THINKING MODEL AND APPLICATION
IN PRODUCT FORM DESIGN

TAN Hao¹  ZHAO Jianghong¹  WANG Wei²  ZHANG Jun²

(1. Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Vehicle Body Design and Manufacture,
Ministry of Education, Hunan University, Changsha 410082;
2. School of Design, Hunan University, Changsha 410082)

Abstract: Product form design is a problem-solving process in ill-structured domain where designers’ knowledge and expertise are employed to finish product form problem-solving. The thinking process and model of product form design are the difficult problems in the area of design studies. Through a form design cognitive experiment based on the method of protocol analysis, a product form design thinking model is proposed. The model is that product form design thinking is a design in-formation process in two ways: bottom-up processing and top-down processing. And based on the model, a product form design thinking model based ICAID system is established and put into practice to finish some design works.

Key words: Product form design Thinking model Cognitive experiment Protocol analysis NC machine tools

CLC No: TP391  TH122

国家“十五”攻关(2001BA203B13-03)和国家863计划(2004AA424530)资助项目. Received 20051027, received in revised form 20051215