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
The cost of ID for products with relatively little user interaction (ex.: industrial equipment) is approximately ___.
tens of thousands of dollars
Development of an intensely visual and interactive product (ex.: automobile) requires ___ of dollars of ID effort.
millions
The more important ergonomics and aesthetics are to the product's success, the more ___ the product is on ID.
dependent
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
The expenses incurred to implement the product details created through ID is known as ___.
Manufacturing cost.
The penalty associated with extended lead time is called ___.
Time cost
What are the benefits of using ID?
Increased product appeal and greater customer satisfaction through additional or better features
strong brand identity
product differentiation
___ is when a company's products maintain a consistent and recognizable appearance.
Visual equity
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
What are thumbnail sketches?
Simple sketches of each concept made by industrial designers
Models of the most promising concepts are known as ___.
Soft models
Soft models are created in the ___ step of the ID process.
Preliminary refinement
Hard models and information-intensive drawings are known as ___.
Renderings
___ are still technically nonfunctional yet are close replicas of the final design with a very realistic look and feel
Hard models
Hard models are created in the ___ step of the ID process
Further refinement and final concept selection
What is emotional appeal?
The rating of the overall consumer appeal of the product
What is product differentiation?
The rating of a product's uniqueness and consistency with the corporate identity
There is a high degree of user interaction for ___ products