Design Philosophies Flashcards
Define standard design
Designing a product for normal operation. Considers fabrication and operation. For high turnover, low investment products
Define Life Cycle Design
Designing a product for its full lifecycle. Considers fabrication, operation, maintenance, decommissioning and disposal. Typically for large, long term or high investment products
Define Regenerative Design
Designing products to have zero or positive impact on the environment. Considers resource acquisition, fabrication, transportation, delivery, operation, maintenance, decommissioning, recycling and reusing
Define Human Factors Design
Designing for how the user will interact with the product (i.e. UI/UX design)
Define Universal Design
A subset of human factors design that focuses on the outliers (often disabled people)
Define the MAYA principle
Most Advanced Yet Acceptable principle. Products must be a balance between novelty and familiarity (google glasses were too advanced for its time)
