For an efficient materials selecting process, the content and presentation of information about materials should be accustomed to product designers' approaches and needs. This paper aims at determining these approaches and needs by a series of interviews with product designers. Four needs were found
Information and designers
β Scribed by Sebastian Lera; Ian Cooper; James A. Powell
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 909 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0142-694X
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