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Demystifying the design process of demonstrators: contextual inquiry of two cases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Aleksandra Sviridova  and
Jouke Casper Verlinden
Aleksandra Sviridova*
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Jouke Casper Verlinden
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Belgium
*
[email protected]

Abstract

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Over years of practice, industrial designers have developed three steps that always lead to a design solution: inspiration, ideation, and implementation. Usually, the result is a product, but sometimes it is a demonstrator, a versatile concept, combining design, engineering, and art. However, designers usually are not aware of this notion. But if the result is different, how does it affect the design process? The analysis of the contextual inquiry study of two demonstrators shows that the transformation should happen during the ideation phase, where abstract concept becomes a story.

Keywords

demonstratorcontextual inquirydesign processdesign knowledgetacit knowledge
Type
Industrial Design
Information
Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 4: DESIGN 2024 , May 2024 , pp. 2443 - 2452
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