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Designing the Digital Collecting and Managing of Inspirational Pictures and Associated Inspirations for Product Design Students

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2018, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
The pictures that give designers ideas are inspirational pictures. It is important for them in terms of generating new ideas and gaining knowledge. The inspirational pictures are mostly in digital format at present. But the current experience of annotating, organizing and managing inspirational digital pictures are found unpleasant. This thesis concentrates on how to develop a tool that can help product design students with collecting and managing inspirational pictures and associated inspirations. Secondary research was done to understand the relevant knowledge regarding collecting and managing inspirational pictures and associated inspirations. Based on this, interviews are conducted to understand why and how product design students currently collect and manage the inspirational picture and associated inspirations. According to these, insights were uncovered and transformed into design requirements, which led to the design of a web application Capiration. After the building of prototypes, user tests were conducted to evaluate the design and to find aspects that need to be improved in the future.
Craig Vogel, M.I.D. (Committee Chair)
Ian Bellomy, M.F.A. (Committee Member)
Gerald Michaud, M.A. (Committee Member)
81 p.

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  • Zhang, C. (2018). Designing the Digital Collecting and Managing of Inspirational Pictures and Associated Inspirations for Product Design Students [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535378333413095

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zhang, Chaozheng. Designing the Digital Collecting and Managing of Inspirational Pictures and Associated Inspirations for Product Design Students. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535378333413095.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zhang, Chaozheng. "Designing the Digital Collecting and Managing of Inspirational Pictures and Associated Inspirations for Product Design Students." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535378333413095

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)