Open Source Product Design

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As part of my diploma thesis for my “Diplom Designer (FH)” degree at the university of applied science Schwäbisch Gmünd I created a hypothetical platform for an open creative process.

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informations graphic of the process

 

process notes

Process notes

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Screenshot of the opensourceproductdesign.org website during the experiment

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Screenshot of a process on the opensourceproductdesign.org website


Three different oriented design processes, where chosen as examples for this experiment. First there was a functional oriented design process, which aimed on designing a cheap easy to use blood pressure meter. The second process was mainly formal aesthetic oriented and focused on a new way to navigate on a computer. The third process was semantic oriented, with the goal to design a compact multi modular teaching and learning tool.

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