Abstract
Successful product design focuses on design principles that are relevant to a target market. Consequently, the better these principles are understood and used, the higher the likelihood that resulting products will be well-received in that market. This thesis presents a method for extracting market-specific design principles for any market. The method employs user/designer-described characteristics of products within a market to extract the design principles specific to that market. The method generalizes the product characteristics, seeks to discover design decisions that could have resulted in those characteristics, and then extracts the underlying design principles. To demonstrate the ability of the method to extract such principles, the method is applied to two disparate markets; (i) best-selling products in the US, and (ii) products created for the developing world. The two sets of resulting principles are compared and shown to be market-specific. The author conclude that the method indeed results in market-specific principles that can be used to guide design activities.
Degree
MS
College and Department
Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology; Mechanical Engineering
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Campbell, Robert D., "A Methodology for the Extraction of Design Principles for Unfamiliar Markets" (2013). Theses and Dissertations. 3557.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3557
Date Submitted
2013-04-25
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd6158
Keywords
design principles, product characteristics, unfamiliar markets, developing world
Language
English