Human Factors and Ergonomics
Data which is collected by the designer
What is primary data?
These include coal, natural gas and iron.
What are non-renewable resources?
This outlines the principles and basic functions of a design or system.
What is conceptual modeling?
The measure of the amount of matter a body contains.
What is matter?
The development of a novel product or substantial improvement to an existing product.
What is an invention?
A timeless, industrially produced product that is incrementally changed.
What is a classic design?
This measurements refers to the part of the population which is at or below a metric
What is percentile?
A strategy that involves repeated use of components or products employing the same or an alternative purpose.
What is re-use?
Use to communicate ideas in visual medium.
What are graphical models?
The measure of efficiency with which thermal energy travels through a material.
What is thermal conductivity?
An individual person who develops a novel product on their own.
The emergence of a product design that achieves market dominance based on essential feature sets.
What is dominant design?
What is 95th%?
The least favored option in waste management
What is disposal?
These are used to clarify obscure or difficult concepts?
What are annotations?
Refers to the resistance of a material to abrasion.
What is hardness?
Creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.
What is intellectual property?
A paradigm in which the primary purpose design is to provide intended functions.
What is functional design?
Designing something to fit a set of the population instead of changing its dimensions
What is range of sizes?
The form of economy where materials are use and reused indefinitely
What is a circular economy?
Uses lines of sight that are always perpendicular to the viewing plane.
What is orthographic projections?
A measure of a material's resistance to plastic deformation to a stretching load.
What is tensile strength?
The successful commercialization of an invention.
What is innovation?
The production of large numbers of standardized parts.
What is mass production?
the 5th% of females and 95th% of males
What is the range designed for adjustability?
Generates electricity and heat for local usage.
Orthographic drawings that communicate function details, especially relative size and positions of all parts.
What are assembly drawings?
When exposed to temperature differential an electric potential is created and vice versa.
What is thermoelectricity?
The first people to adopt a technology after innovators.
Who are early adopters?
Designing products to evoke feelings of nostalgia.
What is retro-styling?