Design Principles: Literature Review, Analysis, and Future Directions
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Wood, Kristin L.; Fu, Katherine K; Yang, Maria C.
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Design principles are created to codify and formalize design knowledge so that innovative, archival practices may be communicated and used to advance design science and solve future design problems, especially the pinnacle, wicked, and grand-challenge problems that face the world and cross-cutting markets. Principles are part of a family of knowledge explication, which also include guidelines, heuristics, rules of thumb, and strategic constructs. Definitions of a range of explications are explored from a number of seminal papers. Based on this analysis, the authors pose formalized definitions for the three most prevalent terms in the literature principles, guidelines, and heuristics and draw more definitive distinctions between the terms. Current research methods and practices with design principles are categorized and characterized. We further explore research methodologies, validation approaches, semantic principle composition through computational analysis, and a proposed formal approach to articulating principles. In analyzing the methodology for discovering, deriving, formulating, and validating design principles, the goal is to understand and advance the theoretical basis of design, the foundations of new tools and techniques, and the complex systems of the future. Suggestions for the future of design principles research methodology for added rigor and repeatability are proposed.
Date issued
2016-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and SocietyJournal
Journal of Mechanical Design
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ASME International
Citation
Fu, Katherine K., Maria C. Yang, and Kristin L. Wood. “Design Principles: Literature Review, Analysis, and Future Directions.” Journal of Mechanical Design 138, no. 10 (August 30, 2016): 101103.
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1050-0472