IDES 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Great Exhibition, Jacquard Loom, Spinning Jenny
23 Sep 2016
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It is not all about aesthetics (you wouldn"t engrave spongebob on life saving equipment) Comfort: comfort isn"t necessarily soft, we want resistance, cant make computer chair too comfortable, you will turn into the middle age blob o. Stages of product design: research (throw out all the losers, the need/the problem and beyond, brief and specification, concepts, design development (preliminary design, detailed design, manufacturing. Other terms: investigate, research, analyze, propose, model, test, re-test, communicate. Research on end users: if they are using it wrong, you designed it wrong, interview, questionnaire, ethnography (observation) Its hard to write short but its better. British textile industry: could get people clothing, machin made is better. Steam engine-james watt: cleaner, got the idea by washing a kettle, non toxic, need a big drum to hold expiation. Labour unrest: change in techno was changing the social fabric, unseen consequence, nuclear weapons, bad emails from nigerian princes .
