Transferring Design Methods into Practice

Wallace, KM

doi:10.1007/978-0-85729-615-3_21

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“…In these companies, concepts tended to be developed in parallel with the market research phase, and detail design commenced as soon as a feasibility study had been completed." [14] Wallace [19] states that much of the support that has been developed by design researchers over the past 40 years has not been transferred into practice. However, some of the underlying concepts of the developed methods did find their way into practice and had a great impact on design processes in industry [20].…”

Section: Methods and Methodologies In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wallace [19] summarizes reasons identified by the academic community for the slow or absent transfer of knowledge from academia (developing new methods) to design practice (applying methods). These reasons include: methods tend to be too complex, abstract and theoretical; they require too much effort to implement; and the immediate benefit of applying them is not apparent.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Discovery and Evaluation of Design Methods in Practice: An Empirical Study

Gericke

Roschuni

Kramer

2015

Volume 7: 27th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology

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Web platforms and literature on design methods allow users to search for existing methods based on the method’s name and stage of use. Little support is provided to assess whether a method is appropriate for the task at hand and the context where the method will be applied. In this explorative study, patterns in searching, selecting, assessing and exchanging experiences with peers in professional practice were analyzed across a range of disciplines. This work reports on our findings from interviews conducted with practicing engineers and designers. Several similarities in the way practitioners find, select and assess new methods were found and interesting differences were identified for the practices in exchanging experiences with peers. In this work, we present the findings of our interview study along with directions for future work to better understand design processes in professional practice.

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Section: Methods and Methodologies In Practicementioning

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Section: Methods and Methodologies In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Discovery and Evaluation of Design Methods in Practice: An Empirical Study

Gericke

Roschuni

Kramer

2015

Volume 7: 27th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology

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“…Furthermore, the knowledge about methods in industry in general is limited. Thus, it becomes a task for researchers in product development to transfer methodical knowledge into industry (Wallace, 2011). The variance of definitions of 'innovation' as well as applied innovation management techniques illustrates the different understandings of partners within collaborations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The authors therefore argue that it is essential to develop consistent concepts to describe and identify fields of innovation as well as concepts to support the understanding of past and future innovation processes. These elements should be part of research work to support the transfer of research results to practice and increase application of existing and new methods in industry (Wallace, 2011). At the same time, these activities will lead to new insights for research, since the use of methods in practice will highlight their usability and gaps for future research.…”

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confidence: 99%

How to Foster Innovation? Findings and Hypotheses for Collaborations Between Research and Industry

Şahin¹,

Cudok²,

Rapp³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference

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This paper stresses the importance of collaborations to foster innovation and highlights the need for a shared understanding of innovation. To support successful collaboration we outline essential success factors and formulate hypotheses to improve collaborations focussing on SMEs. A model is introduced, allowing the identification of fields and measures to foster innovation. In addition, the concept of Product Generation Engineering is proposed to analyse past and plan future innovation activities. The discussion and hypotheses are addressed to researchers in the field of product engineering.

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“…In the literature that reflects on design research there is a complaint that the discipline lacks generally accepted research methods for empirically validating its prescriptions, leading to a situation where design tools and methods are promoted and advanced without being systematically evaluated by experiment or against earlier established results (e.g., Blessing & Chakrabarti 2009;Birkhofer 2011;Wallace 2011). It seems sometimes even accepted that the validation of design methods cannot be achieved simply because real design projects are too contextual and too open-ended (e.g., Frey & Dym 2006;Reich 2010).…”

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A logical critique of the expert position in design research: beyond expert justification of design methods and towards empirical validation

Vermaas

2016

Des. Sci.

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This paper gives a general and logical analysis of the expert position in design research by which methods for innovative design can be derived from expert design practices. It first gives a framework for characterising accounts of design by the way in which they define and relate general, descriptive and prescribed types of design practices. Second, it analyses with this framework the expert position’s conservatism of prescribing existing expert design practices to non-expert designers. Third, it argues that the expert status of expert designers does not provide sufficient justification for prescribing expert design practices to non-expert designers; it is shown that this justification needs support by empirical testing. Fourth, it discusses validation of design methods for presenting an approach to this testing. One consequence of the need to empirically test the expert position is that its prescription has to be formulated in more detail. Another consequence is that it undermines the expert position since expert design practices are not anymore certain sources for deriving design methods with. Yet it also opens the expert position to other sources for developing design methods for innovation, such as the practices of contemporary designers and the insights of design researchers.

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Transferring Design Methods into Practice

Cited by 47 publications

References 4 publications

Discovery and Evaluation of Design Methods in Practice: An Empirical Study

Discovery and Evaluation of Design Methods in Practice: An Empirical Study

How to Foster Innovation? Findings and Hypotheses for Collaborations Between Research and Industry

A logical critique of the expert position in design research: beyond expert justification of design methods and towards empirical validation

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