Print Email Facebook Twitter Evolutionaire productontwikkelingEvolutionary Product Development: how "product phases" can map the status quo and future of a product: Productfasen beschrijven de meest waarschijnlijke levensloop van een product Title Evolutionaire productontwikkeling: Productfasen beschrijven de meest waarschijnlijke levensloop van een productEvolutionary Product Development: how "product phases" can map the status quo and future of a product Author Eger, A.O. Contributor Buijs, J.A. (promotor) Drukker, J.W. (promotor) Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Date 2007-05-29 Abstract In the field of industrial design engineering, research was until now concentrated on ergonomics, marketing, design methodology, etcetera. However, very little research has been undertaken studying the relationships between form giving and the following aspects: functionality, ergonomics, production and marketing. In this thesis, the phenomena that appear during the various phases of a product's life have been summarized. These phenomena apply amongst others to the market (is the product new to the market or are there a lot of competitors?), the functionality (is it possible to improve the functionality or has it reached a high degree of perfection?), and the ergonomics (has enough attention been paid to the product's ease of use, or is there scope for improvement?). The regularities that were found have been analysed and described. This has led to six product phases: performance, optimisation, itemisation, segmentation, individualisation, and awareness. The six phases are placed in a chronological order such that predictions about new or future products can be made. This can be done by positioning a product, based on its product characteristics, into one of the product phases. When developing a future product, a designer can add to the product characteristics of the next product phase, thus creating added value for the intended user. In this way, the product phases can help a designer in creating the next generation of a product. Subject product developmentindustrial design engineeringproduct phasefuture productsfunctionalitystyling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8044a1e4-5f34-4b60-b328-3a3c3dee78fb Publisher Lemma ISBN 978-90-5931-054-4 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2007 A.O. Eger / Uitgeverij Lemma Files PDF ide_Eger_20070529.pdf 7.77 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8044a1e4-5f34-4b60-b328-3a3c3dee78fb/datastream/OBJ/view