This collection of articles explores emerging topics in traditional areas of design theory and methods research. The articles fall into three primary categories: (1) enhanced communication via design artifacts, (2) technology-enabled design artifacts, and (3) collaborative design platforms that enable collective creation.
activities relevant to several applications, including competitive benchmarking, design-by-analogy, and patent infringement. Specifically, the work focuses on the similarity of functional implementations across products (as opposed to form), using structured functional models that are expressed mathematically.
External stimuli can fuel a designer’s creativity and improve the outcome of design ideation. Yet, the psychological phenomenon of design fixation may also occur in the presence of external stimuli.
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