Design · Product & Industrial Design
A topic within Product & Industrial Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.
2 works
Karl T. Ulrich
Frames design as a general problem-solving activity shared by engineers, artists and entrepreneurs, and lays out a systematic process from need-finding through concept selection that applies across product, service and system design alike.
230 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026Lucia Rampino
Proposes a framework covering the whole product-design field in which innovation comes from three creative levers -- form, mode of use, and technology -- and argues that most design-driven innovation is incremental change to one of these rather than the radical typological shifts design writing usually celebrates.