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Design

Chapter 7 addressed technical development and technical design considerations. This chapter discusses design from an applied arts perspective—a perspective commonly employed by such disciplines as industrial design, graphic design, and interior design in the course of product planning. Design from an applied arts perspective considers the aesthetic, functional, and human aspects of an object or process and is accomplished through research, thought, modeling, interactive adjustment, and redesign.

Defining What Is Meant by Design

Design can be formally defined as the process of originating and developing a plan for a product, structure, system, or component with intention. Design also represents the organized arrangement of one or ...

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