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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