Host: Japanese Society for the Science of Design
This research propses a new design methodology focusing on the meaning structure. The presented methodology is based on the structure of meanings in the design process. The search and evaluation of meanings form the foundations of developing this structure ofmeanings. In order to facilitate the use and operation of the meanings, the WordNet lexical database is used. An existing visualization of WordNet is used for the process of meaning search. The WordNet::Similarity software for the measure of the relatedness of meanings in this database is the basic tool used for the evaluation process.