Prototy** is interwoven with nearly all product, service, and systems development efforts.
A prototype is a pre-production representation of some aspect of a concept or final design …

Artificial intelligence (AI) and the automation of creative work have received little attention in
craft education. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring Finnish pre-service craft …

Purpose With the release of headsets such as HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in 2016, fully
immersive virtual reality (VR) technology has become available for industrial designers to …

Co-creative systems have been widely explored in the field of computational creativity.
However, existing AI partners of these systems are mostly virtual agents. As sketching on …

Additive manufacturing (AM) is emerging as an important manufacturing process and a key
technology for enabling innovative product development. Design for additive manufacturing …

Product designers extensively use sketching to reason and communicate about 3D shapes,
as documented in popular design sketching textbooks [Eissen and Steur 2008, 2011; Pipes …

Highlights•Representations in engineering design promote clarity, but cause fixation.•A
representation influences the creativity of the designer.•During idea generation, function …

New ventures are increasingly recognized as candidates for creating novel sustainable
products that challenge existing practices. Yet, succeeding in product innovation for such …

Highlights•Designers are less challenged in interpreting design intent in ambiguous
sketches.•Designers pay more attention to visual elements of design sketches.•Managers …

Highlights•We found that engineering students are reluctant to sketch.•We propose 1) a
training workshop to teach sketching skills to engineers.•We propose 2) an art-based …