Improving Industrial Designers Work Process by Involving User Research
With changing times, new technologies and more opinionated consumers, the modern industrial designer has found himself in need of fresher and more up to date approaches in his daily work. In a fast moving industry, the designer needs to keep a thinking process of dynamic and subjective attitude. User research is part of user centered design (UCD). UCD has a reputation for subjective and reflective practice. In this paper there are two example cases. One is conducted by a classical industrial design process, and another is costing half of energy and time in user research.These examples will give the grounding for believing that the industrial designer needs to adopt user research methods to a level where he can still continue to work under the very nature of industrial design that has made it a successful practice for the last century. The combing of the approaches and attitude will help the designer to stay relevant in today”s product development process.
industrial design user research balance
Z.Dai (O)lafur (O)marsson
Center for Product Development Mads Clausen Institute cc Industrial Designer Blikaás 14,221 Hafnarfjordur Iceland
国内会议
杭州
英文
66-70
2011-10-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）