Axiomatic Design: Development and Application: Development and Application

Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This is a book introducing design theory and methods. "Design" is an extremely important but highly complex activity. Before engaging in any other activity, humans must design their actions. The success or failure of an activity is directly related to the correctness of its design. Since design is always associated with intellectual activities and creativity, and due to its intangible nature, it is often believed to rely on human intuition, talent, and experience. However, design must develop its scientific foundation, which is design theory. The author and his colleagues have proposed design axioms based on their decade-long research into the fundamental principles of design activities. The purpose of this book is to establish a scientific foundation for design, enabling designers to be more creative, reduce random searches in design, shorten the iterative process, and directly achieve optimization.