Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Relevant Research
- Customer Survey
- Size
- Cost
- Function
- Use
- Location
- Materials
- Environment (eco)
- Materials
- What the customer likes
- Existing products
- Materials in the customers price range
- Recycled
- Sustainable
- Finishes
- Customer likes
- Existing products
- Eco friendly
- Other possibilities
- Joints and processes
- Existing products
- Customer likes
- Potential solutions
- Appropiate
- Adhesives
- Existing products
- Appropiate for specific materilas
- Potential alternatives (eco?)
- Ergonomic Data/Considerations
- What key sizes do you need to know to design your product?
- What part of the user will
interact with the product?
- Anthropometric Data
- What data do you need on the
customer / user to design your
product?
- Technical information/data of Components/Fastenings
- What construction method are you going to use?
Does it have technical information: eg. CAM and
Dowel systems to flatpack assembly.
- Sizes from Functional Considerations
- What does the product need to be to be successful?
- How big / small does it need to be?
- What does the customer want it to do?
- What do existing products do?
- Environmental Considerations: Location
- Where will the customer use the product?
- Will it be used in multiple locations?
- Protection from the environment
- Environmental Considerations: 6 R’s of Sustainability
- RETHINK - our current lifestyles and the way we design and make.
- Could you design it / make it in a more sustainable way?
- What does your customer want?
- REFUSE - to buy materials and products that are
unsustainable.
- What materials will you use to ensure
the product is ECO and sustainable?
- REDUCE - the amount of energy and materials
used to manufacture a product.
- Can you reduce the material / transport /
manufacture labour / carbon footprint of your design?
- REUSE - the product for something else so you
don't need to throw it away.
- Can you design the product to
be useful at the end of its life?
- REPAIR - the product so you don't
need to throw it away.
- Can you make the design easy
for the customer to repair?
- RECYCLE - finally take the product apart
and categorise the parts ready for being
converted into another product. This uses a
lot of energy.
- At the end of its life, can the product
be easley recycled?
- Safety
- Customer safety
- User safety
- Law; British Standards
- Safe for the environment