This lesson contains 12 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 60 min
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Design Triggers
By Kyle Smith
Slide 1 - Slide
What does the phrase 'design trigger' mean to you?
Slide 2 - Mind map
Definition of Design Trigger
Demand has been created from a need for a product or service.
Important Fact
Engineers apply physical laws, chemical laws and principles, and mathematics to design millions of products and services that we use in our everyday lives. These products include cars, computers, aircrafts, clothing, toys, home appliances, surgical equipment, heating and cooling equipment, health care devices, tools and machines that make various products, and so on
Slide 3 - Slide
List of Triggers
Market Pull/Technology Push
Demand
Profitability
innovation
market research
product/process performance issues
sustainability (carbon footprint)
designing out risk.
Slide 4 - Slide
Market Pull
Market pull is when product ideas are produced in response to market forces or customer needs.
What is Market Pull in the context of the automotive industry ?
Slide 5 - Mind map
Technology Push
Technology Push is where the technology is available and the designers make a product to use it.
Provide an example Technology Push in the context of the automotive industry ?