August 2011
Beginner
240 pages
8h 1m
English
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What is product design? / What does a product designer do? / Creating a product / The main stages of product design / Interview: Julia Lohmann / About this book
1. Historical and cultural context
The Industrial Revolution: 1750s to 1850s / The Great Reform movements: 1850s to 1914 / Modernism to pre-war luxury and power: 1900s to 1945 / The post-war period: 1945 to 1970s / Post-Modernism: 1970s to present day / Interview: Satyendra Pakhalé / Emerging twenty-first century design trends / Timeline
2. Research, brief, and specification
Product design research / Research methods / The brief / Identifying customer wants, needs and demands / Interview: Stuart Haygarth / The Product Design Specification (PDS) / Common elements of the ...