Part One: Understanding Design -- 1. The Nature of DesignDesign Activities -- 2. Design Ability -- 3. The Design Process -- Part Two: Doing Design -- 4. New Design Procedures -- 5. Identifying Opportunities -- 6. Clarifying Objectives -- 7. Establishing Functions -- 8. Setting Requirements -- 9. Determining Characteristics -- 10. Generating Alternatives -- 11. Evaluating Alternatives -- 12. Improving Details -- Part Three: Managing Design -- 13. Design Strategies -- 14. Product Development.
This text offers strategies and tactics for product design. Its main emphasis is the design of products that have an engineering context, and it is primarily concerned with problem formulation. This edition contains updated examples and problems, and a chapter on the user scenario method.