dear design community,
after finishing my graduation in design with a work in which most of the
classic design methodologies for the conception of products were
investigated – names such as asimow, archer, jones, munari and bonsiepe –
and a classification method was proposed to analyze the data collected, I'm
investigating now for my master studies if there is any research, either
recent or not, to validate design methods in a way that its efficiency could
be scientifically proven.
historical research evidences that the research on design methods began in
the sixties as well as it came up with the first explicit models.
descriptive or prescriptive models have been studied and applied on projects
and industries over the years, but how to measure the gain with the use of a
specific methodology for the conception of a product? or even how to confirm
its efficiency?
therefore, I would be very interested in any research in order to verify if
methodologies in design presents advantage with its use and how to quantify
this advantage, or even any research which investigates only a single step
of the whole process, like the initial problem analysis or exploration.
best regards,
arthur.
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Luis Arthur Leite de Vasconcelos
MSc student at the Federal University of Pernambuco – UFPE – Brazil
Researcher at the Virtual Reality and Multimedia Research Group / UFPE
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