Applicability of the Engineering Design Process Theory in the Apparel Design Process

Regan, Cynthia L.; Kincade, Doris H.; Sheldon, Gwen

doi:10.1177/0887302x9801600105

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“…Brannon (2007:68) argues that synthesis is a 'creative reintegration' of several ideas or elements. An evaluation of each idea can be done to refine new emerging ideas, while reflecting on other ideas to redefine them until the ultimate product-concept is finally defined (Regan, Kincade & Sheldon 1998). The designer's creativity should be applied to come up with feasible ideas that can provide solutions to the design problem (Tumasjan & Braun 2012).…”

Section: Creativity and The Designermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Not all the ideas on the components or materials are necessarily suitable for a specific clothing product (Regan et al 1998), which is why a synthesis of several ideas takes place during the design process (Aspelund 2010:79;Lamb & Kallal 1992;Regan et al 1998). One can argue that these ideas can revolve around the synthesis of client needs and input materials, or the synthesis of client preferences and materials, but the synthesis of ideas should be done in a creative manner so that the product that is eventually created is innovative.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Collaborating to compete: The role of collective creativity in a South African clothing design small business

Tselepis

Mastamet-Mason

Antonites

2016

SAJESBM

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Background: The number of apparel manufacturers in the South African clothing and textile industry is diminishing due to competition with importing apparel manufacturers. Nevertheless, South African small and micro-businesses still manufacture clothing products to meet the needs of the local markets.Aim: This study set out to explore and describe the role of collective creativity in the design process of a South African clothing small business that provides innovative clothing to local niche markets.Setting: The small and micro-businesses are typically owned by designers who can be viewed as artisan entrepreneurs. However, the competition for the local market is very competitive, and innovative designs and design processes can promote the competitiveness of the clothing small and micro-businesses.Method: A case study research design was implemented in the study, which included qualitative research methods. Semi-structured interviews, participant observation and analysis of the products against an innovation design framework were done.Results: The findings suggest that a collaborative design process supports the collective creativity of the particular owner-designers. Collective creativity enables innovative clothing products that result from the design process and it also reduced the perceived risk that the owner-designers experienced with regard to launching a ready-to-wear range.Conclusion: It is argued that collective creativity contributes to sustaining innovative design and enhances abductive reasoning for problem solving. Abductive reasoning, which is typically associated with design thinking, could be important for entrepreneurial thinking and recommendations in this regard are made.

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Section: Creativity and The Designermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Creativity and The Designermentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborating to compete: The role of collective creativity in a South African clothing design small business

Tselepis

Mastamet-Mason

Antonites

2016

SAJESBM

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“…Orlando [17] proposed that the relevant requirements must be stated for a substantive design process to establish functional clothing products. Regan et al [20] noted that the theories of the applied engineering design process can be adopted in clothing development such that the actions and decisions of the clothing design process can be interpreted. The quality function deployment (QFD) methodology was first released in Japan [8,2,11], systematically representing the correlations between product quality and their corresponding elements in the process flow [11], as well as converting customer requirements into product quality characteristics to ensure product design quality [9,12].…”

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The use of conjoint analysis in the design of bicycle-related clothing

Tseng

Lin

Chen

et al. 2011

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers

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Product design is a creative decision-making process that aims to satisfy human needs by releasing good products that can appropriately meet the preferential requirements of customers. In the development of new products, the designer must identify the preference and attitudes of customers toward certain products, ascertain the factors that make products popular in the market, and devise optimum design plans for those products. Biking has become a popular activity due to its contribution to maintaining health. Bicycle-related clothing is known to play an important role in comfort level and safety. Unfortunately, there is hardly any research or designs that consider customer preferences in the bicycle-related clothing design process. Many manufacturers mainly focus on the improvement of the material properties of clothes instead of clothing design to meet the customer requirements. This study uses conjoint analysis in bicycle-related clothing design to provide designers with an efficient approach to identify customer preferences. The lifestyles of users are examined through a massive amount of collected data used to design an attitude measurement chart/questionnaire. Customer requirements are subsequently categorized through factor analysis, and critical requirement attributes are identified for conjoint analysis. Finally, conjoint analysis is used to obtain the optimal design combination for bicycle-related clothing that adheres to the preferences of customers.

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“…Among these stages, the series planning stage includes the selecting of schemes and the market testing of product [7]. Most of the fashion companies take the R&D managing method based on serial business flow.…”

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The Study on Research and Development Decision Process of Fashion Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Ruan¹,

Gu²,

Wen³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Management Science and Management Innovation (MSMI 2017)

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Abstract-Development and research of new products in fashion small and medium-sized enterprises often lacks of standard. Disarrangement of the developing decision process has the negative effect on their growth and marketing performance. In order to offering a reference decision making standard for them, a cross module decision managing process model is established. It is structured based on the new product developing business process, and also based on the interviews on twelve fashion small and medium-sized enterprises. Besides the model, three main research results are also obtained as following. Four decision modules are extracted. Important decision points are refined. And decision process with information flow and sequence flow is clarified.

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Applicability of the Engineering Design Process Theory in the Apparel Design Process

Cited by 62 publications

References 8 publications

Collaborating to compete: The role of collective creativity in a South African clothing design small business

Collaborating to compete: The role of collective creativity in a South African clothing design small business

The use of conjoint analysis in the design of bicycle-related clothing

The Study on Research and Development Decision Process of Fashion Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

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