Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design (Paperback, 5)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: Design Fundamentals

1The Activity of Design

What Designers Say

What Designers Do

Case Study

2The Nature of Design

Design Problems

Problem Structures

How Designers Problem Solve

3The Design Process

Descriptive Models

Prescriptive Models

Integrative Models

Part Two: Design Practice

4New Design Procedures

Systematic Procedures

Design Methods

Creative Methods

Rational Methods

5Identifying Opportunities

The User Scenarios Method

6Clarifying Objectives

The Objectives Tree Method

7Establishing Functions

The Function Analysis Method

8Setting Requirements

The Performance Specification Method

9Determining Characteristics

The Quality Function Deployment Method

10Generating Alternatives

The Morphological Chart Method

11Evaluating Alternatives

The Weighted Objectives Method

12Improving Details

The Value Engineering Method

13Design Strategies

What is a Design Strategy?

Strategy Frameworks

Strategy Control

Learning to Design

Developing Expertise

Part Three: Design Thinking

14Design and Innovation

Product Planning

Systems design

References and Sources

Index