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“Design Relationships” reviewed by Mechanical Engineering magazine

June 15, 2009  Author: Brianna

Adriano Galvão’s book, “Design Relationships: Integrating User Information into Product Development” was reviewed in the May issue of Mechanical Engineering (ME). The review is now online through the ME Bookshelf .

For those who aren’t familiar with the book, Adriano starts with the premise that it’s more important than ever to ensure that data collected about users and their interactions with a device need to be integrated in the architecture and engineering phases of a product’s development. His book examines how to design user-product relationships into the core of a product’s architecture, based on information from product functions and user studies. He presents a methodology, the Function-Task Interaction Method, which is based on the concept of “affordances” and identifies, represents and quantifies the relationships that one has with a given a product.

Categories: Design, User-centered approach

3 Responses to ““Design Relationships” reviewed by Mechanical Engineering magazine”

  1. Bill Bartmann, on 09/03/2009 said:

    Great site…keep up the good work.

  2. Tona Balderas, on 03/25/2010 said:

    You really make good articles I would say. This is the first time I visited your site and so far I am impressed with the research you made to make this article awesome. Good Job!

  3. Brianna Sylver, on 03/25/2010 said:

    Thanks Tona and Bill!

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