Developing a Collaborative Design Toolkit for the Personalisation of Running Shoes

Head, Matthew J.; Porter, Carla

doi:10.18848/1833-1874/cgp/v05i06/38232

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“…Inherently, the cost of an artisanal product is higher than a mass-produced counterpart. However, customer willingness to pay for a personalised shoe is only 10-30% more than a mass-produced one (Head 2012). A major reason of interest in personalisation is the customers' need of proper fit and comfort.…”

Section: Knitted Footwear Personalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design methodology for mass personalisation enabled by digital manufacturing

2022

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Mass Personalisation (MP) is becoming more significant to answer diversifying customer needs, as a result of the advancements in digital manufacturing. In contrary to the modular design in mass customisation, Design for MP (DfMP) proposes more profound changes in product and active user involvement in the design process, while maintaining mass efficiency. Traditional product development methodologies fall short in guiding MP, as it has the distinct differences with product variability and the customer involvement with specific needs. In this study, a dedicated design methodology for MP is presented, focussing on these key dimensions. The proposed methodology guides the designer through the development process of a user modifiable design and demonstrates how to facilitate the user involvement in reaching a personalised design. It proposes a flexible and adaptable seed design architecture, and an interactive customer co-creation process. The development of a seed design, construction of its design space, and management of the solution space with a design solution algorithm are elaborated. The application of the methodology was illustrated on the personalisation of knitted footwear, and 3D printed saxophone mouthpiece. The examples show the potential of the methodology to deal with coupled MP cases. A systematic approach to DfMP will allow expanding MP to more products, and acts as a foundation for the customer co-creation oriented design in the context of this emerging paradigm.

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Section: Knitted Footwear Personalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2022

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“…The YourStep toolkit, a web-based service, consisted of collecting personal data connected to running, such as users' measurements, colour preferences, etc. in order to personalise the running shoes to be purchased (Head & Porter 2011).…”

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Learning Generative Design Methods: Higher Education Students Developing Toolkits

Kärnä-Behm¹

2022

Int J Art Design Ed

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In order to achieve successful products and services, design research nowadays is searching for new methods that unify collaboration between professional designers and future users. Developing and using these new design methods is also of interest in design education. In this study, design toolkits are developed to practise participatory design with a user‐centric orientation. The purpose of this study is to analyse a case in higher education where students of art and design aimed at becoming craft teachers developed toolkits in design situations appointed beforehand. The literature review of the toolkit shows that a diverse and multidisciplinary field of applications has been developed. The data of the study consist of 24 virtual or physical toolkits made by the students as well as their reflections on their work. The results showed that executing a design process where students in a design situation had to enter into the future user's world creates empathy for designers. Also, various elements connected with the unifying of senses and physical activities were built into the toolkits as well as certain game‐like features. The results of this study can be used as basic data concerning making educational insights in design education in higher education.

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“…They are relevant to academia within three distinct areas of design research, woven textiles, footwear and craft-based design. In footwear, current research commonly focuses on efficiency (Antemie et al 2012;Joneja and Kit 2013;Liao and Jiang 2008;Maurtua et al 2012) and/or function and performance (Davidson 2012;Head and Porter 2011;Sterzing et al 2013;Vinet and Caine 2011) and is commonly conducted within the sciences and engineering. In contrast, this research contributes a creative perspective.…”

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Designing through craft practice: A woven textile approach for footwear

2019

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Commercial sandals are typically designed in a two-dimensional (2D) format with materials being applied during product development. In contrast, woven textile practitioners frequently utilize hands-on interaction with materials to produce design ideas through a craft-based approach. Hands-on making has been associated with a number of benefits including, but not limited to, knowledge generation and the potential for innovation. This article reports on practice-led research consisting of a sandal design project that integrates craft-based woven textile practice. Action research was used to develop the approach and evaluate the creative potential and practical considerations at different stages of the design process. Ultimately, this research determines where and how craft-based woven textile practice may be integrated into commercial footwear design and identifies the associated creative design potential. Qualitative data was recorded by written and visual means of documentation and analyzed using coding and clustering. The findings indicate that there is novel creative potential associated with the integration of a craft-based woven textile approach to sandal design and that it may be integrated to varying degrees at all stages of the design process. Benefits include opportunities for innovation, generation of in-depth knowledge, control, and immediacy in decision-making. Key challenges were noted in time and cost inefficiencies. The ability to consider material and product design in parallel ensured a considered relationship between the two. This led to benefits in the final designs that included the production of zero-waste, stitch free constructions. This research contributes empirical evidence and findings in relation to theoretical concerns in the area of craft practice as a vehicle for design innovation.

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Developing a Collaborative Design Toolkit for the Personalisation of Running Shoes

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Design methodology for mass personalisation enabled by digital manufacturing

Design methodology for mass personalisation enabled by digital manufacturing

Learning Generative Design Methods: Higher Education Students Developing Toolkits

Designing through craft practice: A woven textile approach for footwear

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