2019 Product Design Technical Group: Stanley Caplan User-Centered Product Design Award

Product Centered Process Design

Alignment of Product Portfolio Definition and User Centered Design Activities

To reach a product’s business objectives, the requirements of all relevant stakeholders have to be analyzed and considered in the product definition. This paper focuses on the processes applied to analyze and consider the needs and expectations of two of these stakeholder groups, namely the customers and the users of a product. The processes to produce customer centered product definitions and ...

Framing Sustainability in Human-centered Product Design

There is a global imperative for engineers to design sustainable products. However, user-centered designers have repeatedly found that sustainability is not necessarily a widespread user need. Based on user research from a graduate-level product design course, we present findings on how users define and describe sustainability, how sustainability issues interact with user needs, and the tradeof...

Design for Usability; practice-oriented research for user-centered product design.

The Design for Usability project aims at improving the usability of electronic professional and consumer products by creating new methodology and methods for user-centred product development, which are feasible to apply in practice. The project was focused on 5 key areas: (i) design methodology, expanding the existing approach of scenario-based design to incorporate the interaction between prod...

application of behavioral approach in product design based on user center design

abstract childhood is a critical era of life which has the ability to significantly improve the behavioral, educational and social aspects of individuals. identification of suitable environment of growing up along with a real insight into child's needs, help researchers and designers to gradually step towards improving the personal and behavioral characteristics of the next generation. see...