This paper is a review of research in product development, which we define as the
transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. Our review is broad …

Design principles are created to codify and formalize design knowledge so that innovative,
archival practices may be communicated and used to advance design science and solve …

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This chapter presents the outline of our methodology and introduces the main stages and …

The field of Design Theory and Methodology has a rich collection of research results that
has been taught at educational institutions as well as applied to design practices. First, this …

Modularity refers to the use of common units to create product variants. This paper aims at
the development of models and solution approaches to the modularity problem for …

After reviewing current approaches to design theory, which are based on the transformative
concept of function, we argue that this basis in function limits the scope of design problems …

Design is a central activity in engineering. It is both a creative process not easily defined and
a thought process that can, with increasing success, be externalized, articulated, and …

Humans as designers have quite versatile problem-solving strategies. Computer agents on
the other hand can access large-scale computational resources to solve certain design …

Case studies are used in design research to analyze a phenomenon, to generate
hypotheses, and to validate a method. Though they are used extensively, there appears to …

If we will accept, going back far enough in human history, the selection of a drifting tree trunk
in a flooding river to carry a man to safety as the crude beginnings of our profession it might …