Design for Skin and Shape: An Innovative Design Approach

Abstract

Although all aspects of a product design are demanding and need several resources to be completed, Design for X (DfX) represents a series of formal methodologies used to optimize a specific aspect of the product design under consideration. Those DfX tools deal with different stages of the product design and there is considerable gap concerning the package design cycle. The proposed methodology Design for Skin and Shape (DfS&S) is focused on the package design industry and offers significant advantage towards its success. It helps the designers to be focused on shapes that are easily recognized by the customers and then create appropriate graphics for them. Following this approach, it is easier to create an innovative optical identity for the product and its packaging during the conceptual stage. The methodology can reduce the development time of the package, while designers have in mind, from the beginning of the design process, the shape which will guide them to its completion. Following the proposed methodology different packaging designs are presented.

A new role of unruly product design based on “Transformed Objects” design approach

“…Ergonomics is a combination of human engineering aspects with human factors. Furthermore, ergonomics becomes even more relevant when it is necessary for a user to fulfil operation requirements in more complex systems [1]. The specialists of ergonomics require considerable design project experience to unify the constellations of human factors principles, facts and techniques into a powerful and practical item [6].…”

“…The optical aesthetics is a factor which influences the users so as to purchase a new product. Therefore, the main reason, which this paper investigates, is the image of the products (Figure 1) [1]. Moreover, users try to buy new objects which help them in a daily basis and these fulfil their needs.…”

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“…The packaging and branding have to connect to the product and of course to the expectations of the target market. The goal of this paper is to present step by step the whole design process of a new product and its packaging from the ideation stage to the final rendered CAD model based on a workflow similar to the one found in the studies of Kyratsis et al (2015) and Alexandridis et al (2016) where specialized computational tools and methodologies are combined having as an objective the optimization of a design considering its environmental impact.…”