ADMS 4245 Lecture Notes - Human Factors And Ergonomics, Ipod Click Wheel, Voice Of The Customer

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Characteristics of a good industrial design: small size and weight, performance features, superior ergonomics, durability, materials, appearance. Fierce competition makes it unlikely that a company will enjoy a sustainable competitive advantage through technology alone. Companies are increasingly using industrial design as an important tool for both satisfying customer needs and differentiating their products from those of their competition. What is industrial design: the birth of id is often traced to western europe in the early 1900s. They emphasized the importance of geometry, precision, simplicity and economy in the design of products. In short, europeean designers believed that a product should be designed from inside out . In the us; however, early concepts of id were different. While europeans were mostly engineers and architects, the us were theater designers and artist- illustrators. Id believed that the exterior was more important than the interior. For example, cars in europe were small, but in the us.

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