Visible ideas: information patterns of conceptual sketch activity

McGown, Alistair, Green, Graham and Rodgers, Paul (1998) Visible ideas: information patterns of conceptual sketch activity. Design studies, 19 (4). pp. 431-453. ISSN 0142-694X

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Abstract

The successful design and manufacture of today's increasingly complex engineering products relies to an ever greater extent upon the production and communication of information. The majority of design research to date has concentrated on supporting the information-rich latter stages of design and concerned itself with the distribution of product descriptions for the embodiment and manufacture of products. The conceptual stages of design, typified by vague knowledge and shifting goals, have been excluded from the research investigation. While computer processing power, storage facilities and organisational capabilities could prove useful within the early stages of design what tangible evidence do designers produce that could be captured by digital techniques? This paper studies designers at work in the early stages of design, concentrating on the visible sketching component of the design activity so that it might be understood and its efficiency subsequently improved by computer support.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	conceptual design, computer-supported design, drawings
Subjects:	G400 Computer Science W200 Design studies
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2014 11:48
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:33
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/15130

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