2015•International journal of Asia digital art and designRequires access
A Study of Changes in Nature of Age-specific Design Methodology
Song, Yoomee, Yu Yu, Hyunjung
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Abstract
There has been a tendency that the history of design is described with focus on design outputs rather than on what lies behind the outputs. This study examines the history of design thorough the changes in nature of ‘design methodology’ used by in each age, instead of focusing on design outputs. First of all, assuming that the design methodology evolves around certain change factors such as a product, a user and a designer from the diachronic perspective reflecting social phenomena of the age, we analyze how it has evolved through the ages and research into the related cases. As the concept of the product is changed from an industrial product of physical properties to a digital product of virtual properties or a product combined with environment, more items need to be taken into consideration when selecting a design methodology such as usability, target user, service contact, platform, and ecological perspective. In addition, as the users have become active and positively involved in design and equipped with their own design capability, the design methodology that utilizes collective intelligence or involves the user directly into the design process has been devised. As for the designers, the scope of design has become wider to an extent that they have to design the concept of a product, its interaction, contents, service contact and system in general, not to mention its physical appearance. Therefore, integrated thinking and decision-making have become an inevitable part of design and the scope of the designers work has been expanded to the overall product development process. This study aims at analyzing and summarizing the age-specific characteristics and evolution of the design methodology within the context of correlation between the design methodology and change factors. It is expected that this study can help find useful design methodologies for the future, as a basic research on the development of the design methodology from the historical dimension.