A new model of conceptual design based on Scientific Ontology and intentionality theory. Part II: The process model

作者：Chen, Yong^*; Zhao, Meng; Xie, Youbai; Zhang, Zhinan

来源：Design Studies, 2015, 38: 139-160.

DOI：10.1016/j.destud.2015.01.003

• conceptual design
• design theory
• philosophy of design
• design science
• engineering design

To address the logical incoherence issue related to existing design models, this paper employs the conceptual foundation developed before to establish a new process model of conceptual design, i.e., the Need-Function-Principle-System model, which elaborates a conceptual design process with five major stages, i.e., clarification, synthesis, embodiment, analysis and prediction. The new process model can explain how a need in the intentional world is transformed into a function and then into an abstract principle in the semi-objective world, and finally into a model system in the objective world. The conceptual design of a hair-drying system is employed to demonstrate the developed design model. A discussion demonstrates that our process model of conceptual design is more logically coherent than existing design models.

• 出版日期2015-5
• 单位上海交通大学