Principles of embodiment design

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Activities

  • Activity 6: Designing the modules
  • Activity 7: Integrating the product as a whole

Necessary tools

  • There are common design principles. These can be found in further literature.

Description

These are overarching principles for appropriate design. There are many different principles that may or may not be helpful depending on the use case. The basic question of a methodical approach is pursued as to how, given the task and the selected effective structure, a function can best be fulfilled by which type and structure of functionaries.


Procedure

  1. Select or define design principles
  2. Apply these in the process

Sources

  • Pahl u. a. 2007, p. 353-354
  • VDI 2221 (1993)