Design Performance

ISBN-13: 9781849969475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 216 str.

Francis J. O'Donnell; Alexander H. B. Duffy

Opis

'Design Performance' scrutinizes the support for improvement in design development provided by research into general business processes and design in particular, explores the nature of design development in industrial practice and highlights the requirements for its modelling and analysis.

Spis treści

The Need for Design Performance.- The Nature of Performance in Design.- Design Performance Measurement.- Industrial Practice.- A Methodology for Enhanced Design Performance.- A Formalism for Design Performance Measurement and Management.- The Impact of Resources on Effectiveness.- The PERFORM Approach.- A Methodology for Performance Modelling and Analysis in Design Development.- Application and Key Features.- Worked Example.- Analysis and Critique of Metrics.- Industrial Appraisal.- The PERFORM System.- Methodology Review.- Summary and Insights.

O autorze

Demand for this book will come from academic designers interested in which areas of the design process are best suited to enhancement to give maximum improvement in performance (and to communicate these to their students) and to industrial/commercial designers and design manager looking to make their design process as efficient, effective and competitive as possible.