Abstract
Various innate beauty and wonderful operating modes exist in nature. Identifying creativity from physical features of organisms or biological strategies in nature and applying such new conceptual elements and methods to product development is an increasingly popular approach in contemporary product design. This study used teaching practice verification methods to summarize a set of bionic design methods and product development procedures. Through LAMDA method of lean thinking, this study understood users’ authentic needs of target products and the product value. Then, a Mandala Chart was used explore the biological strategies and forms of bionic targets. Subsequently, the summarized bionic Mandala Chart was incorporated into the causal diagram of the lean-thinking-based product development process, thereby activating bionic creativity in product functions. Finally, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) was employed to conduct fuzzy evaluation of students’ design outcomes. The results con-firmed that the proposed teaching approach can help students rapidly grasp the relationship between thinking models and creativity orientations, as well as facilitate student operation of the design process. The design outcomes were interpreted using the maximum degree of membership. Experts’ evaluation of the proposed design cases reached “good” or better levels. Favorable product design evaluations can improve product development efficiency and help realize students’ bionic design applications. The results serve as references for teaching of main product design courses.
Keywords
design education, bionic concept, lean thinking, mandala chart, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (fce)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.05.177
Citation
Shieh, M., Hsiao, H.,and Hsiao, Y.(2021) Reform of product design teaching based on bionic concepts, in Bohemia, E., Nielsen, L.M., Pan, L., Börekçi, N.A.G.Z., Zhang, Y. (eds.), Learn X Design 2021: Engaging with challenges in design education, 24-26 September, Shandong University of Art & Design, Jinan, China. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.05.177
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Reform of product design teaching based on bionic concepts
Various innate beauty and wonderful operating modes exist in nature. Identifying creativity from physical features of organisms or biological strategies in nature and applying such new conceptual elements and methods to product development is an increasingly popular approach in contemporary product design. This study used teaching practice verification methods to summarize a set of bionic design methods and product development procedures. Through LAMDA method of lean thinking, this study understood users’ authentic needs of target products and the product value. Then, a Mandala Chart was used explore the biological strategies and forms of bionic targets. Subsequently, the summarized bionic Mandala Chart was incorporated into the causal diagram of the lean-thinking-based product development process, thereby activating bionic creativity in product functions. Finally, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) was employed to conduct fuzzy evaluation of students’ design outcomes. The results con-firmed that the proposed teaching approach can help students rapidly grasp the relationship between thinking models and creativity orientations, as well as facilitate student operation of the design process. The design outcomes were interpreted using the maximum degree of membership. Experts’ evaluation of the proposed design cases reached “good” or better levels. Favorable product design evaluations can improve product development efficiency and help realize students’ bionic design applications. The results serve as references for teaching of main product design courses.