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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Design expertise"”.
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Affect, Attitude, and Meaning: Assessing the Universality of Design in a Transnational Marketing Context
… research investigates the universality of design in a transnational marketing context. Specifically, it looks into designers' expertise transfer and knowledge calibration across cultures and explores cross-cultural differences in consumer responses (affect, attitude, and meaning) to design …
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From personal experience to design : externalizing the homeowner's needs assessment process
… reorganized and integrated system of residential design, may make custom homes a possibility for a larger segment of the population in the years to come. While tools and materials that embody building and design expertise are necessary for making such a system workable, how the homeowner is …
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Impact of Introducing Technical Design Elements in Makerspace Trainings
… explored and organized into categories. Second, Design Expertise was defined as a means to combat these barriers: it is a combination of (1) knowledge, (2) skill, (3) perspective, and (4) motivation. Third, a rigorous framework, the Design-Fabrication-Performance (DFP) matrix was created to break …
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Depolarizing the process : residential redevelopment and Seattle's design review
… has intensified the public debate over design and density. Conflict over individual development projects has escalated as the city struggles to balance economic and population growth with community needs, leaving many residents anxious about congestion, affordability, and a changing …
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FPGA-Based Accelerator Development for Non-Engineers
… flows targeting such hardware require digital design expertise. This work proposes a usable, end-to-end accelerator development methodology that attempts to bridge this gap between domain-experts and the vast computational capacity of FPGA-based heterogeneous platforms. To accomplish this, two …
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Understanding the Development and Implementation of Heuristics and Biases in Design
Heuristics are rules of thumb used by designers to save time and resources in exchange for satisfactory, but not necessarily optimal, solutions. However, there is a large knowledge gap in understanding how heuristics are developed, retrieved, employed, and modified by designers. Having a better …
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Selection and utilization of problem information by instructional designers
Based on the notion that instructional design is a goal-directed problem-solving activity, this study seeks to describe and compare the ways that instructional designers organize and utilize problem information in making design decisions. Research in areas such as architectural, computer software …
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Web 2.0 for urban designers & planners
… as "Web 2.0," can and should be used by urban designers and planners to achieve better results in public participation exercises. A brief overview of the World Wide Web is given-how and why it came to be, where it is now, and a glimpse at where it's headed. Public participation is …
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Process developments and critical design attributes in buffer systems for the biopharmaceutical industry
… in operational bottlenecks, inflexible facility designs, and elevated capital and operating expenditure. This work develops process improvements and identifies critical design attributes to enhance operational efficiency, sustainability, and flexibility. A comprehensive assessment of the current …
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Teacher decision-making in contested curriculum: A study of New Zealand social studies
… is about teacher decision-making in curriculum design. It argues that design difficulties arise when these factors converge: contestation about the curriculum subject, a decentralised and localised curriculum, a high level of teacher autonomy and limited priority for teacher subject knowledge. …
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A knowledge based framework to support product development
… technology has often taken over the role of the designer who carries out calculations and attempt to provide solutions. This has resulted in certain cases with designers having very little to no understanding or practical experience of the manufacturing process and design expertise required to …
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Supporting example-based ideation and assessment practices in engineering design
… examples have become the cornerstone of the design process. In essence, designers are no longer developing ideas from scratch, but instead designing through the synthesis of pre-existing design ideas. The repercussion of this new design paradigm is the quality of the design output has become …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of design support for small and medium sized enterprises in Scotland.
… their competitiveness in the market. Several design support programmes (DSPs) have emerged from this investment to promote design as a strategic resource for innovation and business growth. Although existing research indicates that an effective use of design can enhance the business …
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An investigation into the implementation of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations in the construction industry
… to the introduction of the first Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations in the UK construction industry on 31 March 1995 and since their introduction, the overall performance of construction H&S has improved gradually. However, despite this positive outlook, there are still …