design into product design. A new chapter on the User Scenarios Method fills the gap in the current ‘symmetrical problem/solution’ model of the design process linking ‘Overall problem’ and ‘Overall solution’. It presents a procedure and examples for investigating potential product user wants and needs, including the development of user ‘profiles’, ‘personae’ and ‘scenarios’, and culminating in a clear statement (a design brief) that identifies an opportunity for developing a new product concept. There is also a companion website providing power-point slides of figures for instructors.
About the Author
Nigel Cross, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Nigel Cross is Professor of Design Studies and Head of the Department of Design and Innovation at the Faculty of Technology, The Open University, UK. The Department was awarded Grade 5 ratings in the two most recent UK Government research quality assessment exercises. Nigel Cross has been a member of the academic staff of the UK's pioneering, multi-media distance-learning Open University since 1970, where he has been responsible for, or instrumental in, a wide range of courses in design and technology. He has an international reputation in design research, especially in fields of design methodology and the study of design cognition. Professor Cross is Editor-in-Chief of the international research journal, Design Studies, published quarterly by Elsevier Science in cooperation with the Design Research Society
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