Design Value: A Framework for Measurement

Design Management Review;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Design may enhance performance, but unless there are metrics to...challenge, Thomas Lockwood enumerates 10 categories in which design value and performance can be evaluated. They vary from...but all of them should serve as useful ammunition for the designer, design manager, and business executive. As ...

Celebrating Design as a Corporate Resource

Design Management Review;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...As the Design Management Review moves into its seventeenth year of...that executives and managers have moved from asking if design makes a difference to probing and exploring how design makes a difference. Design is a business resource, and...

Educating a Nation: The Swedish National Design Program

Design Management Review;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Understanding design is a matter of policy in Sweden. Ulla...technology and funding packaging and service design to enhancing the competitiveness of automotive...many small and medium-size firms that design is an underutilized strategic asset. Academics...

Looking at design. (IDSA).

Technology and Children;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Design surrounds us. Exuberant expressions of design are everywhere. Consider the coffee maker you use, your toothbrush, phone, and car. All are examples of design. Industrial design is the conception and manufacture of...

Design as a tool for leadership and social change.

Human Ecology;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Design and understanding of the design process can make people better leaders. That is a belief held by...of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis. Good design, like good leadership...

Time arrives, at last, when design is a priority.(Perspective)

Mississippi Business Journal;  October 15, 2007 ;     662 words ...Design, which is the process of creating something based on a...us mortal souls. There is no longer any doubt about it. Design has finally become regarded as the important aspect of...Morning, my favorite television program, has had an annual design show each year for the past few years. I also know this...

Doing what it says on the tin--PPS1 and sustainable design.(Design...

Town and Country Planning;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...DESIGN AND its treatment in government guidance over the last...however, and with increasing momentum and confidence, design--like planning--has come out of the shadows. It is once more respectable to seek to deliver good design, and a positive expectation exists that planning will be...

DFMA to RP, ASAP.(design for manufacture and rapid prototyping)

Mechanical Engineering-CIME;  September 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Design for manufacture and rapid prototyping both seek the same...have begun to complement their RP practices by the use of design for manufacture and assembly methodology. The concept of...DFMA software analyzes product configurations incorporate design for assembly, design for manufacture, ...

Design reviews: Checkpoints for design

Professional Safety;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Design reviews are proven methods of evaluating product and process designs against the set design criteria. If the criteria are met, then the design progresses to the next phase of development or production...

We know we need DFM; how do we get there?(Design for manufacturing)

Semiconductor International;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Design for manufacturing (DFM) is the hot buzzword in chip design circles. Triggered by the commercial deployment of new semiconductor process technologies at 90 nm and below, chip designers and their managers finally have to concede that they now...

Perspectives on designing design managers

Design Management Review;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Design management integrates two very different realities. To probe the background needed to embrace this duality, we...Cooper, Kyung-won Chung, and Maryann Finiw-to comment on the business knowledge and attitudes that distinguish designers from design managers. A Business Profile for Design ...

Architecture: Time for a makeover at the Design Council Forget blinds and...

The Independent - London;  January 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ...THE DESIGN Council is about to become a fashionable designer label again. Since its popular Haymarket shop closed...has quietly beavered away to introduce manufacturers to designers and plan the national curriculum for design. Successful...

IS DESIGN THEORY POSSIBLE?

JITTA : Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Because design is a practice, a theory of design is not possible in the same sense as a theory of chemistry is. Socio-psychological theories of what designers do are not design theories. Knowledge of how to design...

School inspectors' comments relating to teaching methods in Design and...

Research in Education;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Design and Technology is the most recent subject introduced to...There has been and remains very little research on primary Design and Technology and in particular associated teaching methods...indications about the present position of the teaching of primary Design and Technology and of the potential of ...

Safer by design: Reducing hazards through better designs

Professional Safety;  February 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Design engineers face increasing pressure to improve the level of safety in their designs. Although cost is probably the driving factor, other issues...directed to defending a lawsuit detract from more constructive design efforts. Many of these costs could be avoided by improving...