Emergence patterns for client design requirements

Published Date
Design Studie
July 2015, Vol.39:48–69, doi:10.1016/j.destud.2015.05.001

Author 

Anders Haug ^,

Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, University of Southern Denmark, Engstien 1, DK-6000 Kolding, Denmark

Available online 29 May 2015. 

Highlights

• A classification of design requirement emergence patterns.
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  Identification of the potential problems related to different emergence patterns.
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  Overall guidelines for addressing different emergence patterns.
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  Empirical studies supporting the contributions.

This paper focuses on a central topic in design communication studies, namely the elicitation of clients' design requirements. Based on interviews with ten industrial designers, the paper develops a conceptual framework that includes definitions of emergence patterns for client design requirements, potential communicative problems associated with these emergence patterns, and overall guidelines for addressing specific emergence patterns. The proposed conceptual framework aims at enabling designers to elicit clients' design requirements more efficiently and providing a foundation for future design communication research.

Keywords

design communication

requirement emergence

design requirements

design brief

industrial design

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  Corresponding author: Anders Haug.
  
  

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