Dr Matt Sinclair M.Sinclair1@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
What will designers do when everyone can be a designer?
Sinclair, Matt
Authors
Contributors
Iryna Kuksa
Editor
Tom Fisher
Editor
Abstract
In this chapter, the author writes from the position that there is no fundamental difference between the design practised by professionals and that undertaken by amateurs. Much of the literature dealing with personalisation and the involvement of the consumer in the design process has concentrated on the possibility of changing the product's appearance. In the past, one of the key advantages of the professional designer – what allowed them to engage in design to a higher level than the amateur – was their access to the means of production. Within the field of industrial design, strategies such as user-centred design and co-design are common-place methods for the integration of user needs into the design process. Sinclair and Campbell present a classification of Consumer Involvement in New Product Development (NPD), which compares the new approaches to more conventional methods. Mass customisation, crowdsourcing and open design all, to varying extents, constrain the ability of the user to modify the original design.
Citation
Sinclair, M. (2016). What will designers do when everyone can be a designer?. In I. Kuksa, & T. Fisher (Eds.), Design for Personalisation (91-112). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576633-6
Online Publication Date | Apr 30, 2016 |
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Publication Date | 2016 |
Deposit Date | Dec 5, 2022 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 91-112 |
Book Title | Design for Personalisation |
ISBN | 9781472457394 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315576633-6 |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2967569 |
Publisher URL | https://www.routledge.com/Design-for-Personalisation/Kuksa-Fisher/p/book/9781472457394 |
Additional Information | Pre-press version available from: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/chapter/What_will_designers_do_when_everyone_can_be_a_designer_/9344333 |
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