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What are five critical goals that industrial designers help a team to achieve when developing a new product?
- Utility
- Appearance
- Ease of Maintenance
- Low costs
- Communication
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The cost of ID for products with relatively little user interaction (ex.: industrial equipment) is approximately ___.
tens of thousands of dollars
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Development of an intensely visual and interactive product (ex.: automobile) requires ___ of dollars of ID effort.
millions
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The more important ergonomics and aesthetics are to the product's success, the more ___ the product is on ID.
dependent
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The ___ of ID services is determined by the number and type of designers used, duration of the project, number of models required, material costs and other related expenses.
Direct cost
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The expenses incurred to implement the product details created through ID is known as ___.
Manufacturing cost.
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The penalty associated with extended lead time is called ___.
Time cost
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What are the benefits of using ID?
- Increased product appeal and greater customer satisfaction through additional or better features
- strong brand identity
- product differentiation
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___ is when a company's products maintain a consistent and recognizable appearance.
Visual equity
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What are the six steps of the industrial design process?
- Investigation of customer needs
- Conceptualization
- Preliminary refinement
- Further refinement and final concept selection
- Control drawings or models
- Coordination with engineering, manufacturing, and external vendors
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What are thumbnail sketches?
Simple sketches of each concept made by industrial designers
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Models of the most promising concepts are known as ___.
Soft models
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Soft models are created in the ___ step of the ID process.
Preliminary refinement
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Hard models and information-intensive drawings are known as ___.
Renderings
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___ are still technically nonfunctional yet are close replicas of the final design with a very realistic look and feel
Hard models
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Hard models are created in the ___ step of the ID process
Further refinement and final concept selection
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What is emotional appeal?
The rating of the overall consumer appeal of the product
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What is product differentiation?
The rating of a product's uniqueness and consistency with the corporate identity
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There is a high degree of user interaction for ___ products
user-driven
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