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Concurrent consideration of product usability and functionality: Development of integrated design guidelines

Arora, Aniket

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2010, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Mechanical Engineering.
Previous works have established separate design guidelines for consumer product usability and consumer product functionality. Since realistic product designs require simultaneous consideration of product usability and functionality, we have integrated previously developed design guidelines for product usability and functionality. The first section presents the procedural details for developing these integrated design guidelines. A comprehensive and unified approach for simultaneous optimization of usability and functionality was considered in integrating existing design guidelines. A coherent framework for a design process inclusive of several design criteria, such as performance, ease of use, safety, and environmental affinity, was established for accomplishing the design objective. An example case was used to first integrate and then generalize the comprehensive guidelines. The generic design guidelines are presented in the form of checklists. Later, generalized integrated design guidelines are validated by applying them to a consumer product that is directly used by consumers. Statistical analysis has been performed for evaluating the design guidelines developed for the studied product and to highlight the customer preferences of different design requirements, in detail. The last part of this study deals with the application of the generalized integrated design guidelines to a complex consumer product which despite of being a consumer product has very little human interface. The transmission system for cars was used for this reason.
Anil Mital, PhD, PE (Committee Chair)
David Thompson, PhD (Committee Member)
Ronald Huston, PhD (Committee Member)
178 p.

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  • Arora, A. (2010). Concurrent consideration of product usability and functionality: Development of integrated design guidelines [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1289944199

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Arora, Aniket. Concurrent consideration of product usability and functionality: Development of integrated design guidelines. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1289944199.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Arora, Aniket. "Concurrent consideration of product usability and functionality: Development of integrated design guidelines." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1289944199

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)