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Fil Salustri's Research
“Engineering without design is like science without research.”Tom Brzustowski, President of NSERC, 2004
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Research Projects
Read about some of the guiding principles of my research.
Formal Systems
- Overview of formal systems to explain design
- Product centred modelling, the overall framework.
- Axiomatic information model for design, for generating formally represented product models.
- Design mereotopology (aka AIMD:tng) explaining the nature of parts and wholes.
- ALX3d, for formal process description & reasoning.
- Logic notes contain random notes on logic.
- Context logic may be able to formalize situations.
Informal Systems
- Overview of informal systems for developing new design tools & methods
- Notes on the FBS framework.
- How does modular design fit into my overall design process?
- IDEA is a system for conducting concept design.
- Pattern languages in design engineering, and their application to best practices.
- Design schematics for information visualization in the early stages of design and product development.
- Tcl map is a small concept mapping tool written in Tcl/Tk to test drive ideas for design schematics.
- Interval-based methods applied to concept generation and evaluation.
- Achieving balance is, I think, a better perspective on design than is problem solving.
- Effectiveness versus efficiency as fundamental drivers of design.
- Boundaries of designing is a project to see where the act of designing becomes something else; it's an approach to defining designing by first defining what it's not.
- Products as transformers, an approach to structuring design processes based on treating products as transformers of their inputs to outputs.
- Function modelling, to better understand the transition between reasoning about function and behaviour, and reasoning about form & shape.
- Systems thinking on design, analysis, and validation.
- Product lifecycle management deals with the interface between IT, management, and engineering.
- Analogical reasoning is, I think, foundational to “creativity” and innovation in design.
- Reflection: the capacity of a person to think about self and the self's actions in a broader context.
- Problem analysis: a generalization of design briefs and requirements engineering, problem analysis involves identifying a problem and framing it in a way to which all agents agree.
- Design thesaurus is a project intended to try to capture similar ideas about design in an informal way.
- Quasi-natural language is an idea to develop a kind of structured english for design.
On Research Itself
- What is design research?
- General notes on research
Other Design Research Resources
I maintain a list of links to web resources about design research. Here's a list of the most recent additions to that list:
Other Things
- Design aphorisms: one-liners about design.
- Process consultancy: Notes on why it's important for design researchers to teach how to design to industry and business.
- Design strawman is an attempt to create a strawman architecture for all of design engineering.
- Design philosophy is thinking about design and how we do it, and the interfaces between design and other phenomena like creativity, intelligence, morality, neurobiology, evolution, psychology, sociology, etc.
- Let's try to describe the impact of design on industry and business in succinct, quantifiable ways.
- Information classification systems are the practical methods and tools used to categorize knowledge (including the Dewey Decimal system, colon classification methods, etc.)
- Potential projects that I have not yet found funding or time or manpower or some combination thereof.
- Some notes on intelligence.
- Fascan - a perl script to check for suspicious changes on a Mac computer.
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