期刊名称：Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association
出版年度：2011
语种：English
出版社：The Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
摘要：The essence of the designers work is the creation of new solutions, usually related to the project of products to be produced in large scale. Thus, design is explicit in manufacturing companies but it is not usually related to raw material industries. However, designers work is necessary to materialize intangible products, as chemicals inputs, into concrete concepts. This is not as easy as it could seem and may demands special methods, as semantic panel. The semantic panel is a technique based on communication through metaphors. This can stimulate creativity allowing the designer to combine things that belong to different contexts and formulate new solutions to project from these associations. This paper describes the method and the steps performed for the development of a product that aims to turn tangible a new chemical solution with low environmental impact developed by an Italian chemical company. The method was conducted in two steps. First, an analysis of the design problem was performed by the designer and the company’s technicians and executives. Secondly, a semantic panel was constructed under the theoretical basis of bionics to define practical, symbolic, aesthetic and green product functions. The bionic analysis of a groundling plant resulted in the detection of parameters that could be suitable for the product design, as a good balance, physical and mechanical strength. The concept, plus the problem presented and the semantic panel led to the requirements of the product aesthetics (color and texture), symbolism (meaning) and ecological factors (processes of tanning the leather with chemical inputs). The resulting product from this procedure; a purse, achieved the project goals expressing clearly the performance expected from the chemical input.
