A PRODUCT SUCCESS SCALE FOR SUPPORTING RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING DESIGN
DS 92: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference
Year: 2018
Editor: Marjanović D., Štorga M., Škec S., Bojčetić N., Pavković N.
Author: Maccioni, Lorenzo; Borgianni, Yuri
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN THEORY AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Page(s): 69-80
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.21278/idc.2018.0494
Abstract
Although product design targets success, the achievement of success is rarely verified or insightfully explored because of difficulties in measuring this term. The present paper addresses design research by proposing a procedure to extrapolate success of products by means of the vast knowledge made available by the scientific literature and the Internet at large. The final achievements are constituted by an algorithm to perform information search about product success and a success scale to be used as an ordinal variable in a posteriori studies involving large numbers of products.
Keywords: product success, product failure, product development, information retrieval, sustainable design