Construction of computer-aided industrial design system based on agility. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yang, Gangjun; Zhang, Xueliang
• Is Part Of: International journal of computing science and mathematics. Volume 6:Number 5(2015)
• Page Start: 492
• Page End: 500
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: industrial design -- computer-aided design -- CAD -- system construction -- agility -- people-oriented design -- self-organising teams -- adaptive design -- lightweight design -- information management -- creative thinking -- colour design -- agile design; Mathematics -- Periodicals; Computer science -- Periodicals; Mathematics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 510.285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1752-5055

Abstract

Industrial design is one of most creative human activities and it is a process to solve problems of uncertainty. Agile methods of adaptive ideas and human-centred thinking provide references for the solving of industrial design problems. This paper borrowed agile theories from other relevant fields and evolved the principles of agile industrial design-based agility. The first principle is people-oriented design and building a self-organising team. The second is adaptive design and steadily give valuable designs. The third is adopting light-weight design methods or techniques. The final principle includes some practices. Based on the above, computer-aided industrial design system was constructed for building the platform for computer-aided design and design information management. This platform helped to explore design ideas to the utmost. The core modules of the system consisted of three parts - implicit knowledge track of creative thinking, clients involving in design, computer-aided colour design, and design practices templates.