Feedback in concept development: Comparing design disciplines

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2016-01-20
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Yilmaz, Seda
Daly, Shanna
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McKilligan, Seda
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel Success and Strategic Initiatives
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Industrial Design
The Department of Industrial Design seeks to teach students to tap creativity for the design of products, systems or services that meet commercial objectives in business and industry. The Industrial Design Program was established in the Department of Art and Design in 2010. In 2012, the Department of Industrial Design was created.
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Design feedback is an essential pedagogical tool to promote student design progress, yet little research has focused on what instructor feedback looks like, especially across design disciplines. In this paper, we analyzed feedback provided in dance choreography, industrial design, and mechanical engineering to explore variation in feedback type across disciplines as well as how feedback type encouraged students to take convergent or divergent paths in their design processes. Many common feedback types were observed across the three disciplines, regardless of variance in context and expectations, as well as some notable distinctions. With regards to feedback directing convergent and divergent thinking, feedback suggesting convergent pathways was more prominent across all three disciplines.

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This is a manuscript of an article from Design Studies, 2016, 45(Part A) Special Issue; Design Review Conversations; 137-158. Doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2015.12.008. Posted with permission.

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