In Touch with Consumers: FreeForm® as a Co-design Tool for Real-Time Concept Modification

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2005-01-01

Author

Şener Pedgley, Bahar

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This paper presents work from a collaborative project between Loughborough University and Procter and Gamble Technical Centres (UK), to establish how new product modelling technology (SensAble Technologies' FreeForm® touch-based virtual clay modelling system) can be strategically integrated as a co-design tool within new product development. The core of the work involved a step change in consumers' involvement in product design processes at Procter and Gamble: from reactionary to participatory. The use of digital tools in user-centred design and co-design are reviewed and the complexities of introducing such tools to non-designers are highlighted. Three product design projects are reported, involving consumers in co-design sessions where they were made active in the form creation process and engaged in real-time concept modification using FreeForm®. Findings from the co-design sessions are presented, with advantages identified in the empowerment of consumers and the streamlining of product development processes. The innovative nature of involving consumers with digital design tools is stressed and notes of caution are issued. A case for the strategic and effective use of FreeForm® as a co-design tool is developed and enhancements to the FreeForm® system are suggested.

Subject Keywords

Design, Digital method

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88138

Journal

Design Journal

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2752/146069205789338360

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Department of Industrial Design, Article

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B. Şener Pedgley, “In Touch with Consumers: FreeForm® as a Co-design Tool for Real-Time Concept Modification,” Design Journal, pp. 14–28, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/88138.