Conceptual Product Design Methodology through Functional Analysis

Exploration through Drawings in the Conceptual Stage of Product Design

This paper argues that sequences of exploratory drawings constructed by designer’s movements and decisions trace systematic and logical paths from ideas to designs. This argument has three parts. First, sequences of exploratory sketches produced by product designers, against the same task specification, are analyzed in terms of the cognitive categories of reinterpretation, emergence and abstrac...

Exploration through drawings in the conceptual stages of product design

This paper argues that sequences of exploratory drawings constructed by designer’s movements and decisions trace systematic and logical paths from ideas to designs. This argument has three parts. First, sequences of exploratory sketches produced by product designers, against the same task specification, are analyzed in terms of the cognitive categories of reinterpretation, emergence and abstrac...

Functional Analysis for Conceptual Aircraft Design

To maximize the aircraft market potential, it has to be rapidly produced and made available in the market. In order to reduce time-to-market period, manufacturers need to shorten their design and development process. It becomes vital that the design architecture solution is derived faster, which can be quite handful for complex products like an aircraft with the current geometrical-based approa...

FAD : a functional analysis and design methodology

A Methodology for Datawarehouse Design: Conceptual Modeling

Data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP) technologies have become growing interest areas in latest years. Specific issues, such as conceptual modeling, schemes translation from operational systems, physical design, etc... have been widely treated, but there is not a general accepted complete methodology for datawarehouse design. In this work, we present a multidimensional datawa...