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Inspiration in Product Form Design: A Survey of Professional Industrial Designers

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Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2 (ICoRD 2017)

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Inspiration has long been considered important in many creative professions including industrial design, which plays an important role in shaping visual appearance of products. A product’s visual appearance has a significant effect on consumer response and product success. In the form design process, industrial designers play an important role in formulating intended consumer response (i.e. intentions), and in generating and evaluating concepts to effectively communicate the intentions. They may seek inspiration from a variety of sources not only to generate ideas to realise intentions, but also to analyse and communicate intentions. However, there is little or no knowledge about which inspiration sources (e.g. similar products, dissimilar products, etc.) and inspiration media (e.g. images, text, etc.) they use in their activities associated with intentions. We carried out a survey with 55 professional industrial designers to address this knowledge gap.

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We would like to thank all the participating designers.

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  1. Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

    Santosh Jagtap

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  1. Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bangalore, India

    Amaresh Chakrabarti

  2. Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

    Debkumar Chakrabarti

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Jagtap, S. (2017). Inspiration in Product Form Design: A Survey of Professional Industrial Designers. In: Chakrabarti, A., Chakrabarti, D. (eds) Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2. ICoRD 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 66. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_61

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