This brief personal reflection is inspired by the experience while working on a recently published anthology: “Un/Certain Futures - Roles of Design in Social Transformation Processes" (Förster et al. 2018). The author ...

In a world that gets harder and tougher every day, companies need creative and multifaceted solutions for facing their challenges, which simultaneously enables them to win over their rivals. Such a need leads to a ...

Throughout the history of international Expos, first held in Great Britain in 1851, governments made constant effort to reproduce a realm of design aligned with their policies. For instance, the republican French ...

Journal of Design Thinking is the first professional Design Journal in Iran which has been directed toward publishing the result of scientific research of researchers in different fields of Industrial Design, Design ...

The present study aims at investigating the effect of computer-aided rehabilitation on creativity and computer problem solving of industrial design students at the Islamic Art University of Tabriz. A semi-experimental ...

Since about a decade ago, design thinking has become a prominent topic in the scientific and business world. In order to keep up with global competition, design thinking has proven to be a valuable concept for assisting ...

The present paper is about the tools and strategies, designers adopt and develop to support their understanding of an underdeveloped smart material composite. Referred to as Light-Touch-Matters or in short, the LTM ...

This paper is based on a theoretical approach to service design, Design Thinking and the integration between the two concepts. The evolution of the traditional service design process was argued and its limitations critically ...

Higher Education is facing challenges that necessitate innovative problem-solving approaches. Design Thinking is an effective approach to address problems universities are facing. This exploratory study used a qualitative ...

Journal of Design Thinking is the first professional Design Journal in Iran which has been directed toward publishing the result of scientific research of researchers in different fields of Industrial Design, Design ...

Co-design is currently one of the most emergent approaches within design practices. Building on participatory design tradition and User-Centered approach, this approach affirmed in the literature's headlines as well as got ...

Mass Customization (MC) Toolkits are basically user interfaces that facilitate communication between the company and customer for customization of products, which transfers design data to customers and user data to companies. ...

In this study, the outcomes of a particular elective course — Furniture Design and Everyday Life — were analyzed and discussed, in which the students were given an assignment regarding the development of design ideas for ...

The goal of this study is to generate designedly solutions for improving the culture of healthy food consumption in Iran, through activity theory framework. Even though individuals might make conscious decisions to consume ...

Marianne Brandt is renowned for some of the most iconic design objects associated with the Bauhaus, the highly influential early 20th century design school in Germany that was one of the cradles of Functional Modernism. ...

Academic pedagogy of the architectural design process is one of the most contested concerns in architecture.Divergent thinking has resulted from the intricacy of architectural problems, as well as the requirement forcreativity ...

Perception as a general idea is related to different scientific issues that are involved in ‎cross-disciplinary ‎knowledge. Gestalt theory as the main concept of the research was surveyed ‎to answer why the objects are ...

Abstract: This paper presents empirical evidence of the designers' cognitive activities while solving different problems. We hypothesise that learning design problem solving also affects the way students tackle non-design ...

Despite the existence of a multiplicity of changeable and erratic desires for product design, 3D printer makers often mull about maintaining their market-leading positions. As the household 3D printer market segment has ...

The The first thing that catches a person's eye when they enter the city and expand their vision is the appearance of the city. All the components of the city exist in it, including the facades of buildings, furniture and ...