The Aesthetics of Efficiency - Here's How

Efficient Aesthetics Is Not Just Slim Design It’s Design Effect

How can designs be perceived and appreciated while at the same time understood to have an impact on users lives as well as social norms? The Efficient Artifact Model is the culmination of the focus of individual perceptions of value as connected to the appreciation of the outcome of the object. With such a shift designers can have further impact in their connections with functional underpinnings as well as the emotional content of users needs. 

                              

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Material Driven Design Necessity

Sometimes Breakthroughs Start at the Atomic Levels: Materials. Here’s How.

Material Driven Design is an approach and toolset for designing products focusing on the production capabilities of the base material consisting of three experiential components: Aesthetic (sensorial) experience; Experience of meaning; and Emotional experience. The designer takes a journey from materialproperties   and   experiential   qualities   to   materials   experience vision, then from materials experience vision to experiential qualities and  finally to material  properties,  then finally  to  product. 

                              

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Designing Sustainability via Convergance and Divergence

How are Designers Pushing Boundaries of What’s Next? By Diverging. 

Detailed quite carefully in Designing Sustainability: Making Radical Changes in a Material World by Stuart Walker the idea of divergent design methodologies is explored as a mechanism to bring larger changes to the world based on design sustainability. Factors such as spirituality, beliefs, their technological underpinnings and social meaning are measured and validated via specific toolsets to push designers to further investigate the mechanisms of innovations are accepted and utilized. 

                              

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Smart Product Service Systems – A Design Necessity

Products and interconnected telecommunications components are forcing designer to further build ecosystems never previously required. But why?

The necessity for deign thinking to further incorporate the use of Google indexing and URL linkbacks and therefore unique URL’s is the basis for many design efforts as a mechanism to increase SEO and product interconnectedness and is today part of the standard designers toolbox when initial concept creation takes place. In The Design of Smart Product-Service Systems (PSSs): An Exploration of Design Characteristics we see additional possibilities for design interconnectedness and mechanisms used by engineering and business teams to bridge the gap between physical products and interconnected online services for the above purposes. 

                              

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Product Appreciation Is Affected by Designers’ Intentions

Design has multiple facets that unlike other aspects of product creation ( such as engineering and business ) can directly effect the ecosystem and thus the end users emotional connection. Design is the story and the arc of what is held in the hand or observed with the eye. 

In the research behind Appreciation of Products Is Affected by Their Knowledge of the Designers’ Intentions we see the mechanisms for how designers craft the ecosystems surrounding their products and services. For instance, Design intention seems to influences the perception of  the  product,  enables  an  evaluation  of  the  intention  and  also  an evaluation of the product as a means to fulfill the intention which directly determines the interaction with what has been created. 

                              

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Inspiration and Fixation – Unconscious Design Emerges

What is the reason for spontaneous fixation and innovation combustion? Unconscious Design 

The reality of design thinking can be identified and focused onto a multitude of factors but one which is consistently ignored is the function of spontaneous fixation. In Inspiration and fixation: Questions, Methods, Findings, and Challenges we see the mechanisms and possibilities to allow the unconscious models of design effect the tools that designers use and more importantly the possibility of breakthroughs happening. 

                              

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iGNITIATE_Gregory_Polletta_Accountability and Design – Tools that Force Design

The fluidity of design can be limited by computers and the constraints devastating. What if there were another way. There is. 

In Accountability and Design we see the underpinnings of the mechanism for not being limited by computer and computational intensive toolsets thus limiting the creative process. Alternatives are discussed, tools are discussed and process reviewed. The implications are directly related to how designers in the future will be working together. 

                              

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Collaborative Design Within Augmented Spaces – It’s coming so get ready.

Designers and engineers are constantly forced into situations where tools to create collaborative environments stop the flow of working due to complexity and clutter. How can this be addressed: Augmented spaces. 

In The Adaptability of Collaborative Design Within an Augmented Space we see the underpinnings of the mechanisms to alleviate clutter and distraction from the design element in order to focus more clearly on the details necessary to formally manufacture and produce high quality and specialized design products. Further mechanisms for implementing design specific techniques show the validity of Augmented design capabilities to further push design and manufacturing boundaries forward at a rapid pace. 

                              

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Have Digital Tools Made the Revolution in architectural Forms - The answer is a paradox.

Using digital tool in design according to the original concept leads to more complex, unexpected and unusual forms. But is it helpful? 

The digital architectural form is a new creative product of mind and digital potentials in shaping ? It makes the revolution in architecture free. In Approches nouvelles des applications des technologies avancées en architecture, génie civil et génie urbain : lecture critique d'un économiste et d'un sociologue.

J. PERRIN, J. RUFFIER we see how digital tools enable designers to be free in creating digital architectural concepts with highest creative capability in generating forms. However there is a paradox here.  Some architects classify these radical architectures as a piece of art that can’t repeat. It is against the traditional elements and typologies of “natural” architecture in form, operation, purpose and aesthetic. 

What is the need of our complex society now? Globalized, fluidity, fold and customization in architecture? Or traditional stability, differentiation and standardization? The answer is both and at the whim of clients who are risk takers who push the boundries of design every day. The purpose of design is to push forward and in the evolution of form and function to create demand for objects and services that enhance our lives

                              

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