2.1 Design Methods and Processes Flashcards
What is User Centred Design?
Developing products with the end user in mind. Such products are easy to use.
What are the principles of International Usability Standard (ISO) 13407?
The design takes full account of users, the task they perform with the product and the environment in which it is used.
Users are involved throughout the design and development process.
The design is refined by user-centred evaluation.
The design process is iterative.
The design considers the whole user experience.
The design is developed by a multi=skilled team.
Ergonomics
Concerns the design of products that are easy or comfortable to use. Ergonomics is the study of the interaction between products and humans.
Anthropometrics
Body measurements.
What was the inspiration behind the Arts and Crafts movement?
Medieval craftsmanship, reflecting on natural forms to produce handcrafted furniture.
What was the inspiration behind the Art Deco movement?
Ancient Egypt. Produced simple, stylised products, using geometric forms that reflected a modern approach to design.
What did the Bauhaus design school embrace?
The machine aesthetic, to produce functional products designed for the mass market.
What did Post-modernist design challenge?
The minimal designs of Modernism, adding bold colours and sculptural aesthetics to products.
What does Phillipe Starck challenge?
Perceptions and aims to enhance the experience of the user through playful and thought-provoking design.
What did Dieter Rams develop?
A range of functional principles for good design.
What is the Council of Industrial Design? (COID)
A post-Second World War British organisation set up to improve design standards and competitiveness.
Post-First World War, the Bauhaus and development of furniture for mass production.
Believed in uniting art and industrial design, and had a revolutionary approach to design. A major influence on their furniture design was the large scale wartime adoption of metal tubing as a replacement for wood, which was sometimes weak due to its irregular grain structure.
Marcel Breuer is the Bauhaus designer most associated with the use of steel tubing for furniture.
The Second World War, rationing and the development of ‘utility products’.
The Second World War brought about a severe shortage of many goods. Rationing was therefore introduced. The Utility furniture scheme was one of the many utility schemes. They were initially only available to married couples and those who had lost their homes in bombing raids.
What was ‘Utility Furniture’ designed to be?
Strong, with no superfluous decoration, borrowing from the traditions of the Arts and Crafts movement from the beginning of the century.
Much of the furniture used traditional vernacular methods, involving locally sourced materials
What is Glulam?
The use of several pieces of timber that are glued together to create strong, composite components for use in buildings, bridges and other structures.
It is stronger than solid timber as the laminates have been carefully chosen to eliminate natural defects.
It has a better strength-to-weight ratio than steel due to minimisation of defects.
Ease of forming and shaping with lower energy costs.
It is a sustainable resource.
