Reseach on Industrial Design Consultancies’Design Models Upon Regional Industries ─ Based on Northern and Central Parts of Taiwan

• Main Authors: LIN CHUN-HSIUNG, 林群雄
• Other Authors: 柯志祥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25441821159071321389

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 設計研究所 === 91 === As the global economy and communication becoming internationalized, the life cycle of a product is getting shorter and shorter because of the rapid increase of people’s need for new products and the raise of consumers’ consciousness. A business must face the critical global competition in order to survive well in its marketplace. Moreover, the government also tries to develop several industrial parks according to the condition of the environment in each city to bloom its industry. Hence, most companies will commission product design to professional designers to absorb more occupational experience, to avoid mistakes and also to stimulate their own designers. The purpose of this research is to study how designers of the northern and central parts of Taiwan, will face various design requires and procedures depending on different regions. There are four intentions in this research: 1. To explore usual proposals and procedures of industrial design companies in the northern and central part of Taiwan. 2. To probe into the domestic industrial design culture and find out a solution when designers meet the differences in design matters. 3. To compare the differences of design procedures, proposal contents, and clients’ consideration and mode in numerous industries. 4. To establish the regional unique industrial design characteristics for local designers to avoid unnecessary waste of design resources when they meets different industrial products. This research uses questionnaire and data analysis, interviews with famous experts of domestic industrial designers, conducts follow-up questionnaire, and analyzes 60 project design reports of “the plan for the promotion of product design ability and advancement” by Industrial Development Bureau. Finally, a general discussion is made and conclusion is put forward as the four specific suggestions of how industrial designers deal with regional product design proposals: 1. Design companies’ attention to commissioned design projects will not be influenced by regional industries. 2. The types of products have direct influence on the content of design proposals. 3. The relationship between design companies and regional industries does not depend on the region, but has a direct connection with the characteristic of products. 4. There are agreements of cooperation between design companies and industries yet no specific design models. 5. The type of industries will affect design compinies’ attention on the content of design proposals. Therefore, this resesrch concludes that the understanding of client’s decision making models and various needs for industrial design is the best way to handle design proposals by different industries.