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Open AccessPrototy** for context: exploring stakeholder feedback based on prototype type, stakeholder group and question type
Engineering designers frequently use prototypes to gather input from stakeholders. Design guidelines recommend the use of quick and simple prototypes early and often in a design process. However, the type and ...
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Teaching Design Innovation Skills: Design Heuristics Support Creating, Develo**, and Combining Ideas
An innovative idea generation process explores a variety of diverse design ideas. While challenging to achieve even for expert designers, support tools can assist designers as they learn to generate more ideas...
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Open AccessUsing design strategies from microfluidic device patents to support idea generation
Microfluidics has been an important method in providing answers to a wide variety of research questions in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology. Microfluidic designers benefit from instructional textbooks desc...
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A Comparison of Cognitive Heuristics Use between Engineers and Industrial Designers
The present study focuses on an exploration and identification of design heuristics used in the ideation process in both industrial designers and engineering designers. Design heuristics are cognitive strategi...