Download or read book Enhance Innovation in Conceptual Design Through Knowledge Structuring written by Xin Yi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual design plays a critical role in engineering design, as the innovation level of a product is mostly determined in this stage. Within conceptual design, concept generation is essential, as it allows designers to propose innovative concepts that bring value to customers. However, keeping developing innovative concepts is not easy for designers. They are very likely to be fixed by existing concepts or solutions, which restrained them from offering new concepts.The thesis's objective is to contribute to enhancing innovation in concept generation by helping designers to mitigate this design fixation. To reach this goal, our proposal is to help them in better structuring their knowledge.Following clearly specified research procedures, we first take the case study of smartwatches design to learn lessons and explore patterns. Based on these findings, we develop a knowledge-based heuristic centred methodology to guide designers in innovative concept generation. The methodology provides guidelines that lead designers along with different steps, from knowledge identification to knowledge structuring.This method is illustrated on the smartwatches case study and experimented in different situations.