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Author Eger, Arthur O

Title An introduction to evolutionary product development / Arthur O. Eger ; with contributions by Huub Ehlhardt & Ferry Vermeulen
Published The Hague : Eleven International Publishing, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (145 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover (front); Cover (back); Title page; Contents; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Preface; 1.2 Definitions; 1.3 Determination of the Concept; 1.3.1 Product Phases; 2. Theories Related to Industrial Design Engineering: a Short History; 2.1 Demographic Models; 2.1.1 Veblen (1899/1994): the Theory of the Leisure Class; 2.1.2 Mitchell (1983): the Nine American Lifestyles; who we Are and where we're Going; 2.1.3 Foot (1996): Boom, Bust & Echo; 2.1.4 Motivaction Research & Strategy (2011): Mentality; 2.2 Measuring Instruments; 2.2.1 Bense (1954): Aesthetica, Metaphysische Beobachtungen am Schönen
2.2.2 Berlyne (1971): Aesthetics and Psychobiology2.2.3 Boselie (1982): Over Visuele Schoonheidservaring; 2.2.4 Hekkert (1995): Artful Judgements; 2.3 Behaviouristic Explanations; 2.3.1 Crilly et al. (2004): Seeing Things: Consumer Response to the Visual Domain in Product Design; 2.4 Hierarchical Structures; 2.4.1 Maslow (1954/1976): Motivation and Personality; 2.4.2 Woodring (1987): Retailing New Product or Design; 2.4.3 Rogers (1995): Diffusion of Innovations; 2.4.4 Christensen (1997): the Innovator's Dilemma; 2.4.5 Pine and Gilmore (1999): the Experience Economy
2.4.6 Jordan (2000): Designing Pleasurable Products, an Introduction to the New Human Factors2.5 Other Relevant Research; 2.5.1 Forty (1986): Objects of Desire; 2.5.2 Krishnan and Ulrich (2001): Product Development Decisions: a Review of the Literature; 2.5.3 Prahalad and Ramaswamy (2004): the Future of Competition: Co-Creating Value with Customers; 3. Evolutionary Product Development; 3.1 Conclusions Regarding Theories Related to Industrial Design Engineering; 3.1.1 From Deterministic to Evolutionary Models; 3.2 Product Phases; 3.3 Product Characteristics
3.4 Description of the Product Phases3.4.1 Performance; 3.4.2 Optimization; 3.4.3 Itemization; 3.4.4 Segmentation, Individualization and Awareness; 3.4.5 Segmentation; 3.4.6 Individualization; 3.4.7 Awareness; 3.5 How to Use the Model; 3.5.1 Education; 3.5.2 Design Practice; 3.5.3 Styling; 4. Retrospective Case Surveys; 4.1 Electric Shaver; 4.2 Mobile Phone; 4.3 Bicycle; 4.4 Working-Class Housing; 4.5 Travelling; 5. Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Case Study: Development of Child Restraint Systems; 5.2.1 Incubation Period
5.2.2 Car Safety Features that Have Influenced Child Passenger Safety Expectations5.2.3 The First Safety-Focused Child Restraint Seats; 5.2.4 Initially not All crss Were Safe; 5.2.5 Consumer Guides Start Influencing Legislation; 5.2.6 Legislation Starts to Influence crs Design; 5.2.7 Types Come and Go; 5.2.8 Perception of CRS Change and Categorization Starts/Dominant Design Directions Emerge; 5.2.9 Coincidence Influences CRS Legislation; 5.2.10 Focus Shifts to Details; 5.2.11 Standardization and Safety Programme Organizations; 5.2.12 Consumer Associations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 26, 2013)
Subject New products.
Inventions -- History
Inventions
New products
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ehlhardt, Huub
Vermeulen, Ferry
ISBN 9789460947582
9460947581
132231912X
9781322319124