Browsing by Author "Britnell, Rich"

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Application of Learning Through Play in designing school playgrounds (Preschools to Kindergartens) to aid in children’s development

Yan, Ying (2019-07-24) ETD File Embargoed

Children are able to promote their academic learning performance through playing, which is more effective than traditional learning methods. Hence, suitable designing for school playgrounds aimed at providing an effective ...

An Approach to Design Products Helping Children Develop Habits

Zhang, Qianmo (2019-07-23) ETD File Embargoed

Habits are important in our life. More than 40% of human’s daily behaviors are decided by their habits. Parents are always looking for ways to help their children build good habits. Therefore, products that can help children ...

An Approach to Design Sensory Furniture for Autism

Wang, Xinyi (2021-07-14)

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the prevalence rate of autism in the United States nearly tripled from 2004 to 2020. The rapid rise in the number of autism diagnoses placesan economic burden on the United ...

An Approach to Integrate Art Thinking into the Industrial Design Process

Owings, Anna (2024-05-03)

This thesis presents guidelines for industrial designers to utilize a transdisciplinary approach that incorporates aspects from both design and artistic thinking to aid them in designing products. A transdisciplinary ...

Body to Backpack Interface Design Guidelines: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Human Body

Kohrman, Zachary (2017-04-20)

Backpacks are part of a class of load-carrying devices. With a wide of form and features, backpacks carry a variety of loads from school supplies and books, high alpine gear and survival gear, and numerous other articles. ...

Creative-based Problem Solving Tool for New Product Design

Yang, Chao (2019-11-22)

In a highly competitive and uncertain market environment, product development needs not only to satisfy the quality and speed of production but also to ensure the product contains creativity values. Introducing new products ...

Design Guidelines for Creating Visual Hand Management Board Games

Tang, Yuchen (2019-04-17)

This thesis develops a design guideline for a visual hand management board game. There are more and more board game players all over the world. However, in an independent survey with one thousand respondents, 25% people ...

Design Guidelines of Applying Cultural Context Analysis in Service Design

Meng, Zhen (2019-04-16)

This research will provide an overview of the service design process. This process provides a way to help service design, especially commercial service design, to analyze and use cultural context analysis in different ...

Design Tool for Child Cognitive Development Teaching Aid Design with Multisensory and Synesthesia Stimuli

JIANG, TIANYUN (2021-12-13) ETD File Embargoed

The negative effect of compulsory homework for preschoolers is encouraging the development of interesting learning ways that can effectively enhance learners’ passion and engagement. Since multisensory learning has earned ...

Guideline of Outdoor Exercise Equipment for Elderly and Elderly with Disabilities

Liang, Shuming (2024-05-03)

Aging causes a number of problems that can lead to physical health issues such as musculoskeletal problems in older adults and older adults with disabilities. This thesis examines the benefits of outdoor exercise for older ...

Guideline to refine the product appearance based on analysis of the line shape in the two-dimensional views

Wang, Shijia (2017-07-27)

According to the human perception, humans are more sensitive to the shapes of objects. For the product, the line shape represents the shape of the product in a two-dimensional view, and lines also work as the original and ...

Guidelines and Propensities Concerning Entrepreneurship For Emerging Industrial Design Professionals

Hylton, Errol (2013-07-19)

As cited by Hofer (2011), “There is little doubt that the economy has played a role in the downturn of available positions [for young professionals], but the way in which today’s graduates approach that problem suggests ...

Guidelines for Designing Handheld Tools for the Elderly

Gong, Lin (2017-11-20)

This thesis includes a set of guidelines on the basis of which to design handheld tools for elderly people. Elderly people are a very special group of costumers. First, their bodies go through many changes with the aging ...

Guidelines of Transferring Brutalist Architectural Styles from Mid-20th Century To Furniture Design

Zhu, Jinquan (2023-12-11)

This thesis explores how to transfer mid-20th-century architectural styles into furniture design to create furniture that harmonizes with the architecture itself. This thesis discusses the concept of applying mid-20th-century ...

Innovative Multi-Channel Shopping Experience Design Guidelines for a Society That is Aging

Yuan, Ye (2021-08-02)

The emergence of economic globalization has brought many opportunities and challenges to the retail industry. The improvement of people’s living standards has increased enormous demands toward consumption. To draw the ...

Pleasure of manual kitchen products: A checklist for designing manual kitchen tools

Su, Ying (2016-04-12)

As the heart of the home, the kitchen is always a happening place. It can be used to entertain family, cook that holiday meal, or just scrounge for the latest snack. Kitchen tools have an important role in creating ...

Tableware Design according to the Physical Environment

Xue, Haoran (2019-07-16) ETD File Embargoed

Food and water are the most essential things in our daily life. We eat and drink several times a day, which means we use tableware several times through the day. People either eat at home or dine out with friends or families. ...