Thinking Process and its Relation to Visualization and Form Generation


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Creator/Artist: Madhuri Vetsa

Category: Product Design

Document: Special Project

Batch: 1987-1989

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  1989-1998

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Uday A. Athavankar


Detailed Description

For the development of a product, the most important criteria are its functional, aesthetic, and ergonomic aspects. The various stages involved in the product development are:

-Product conceptualization
-Drawing
-Prototyping
-Mould making
-Final Production

Once upon a time, the whole process was solely controlled by people and machinery, but now computers are extending their utility to these areas as well by having CAD for engineering drawings and CAM for manufacturing processes. However, there has been no such computer input at the product conceptualization level, which is the stage in which the designer has the most creative involvement. It is at this stage where the problem is understood, decisions are taken in terms of volume, size their shape and finally decisions of details, graphics and colours etc. This lack of computer support and help in this area drew interest, and thus this became the area of concentration for this study.