New product development by eliciting user experience and aspirations

✍ Scribed by ANNE BRUSEBERG; DEANA MCDONAGH-PHILP

• Book ID: 102968967
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 532 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1071-5819
• DOI: 10.1006/ijhc.2001.0479

✦ Synopsis

Industrial design training is embracing the need for designers to elicit user needs in order to support the development of successful new products. This paper highlights the collaboration of an ergonomist and two industrial designers in the development of a range of mainstream domestic consumer products. It documents the experiences gained in applying and adapting focus group techniques to inform the designing process directly, and illustrates how a variety of techniques (e.g. product handling and product personality pro"ling) can be incorporated to elicit user needs, aspirations and emotions.

2001 Academic Press