What Does Product & Service Design Do?: Involves Inter-Functional Collaboration
What Does Product & Service Design Do?: Involves Inter-Functional Collaboration
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Ethical Considerations
• Designers are often under pressure to
– Speed up the design process
– Cut costs
• These pressures force trade-off decisions
– What if a product has bugs?
• Release the product and risk damage to your reputation
• Work out the bugs and forego revenue
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Product or service life stages
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Life Stage Strategies
• Introduction
– Weigh trade-offs between eliminating ‘bugs’ and getting the product or
service to the market at an advantageous time
– Accurate demand forecasts are important to ensuring adequate capacity
availability
• Growth
– Obtain accurate projections of the demand growth rate and how long that it
will persist.
– Ensure that capacity increases coincide with increasing demand.
• Maturity
– Relatively, few design changes are needed .
– Generally, costs are low and productivity is high.
• Decline
– Continue or discontinue product or service and replace it new ones
– Identify alternative uses for product or service
– Continued emphasis on high productivity and low
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Reliability
• Reliability
– Is a measure of the ability of a product, part, or
system to perform its intended function under a
prescribed set of conditions
– Failure
• Situation in which a product, part, or system does not
perform as intended, an item’s performance is
substandard or it functions in a way not intended.
– Normal operating conditions
• The set of conditions under which an item’s reliability is
specified
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Phases in Design & Development
1. Idea generation
2. Feasibility analysis
3. Product specifications
4. Process specifications
5. Prototype development
6. Design review
7. Market test
8. Product introduction
9. Follow-up evaluation
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