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ers and endusers toturn unspoken desires into consumer demand with a rare blend of beauty and utility that improve our lives.——Tucker Viemeister, IDSA, Vice President of Smart Design.The process of designing products is a multifaceted balancing act. It requires a synthesis of disciplines and a reconciliation of constraints. This requires creative pragmatism. The end result is a pleted product that looks great, operates as the user wants and expects and is manufactured for the right price.——Malcolm S. Smith, IDSA, Vice President of Palo AltoDesigners are not highly paid cake decorators. They are gurus of crossfunctional problem solving. Great design solutions are a seamless blend of technical, financial, emotional and brand naming issues. Industrial designers can marry the disparate points of view that effect a product39。s unique contribution places emphasis on those aspects of the product or system that relate most directly to human characteristics, needs and interests. This contribution requires specialized understanding of visual, tactile, safety and convenience criteria, with concern for the user. Education and experience in anticipating psychological, physiological and sociological factors that influence and are perceived by the user are essential industrial design resources. Industrial designers also maintain a practical concern for technical processes and requirements for manufacture。 and distribution sales and servicing processes. They work to ensure that design remendations use materials and technology effectively, and ply with all legal and regulatory requirements. In addition to supplying concepts for products and systems, Industrial designers are often retained for consultation on a variety of problems that have to do with a client39。 開始進行前期調(diào)查,資料收集和研究工作