… , knowledge and skills that underpin the design discipline at an introductory level of
expertise, and has been developed to meet the needs of aspiring designers in many areas
including industrial design, engineering design and technology, art and architecture. Elivio
uses an operational model of the design process―along with related educational strategies,
learning outcomes and an ordered set of design briefs―to develop a systematic, problem-based
method for learning design from a first principles viewpoint. The beauty of this … And it can also …

Professor Bonollo has crafted a text that aims at providing introductory studies in product
design which may be undertaken in the early years of programs in industrial and
engineering design, design and technology and product design engineering as studied in
art and design schools, polytechnics and universities. In scope, the book is primarily about
systematic, self-directed learning in design. Chapter 1 provides a foundation of first
principles in theoretical and practical aspects of design. These include: the theory of design; …