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This lecture note provides an overview of product design, covering various aspects such as the process of product design, types of products, and roles involved in the field. The document also explores topics such as the role of product designers, industrial revolution, and the different types of products.

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We live in completely designed world We are surrounded by multitudes of Designed products Spaces Systems Physical Created in response to Services Emotional experiences...

We live in completely designed world We are surrounded by multitudes of Designed products Spaces Systems Physical Created in response to Services Emotional experiences Social Cultural Economic need Generic process for tangible artefacts Generation of ideas Development of concepts Product testing Manufacturing implementation Role of product designer Encompass many disciplines – Marketing – Managemnet – Design – Engineering – Art – Science – commerce Bluring the boundries between many specialization » Furniture » Graphics » Industrial » Fasion » Lighting Design of consumer product to environmental object Enriching the quality of life at home or work place Commericial activity That help business, create and sell Technological development in Product design (4D printing) Innovative material (composites) Product design provides Unmet needs Improving function Appearance Offer new way of critically engaging objects Design is fundamentally making things better for consumers, users, business and for whole world Industrial revolution Mass production New manufacturing processes Division of labour Getting involment in wider process of developing new products Total rejection to craft people and craft traditions Industrial products_competitive climate Product development activities Integration of designers Design thinking Design process Strategic tools for product design Usable Attractive Reliable Cost effective Enable greater emotional ties Increased loyalty to the products Client___ designer relationship Understands Freedom and design flexibility process and arising problem Element of tension Harmony of relationship for new product development Categories of product design Routine – Where everything designer needs to know is provided Variant – Some aspects of design are open to development Creative – More unusual senario when invention is required DC24 Dyson Ball vacuum cleaner Types of products Neither unique nor complete But fluid and overlapping Individual products appears in one or more classification Consumer products (C.P) Largest category Product designers are directly involved Wide range of designed objects Lighting Domestic appliances Medical Audio video equipment Office equipment Motor cars Personal computer furniture Lighting Domestic appliances Furniture Office equipment Audio video equipment C.P works on different level – Functional – Aesthetics – Cost effective (client and customers) – Brand value C.P possses numerous components Involvement of design team Ergonomists human factors specialists. Their role involves ensuring that equipment and products are as safe and easy to use as possible. One-off artistic works Some classic designed products are considered as much work of art as the works of a designer. 1. iPod 2. The coca cola bottle 3. Beetle car Creation of actual one-off limited edition designed products Designers regularly create one-off pieces for the yearly design shows e.g; london design festival, international contemporary fair in Newyork Appearance_primary Function_less imporatnt Z. Island by Zaha Hadid Architects, 2006, an example of one-off artistic product, kitchen design Radical innovation in kitchen design Features intellegent environment for browsing internet, watching television, listening music while cooking The Tournament, Jamie Hayon 2009, ceramic piece, oversized chess set launched at London design festival Packaging, branding, advertising, marketing motor oil brands packaged butter fizzy drink Stock items Rolled sections bar stock plastic woven sheet embossing the process of creating a three-dimensional image or design in paper and other ductile materials), surface texture, and finishes for other products. parts of air craft engine Air bus A380 passenger jet industrial work station earth moving machinery bespoke tooling specialized manufacturing machinery A purified water filling plant example of industrial plant electric power station for cars Telephone network in society The work of the product designer involves at its core some form of problem solving. It typically starts with a problem statement given to the designer by the client, or the company involved can initiate the statement in-house. Generally speaking, product design problems have a set goal, some constraints within which the goal should be achieved, and some criteria by which a successful solution can be judged.

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