COMPARACIÓN DEL GRADO DE EFECTIVIDAD Y DE FACTIBILIDAD DE LA SOLUCIÓN EN DISTINTOS MÉTODOS DE DISEÑO

Abstract

Effectiveness is the fulfillment of design problem requirements and needs; whereas feasibility represents how difficult to implement a design solution is. There are several design methods that can be applied in conceptual design for problem understanding, such as functional analysis, or for ideas generation, such as SCAMPER or brainstorming methods. Creative methods lead to the generation of very novel and unpredictable outcomes, however they can also be unfeasible or with a very expensive implementation. We could expect that methods based on the analysis of the design problems may help designers to generate more effective outcomes in comparison to methods in which no problem analysis is applied. This work compares the degree of feasibility and effectiveness of the design outcomes obtained applying different methods, based on the evaluation of the design solutions obtained by means of a questionnaire answered by several experts. The results show that functional analysis leads to more feasible Solutions than SCAMPER method does; and SCAMPER leads to more feasibility than brainstorming. The results show no significant differences between the degree of effectiveness and the method. Keywords: design methods; effectiveness; feasibility