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STRUCTURE SHARING AND MULTI-MODE INTEGRATION IN SUCCESSFUL DESIGNS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Srinivasan Venkataraman ,
Vishal Singh  and
Tejas Tilak
Srinivasan Venkataraman*
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Vishal Singh
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Tejas Tilak
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
*
Venkataraman, Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Design, India, srinivenk@iitd.ac.in

Abstract

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Structure sharing (SS) and multi-mode integration (MMI) are types of sharing in designs that help in resource effectiveness. This research explores their prevalence in successful designs. To do this: (a) 5 award-winning designs from International Design Excellence Awards are chosen, information of these designs is used to construct their Function-Means Tree and this is used to check whether they exhibit SS or MMI, and (b) 250+ award-winning designs are examined via a longitudinal study to check whether they exhibit SS or MMI. The following observations are made: (a) both SS and MMI are seen at systemic and sub-systemic levels, (b) both SS and MMI are and can be present in designs and (c) close to 35% of 250+ designs examined exhibited SS or MMI. These are fundamental insights, have not been reported earlier and build on the existing work on SS and MMI.

Keywords

Case studyDesign methodsProduct structuringResource effectivenessSustainability
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 1: ICED21 , August 2021 , pp. 2721 - 2730
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