News
ENRICHING wins IF Communication Design Award
The book ENRICHING, which is for sale on this website, has won a prestigeous iF Communication Design Award in Germany. The book, that was designed by Fabrique Communication and Design (Netherlands) is based on a collaborative workshop organized by D&E, TU Delft and PolyU on Design & Emotion.
Conference announcement: KEER2010 (March 2nd-4th)
The Japan Society of Kansei Engineering (JSKE) and Arts et Métiers ParisTech have the great pleasure to invite you to the International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2010, in the heart of the beautiful city of Paris, on March 2-4th.
D&E Society endorses the 2nd Hoo-Ha Sensorimix
A mysterious name for a delicious blend of emotions and multisensory perceptions. Forget the classic methods you know and dive wildly into the new EUROSYN seminar: Hoo-Ha Sensorimix Festival in Barcelona (May 29th 2009)
Tools
Use of Technical Drawing Methods to Generate
Viewed individually, orthographic views could be interpreted in more then one way; using this ambiguity as a form manipulation device many forms or a family of forms could be developed. Further addition of spontaneous or methodical form-variation increases manifold the number and variation possibilities. Constructing and employing various project / domain / user-specific grids as tools in the form and design development process makes it easy to handle 3-Dimentional form variations on (2-Dimensional) paper. 3-D CAD software which are primarily used for making models / prototypes, once the design is ready, also can become effective and potentially integral part of the entire form and design development process right from the initial stages.
Bodystorming
Through physical action and acting out an idea using role-play, ideas and concepts can be tested more quickly. How the members from the design team or recruited participants react to scenarios can be noted, for example, how they behave, what intuitive actions they made or how they felt. Furthermore, the acting out of different situations can provide instant ergonomic and phsychological comfort information.