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How to crop Images
2008-03-20 01:07:00 Wow! This is a really great article on how to crop images. It handles Topics like “Covering Framing Mistakes”, “Finding Balance”, “Editing Distractions”, “Finding New Formats” and much more. So before you crop a picture in Photoshop again go and read this article!
Decision-Making in Engineering Design: Theory and Practice ????????:?????
2007-11-03 04:18:00 Yotaro Hatamura, "Decision-Making in Engineering Design: Theory and Practice"????????:?????Springer-; 1 edition (January 10, 2006) | ISBN:1846280001 | 265 pages | PDF | 3,3 Mb We use our brains when we create plans and designs. The resulting plans and designs take physical form, however, what we thought about, the alternatives we tried, and the constraints we recognized while we were making these plans and designs are usually not written anywhere. Therefore, those who only get to see the results, e.g. the final text and drawings, do not learn what led the designer to reach such conclusions and as a consequence never understand the real design.Decision-making in Engineering Design is the first monograph to provide a much-needed insight into the ways in which our minds behave when we make decisions, focusing particularly on decisions made about design. Written by members of The Practice of Machine Design Research Group and consisting of four parts, Decision-making in Engineering Design...
The Search for Intelligent Design Theory [Stranger Fruit]
2007-07-27 09:37:00 Gert Kortoff has written a review of Behe’s Edge of Evolution. He points out: Readers interested in “Intelligent Design Theory” will be disappointed. The reader won’t find an exposition of the Intelligent Design Theory. Nine out of ten chapters are about the limitations of neo-Darwinian evolution and the last chapter is about fine-tuning. There is no chapter devoted to design theory. Not even one paragraph describing what design theory actually is. … Behe has the complete freedom to write about design theory, but no coherent treatment of the theory can be found. Professor Jerry Coyne stated “his theory is flat wrong” (here). But, there is no design theory in this book. There are a bunch of observations and suggestive allusions to a theory. But not a coherent treatment of design theory. … Is it really unfair or unreasonable to expect in this book a coherent description of design theory after more than 10 years since his Darwin’s...
Design Theory 7: Elements of an Innovative Product
2007-07-03 03:20:00 A few years ago I attended a design seminar of which one of the speakers was an Innovation Manager from Philips. She spoke about the innovation process and design’s role at Philips. She first described her role in the organisation and her very multi-disciplinary approach to innovation. What we do ...
By: Design Sojourn
Design Theory 6: In the end does it look good?
2007-03-02 05:41:02 Recently I have been yet involved again in a very common design discussion that can be found in both industry and academia, and that is how to you grade, view or access a good design? In other words how do we know if a design is a good one or not? And how can we use this to our advantage to do good design? I wont go to much into assessment criteria or a creating a structure for it, as far too many papers have been written on this topic, whole masters degrees even, but what I want to talk about today is to pull back this concept on to a much more personal level and on how you would access your own work and your own design view towards good design. Just like in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking many times our own intuition, innate ability or design sense can be a good primer to help us in a “blink” of an eye determine quickly if a design is a good one or not. Honestly this will be the main acid test of whether any sketch stays o...
By: Design Sojourn
Design Theory 5: Does the Objective of Your Design Solve a Problem?
2007-02-22 23:35:01 When ever we work on our designs we often come to a point in the development cycle when we invariably ask ourselves, will our designs sell? Will it appeal to our target marker or users? And very often, we ask will it be a successful product? Not only that, another example could be when you are stuck in your concept selection phase and are wondering which are the best concepts to pick for management approval or selection? One of the ways that I have found that helps shore up confidence in your design solution is to ask yourself does the objective of the design or form that you came up with solve a problem? This can apply to many facets of a product and its design, some include: 1) The product’s function solves a need that people have. 2) The design of the product makes and action or a task easier. 3) Its shape makes the way a product is used easier. I have mentioned before in my previous posts, that many companies create products by either re-badging, re-shaping or re-fo...
By: Design Sojourn
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