Thesis project 2018
As the market of product design gradually becoming saturated, the design education society is constantly looking for another way out, and critical design thinking is gaining more and more attention. If we review the development of design history, we could find traces of critical thinking on some of the design works from design trends in different eras. These design works were showing the values beyond the framework of product market, while redefining the design terms again and again, providing new visions to the design society. This study attempts to bring critical design thinking into the process of product design development.
The aim of this study is to present the idea with a more engaging design methodology. This methodology model is based on a complete concept construction, combined with the idea of experience rebuilding, and to complete the final designs with the combination of ready-mades and post-design parts through methods of Context Transfer, Cut-up and Hybridity. The construction of design concepts must include the goal of design, the description of fictional context and the contextual ambiguity.
This study elaborates the constructed theories, the execution methods and the result of design practices: First, introducing relevant theories, proposing the process of product design interaction in a framework, and then constructing an analysis structure for case study; Second, running through case study and use the analysis result to come up with a complete design method. Third, verifying the applicability of this method with the design practice over three cases.
The result of this design study was presented on the 2017 International Design Conference College of Design, Shih Chien University, and evaluated through questionnaire interview. In the end, the content of the interview, together with personal suggestion were summed up as reference provided for follow-up researchers and designers.
As the market of product design gradually becoming saturated, the design education society is constantly looking for another way out, and critical design thinking is gaining more and more attention. If we review the development of design history, we could find traces of critical thinking on some of the design works from design trends in different eras. These design works were showing the values beyond the framework of product market, while redefining the design terms again and again, providing new visions to the design society. This study attempts to bring critical design thinking into the process of product design development.
The aim of this study is to present the idea with a more engaging design methodology. This methodology model is based on a complete concept construction, combined with the idea of experience rebuilding, and to complete the final designs with the combination of ready-mades and post-design parts through methods of Context Transfer, Cut-up and Hybridity. The construction of design concepts must include the goal of design, the description of fictional context and the contextual ambiguity.
This study elaborates the constructed theories, the execution methods and the result of design practices: First, introducing relevant theories, proposing the process of product design interaction in a framework, and then constructing an analysis structure for case study; Second, running through case study and use the analysis result to come up with a complete design method. Third, verifying the applicability of this method with the design practice over three cases.
The result of this design study was presented on the 2017 International Design Conference College of Design, Shih Chien University, and evaluated through questionnaire interview. In the end, the content of the interview, together with personal suggestion were summed up as reference provided for follow-up researchers and designers.