Surprise Round
The two dimensions of prototypes discussed in U&E, where the first represents the tangibility of the product and the second represents the product in a mathematical or visual manner.
What are physical and analytical?
The two main components of a product specification.
What are a metric and a value?
What are hundreds of concepts?
The phase in product design that immediately precedes the Concept Selection Phase.
The phase in product design that immediately precedes the Concept Testing Phase.
What is the Concept Selection Phase?
When conducting a product's cash flow project, the value of all future cash flows (positive and negative) over the entire life of an investment discounted to the present.
What is net present value?
These specifications need to be established before generating product concepts.
What are target specifications?
(or ideal and marginally acceptable target values)
Part of the Concept Generation process that requires the team to interview lead users for potential solutions.
What is "external search"?
This idea shows concept development as an iterative process that is refined and improved by concept screening and scoring.
This step in Concept Testing is to define the purpose of the test.
What is the first step in concept testing?
When conducting a product's cash flow projection, or pro forma, the point when the sales revenue equals the total cost.
Metrics' variables should use these to specify the overall performance of the product, rather than issues that they cannot control.
What are dependent variables?
What is "Internal Search"?
A method for selecting a concept that relies on an influential member of the development team to choose the concept based on personal preference.
What is a "Product Champion"?
This survey population size is favorable if the test occurs early in the development process or the test is intended to gather qualitative data.
What is a smaller sample size?
The step in prototype planning and development where the purpose of the prototype is defined.
What is the first step?
A way to visually represent customer needs and thier corresponding specification metrics.
What is the needs-metrics matrix?
A tool that provides a way to consider combinations of solution fragments systematically.
What is the concept combination table?
These markings are used to evaluate concept variants according to selection criteria in the concept screening matrix.
What are "plusses" and "minuses"?
These are survey formats that can be used to collect information during concept testing.
What is a telephone, internet, or face-to-face interaction?
The activity in concept testing where the test protocol is established and the variables of interest are identified.
What is outlining the experimental plan?
These specifications are developed after concept generation and after the team has chosen the final concept.
What are final specifications?
This step in the concept generation process includes the development of a concept classification tree and a concept combination table.
What is "explore systematically"?
Once concepts have been generated, this process is applied throughout the remaining design and development process to identify promising concepts.
What is the Concept Selection Process?
This feature should be omitted from the concept description unless it is expected to be unusually high or low.
What is the price of the product?