Comparing designers from practice and designers with systematic design education

✍ Scribed by Joachim Günther; Klaus Ehrlenspiel

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 206 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0142-694X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(99)00019-8

✦ Synopsis

T his contribution focuses on designers from practice who have had neither education at a university nor education in design methodology. These experienced designers, named p-designers in the following paper, have mainly had a practical education as draughtsman, technician or master craftsman. p-designers often do not use procedures of conventional design methodology. The support of design methodology is often looked upon sceptically 2 . Nevertheless, p-designers are successful designers with regard to the quality and duration of the design processes.

In comparison with p-designers, we observed designers who had education in design methodology at a university and gained design experience from 1 Gu ¨nther, J and Ehrlenspiel, K How do designers from practice design? In Frankenberger, E, Badke-Schaub, P and Birkhofer, H (eds) Designers-the key to successful product development Springer, London (1998) 2 Birkhofer, H Methodik in der Konstruktionspraxis-Erfolge, Grenzen und Perspektiven. In Hubka, V (ed) Proceedings of ICED 91. Schriftenreihe WDK 20