Xiao Yiqi, Jiang Chenhan
College of Communication and Art Design, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, No. 516, Jungong Road, Shanghai, 200093 China.
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Int J Technol Des Educ. 2023;33(1):281-311. doi: 10.1007/s10798-022-09732-7. Epub 2022 Feb 10.
Social design produces strategic, systematic solutions or new cultures as a response to the complexity of social changes and, in consequence, designers who are used to the traditional way of ideation may not be well prepared for the requirements of social design. This paper identified the characteristics of the concept generation of industrial design students participating in a social design practice as novices. Using the think-aloud protocol, we collected the conversations and self-reports of students (n = 42). We then conducted a qualitative analysis of the designers' activities with the inductive and deductive coding method. An effect of prior knowledge was found on the themes of concept, as well as on the concept generation strategies and modes that industrial designers would prefer. Through a factor analysis of the frequency of students' design activities, six concept generation strategies were clustered. There were eight concept generation modes for social design we summarized with the journeys of designers' activities. This study also revealed the effect of concept generation strategies and modes of industrial design students on the quality of their social design concepts. The results may also shed light on the question how we can foster the quality of industrial designers to adapt to the extension of disciplinary boundary in design.
社会设计针对社会变革的复杂性提出战略性、系统性的解决方案或新文化，因此，习惯传统构思方式的设计师可能并未为社会设计的要求做好充分准备。本文确定了参与社会设计实践的工业设计专业学生作为新手在概念生成方面的特点。我们采用出声思维法，收集了42名学生的对话和自我报告。然后，我们运用归纳和演绎编码方法对设计师的活动进行了定性分析。研究发现，先验知识对概念主题以及工业设计师偏好的概念生成策略和模式均有影响。通过对学生设计活动频率的因子分析，聚类出六种概念生成策略。我们根据设计师的活动过程总结出社会设计的八种概念生成模式。本研究还揭示了工业设计专业学生的概念生成策略和模式对其社会设计概念质量的影响。研究结果或许还能为如何提升工业设计师的素质以适应设计学科边界扩展这一问题提供启示。
