Design as "Defining a Meaning of Product" : Study on Industrial Design in Digital Age(2)

Abstract

This study is an investigation of how design should be in the current age of digital information.Systematic design, which is the basic principle underlying today's design methodology, is an analytical method. However, "what"is the focus in the design of digital products, and the synthesis process becomes more important. The following are regarded to be the requirements for a new design methodology. (1)The human/artifact system should be regarded as an integrated and reciprocal relationship that should be reconstructed as a whole. (2)Complete understanding and consideration of the physical environment and the social/cultural environments. (3)In designing information product for example, design considerations must be expanded to include not only utilitarian goals, but also mental objectives such as the meaning of communication. (4)A consolidation of perspectives independent of conventional design parameter definitions. (5)These concepts can be referred to as "design in which a product is defined in its true being".