Systems Thinking for Product Designers

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Walter Zesk

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01 - Introduction

01 - Applying systems thinking to product design.mp4

01:25

02 - Benefits of Systematic Product Design

01 - Products are getting more complex Internal complexity.mp4

03:23

02 - Products are becoming interconnected External complexity.mp4

07:04

03 - Systems as a common language for a variety products.mp4

04:31

04 - Systematic modularity and collaboration.mp4

06:09

03 - Analyzing Product Mechanisms as Systems

01 - Principles of function analysis.mp4

03:47

02 - Static diagramming as a snapshot.mp4

03:29

03 - System hierarchy and boundaries.mp4

03:02

04 - Identify system components.mp4

06:59

05 - Setting up an interaction table.mp4

05:22

06 - Illustrating and classifying functional relationships.mp4

03:55

07 - Applying the process to a product.mp4

03:03

04 - Functional Optimization and Innovative Trends

01 - Importance of identifying trends.mp4

02:04

02 - Simplicity through integration.mp4

02:21

03 - Adaptability and customizability.mp4

02:27

04 - Macrosystem to microsystem.mp4

04:05

05 - Functional Conflict Resolution (TRIZ)

01 - TRIZ history.mp4

02:44

02 - Defining functional conflict.mp4

02:24

03 - The inventive principles.mp4

02:10

04 - Resolving without compromise.mp4

03:06

06 - Distributed Product

01 - Defining distributed products.mp4

04:49

02 - Use case functional analysis.mp4

04:03

03 - Define the distributed system.mp4

03:11

04 - Function analysis.mp4

04:28

07 - Experiential Products

01 - Defining experiential products.mp4

01:47

02 - Process diagramming.mp4

03:18

03 - Case study Defining the system.mp4

04:00

04 - Case study Hybrid process and functional diagramming.mp4

04:41

08 - Network Products

01 - Defining the network effect in products.mp4

03:38

02 - Feedback and causal loop diagramming.mp4

03:58

03 - Causal loop to stock and flow.mp4

05:32

04 - Stock and flow to simulation.mp4

06:14

05 - Case study Feedback and flow diagramming.mp4

07:07

09 - Conclusion

01 - Next steps.mp4

00:39

Description

While the internet and wireless communication technologies have been connecting people in new ways, it has also been linking together our products. The development of complex products requires bigger teams and greater specialization, and coordinating that effort is its own systemic challenge. As the complexity and interconnectedness of products rises, so does the need for an approach that guarantees that your products deliver the best experiences. In this course, Walter Zesk, professor and cofounder of Conform Lab, shows you how to apply systems thinking to product design. Walter points out several benefits of systematic product design, then steps you through how to analyze product mechanisms as systems. He explains how to identify innovative trends and optimize functionality in your designs., including functional conflict resolution. Plus, Walter goes over distributed products, experiential products, and network products.

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Professor of Integrated Product Design and Computational Designer, straddling the intersection of design, process engineering and computer science. Interested in applying computational design techniques to improve how the built environment interacts with other complex systems like climate, coastal dynamics and local ecologies.

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