Applying Design Roadmapping in New Product Development Education: Insights From Student Design Teams

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Euiyoung Kim ◽  
Sara L. Beckman ◽  
Alice M. Agogino
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Development Education ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
The University

A design roadmap is a canvas that facilitates embedding user experience design goals into the earliest stages of the design process by envisioning how a concept can evolve over time to meet changing user needs. This paper explores the development of design roadmap canvases by product design teams in an educational setting. It does so by (1) examining the design roadmapping workshop deliverables from new product development student teams at the University of California, Berkeley between 2014–2017 and (2) analyzing 107 survey responses from students in those workshops about their design roadmapping experiences. The paper describes the benefits to students using design roadmapping and insights into how best to engage students in design roadmapping exercises. Finally, based on the challenges students had with the process employed in the experiment, recommendations are provided to help educators and practitioners make productive use of design roadmaps.

Research of FFE in TRIZ Theory

2013 ◽  
Vol 655-657 ◽  
pp. 2052-2056
Author(s):  
Chao Lan Tang ◽  
Xian Yang
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
User Study ◽  
New Product ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Kano Model ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Fuzzy Front End ◽  
User Demand ◽  
Design Idea

In TRIZ theory, Fuzzy Front End (FFE) is the stage of forming idea in New Product Development (NPD) process. A method combining UED and Kano model is proposed and applied to FFE of TRIZ theory. User study theory and methods in User-Experience Design (UED) are used to collecting user demand for new product, and Kano model is used to analyze the priority of user demands and translate user demands into function demands. The design of mobile application is illustrated as an example, this method is proved to be a perfect solution to form the design idea through analysis of user demand in FFE stage of new product development.

Meta4acle: Generating Compelling Metaphors for Design

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik M. W. Kolb ◽  
Jonathan Hey ◽  
Hans-Ju¨rgen Sebastian ◽  
Alice M. Agogino
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Team Member ◽  
New Products ◽  
New Product ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Exploration Tool ◽  
Design Case ◽  
Positive Results

Metaphors have successfully been used by new product development and design teams to help frame the design situation and communicate new products to stakeholders. Yet, the process of finding a compelling metaphor often turns upon stumbling upon it or a flash of insight from a team member. We present Meta4acle: a Metaphor Exploration Tool for design that suggests possible metaphors to make the process more one of ‘seeking out’ than ‘stumbling upon’ an effective metaphor. The tool takes data about the project in the form of a title, domain and key associations required of the metaphor and returns suggestions from a database of possible metaphor sources. We built a Meta4acle prototype and evaluated it with positive results for three existing design case studies. We present plans for its full implementation and evaluation.

scholarly journals Concept Clustering in Design Teams: A Comparison of Human and Machine Clustering

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengwei Zhang ◽  
Youngwook Paul Kwon ◽  
Julia Kramer ◽  
Euiyoung Kim ◽  
Alice M. Agogino
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Support Design ◽  
Concept Clustering ◽  
Student Teams

Concept clustering is an important element of the product development process. The process of reviewing multiple concepts provides a means of communicating concepts developed by individual team members and by the team as a whole. Clustering, however, can also require arduous iterations and the resulting clusters may not always be useful to the team. In this paper, we present a machine learning approach on natural language descriptions of concepts that enables an automatic means of clustering. Using data from over 1000 concepts generated by student teams in a graduate new product development class, we provide a comparison between the concept clustering performed manually by the student teams and the work automated by a machine learning algorithm. The goal of our machine learning tool is to support design teams in identifying possible areas of “over-clustering” and/or “under-clustering” in order to enhance divergent concept generation processes.

scholarly journals Becoming a Sustainable Organization: Focusing on Process, Administrative Innovation and Human Resource Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyejin Cho ◽  
Pyoungsoo Lee ◽  
Choong Ho Shin
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Human Resource Practices ◽  
Organizational Sustainability ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Survey Responses

Despite the importance of constant product improvement to becoming a sustainable organization, the relationship between different types of innovation and new product development has received little attention. This article contributes to prior research by proposing a necessary condition for successful product development, which increases organizational sustainability. While it has been widely argued that technological innovation is an important factor for new product development, we contribute by illustrating the importance of process and administrative innovation, which changes an organization’s way of doing business. By analyzing survey responses from 2127 Korean firms, we empirically demonstrate that process and administrative innovation increase the likelihood of achieving new product development goals. Our findings also show that innovation-supporting human resource practices such as talent development programs and work autonomy increase the effectiveness of process and administrative innovations. Overall, we suggest that organizations are able to achieve a sustainable presence in the product market when they constantly innovate the way they run themselves. Additionally, in order to manage such innovation, organizations should nurture a creative environment by devising effective, innovation-supporting human resource practices.

THE PARTICULARITIES OF NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
Fabio Shimabukuro Sandes ◽  
◽  
Fundacao Getulio Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
New Product
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