Industrial Design

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Kamusal tuvaletlerde kullanıcı deneyimini anlamak: bir araştırma yöntemi olarak kültür sondaları
(Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, 2015) Köylü, Z. S.; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit Alpay
Gündelik yaşamın önemli bir parçası olan kamusal tuvaletlerin koşulları bu tesisleri sürekli kullananların yaşam kalitelerini belirgin ölçüde etkilemektedir. Kullanıcılar kamusal tuvaletlerde yer alan ürünlere konut tuvaletlerindeki ürünlerden farklı yaklaşmakta ve kir ile başa çıkmak adına farklı kullanım biçimleri geliştirmektedir. Çalışmanın amacı kullanıcının kamusal tuvaletlerde temiz-kirli algısı ve ürün kullanımı arasındaki bu ilişkiyi incelerken, kültür sondalarının bu mahrem ve hassas ortamda araştırma yöntemi olarak kullanılabilirliğini de ortaya koymaktır. Tuvaleti gündelik yaşam pratiğinin gerçekleştirilmesinde vazgeçilmez rolü olan kültürel bir nesne olarak değerlendiren çalışmanın, kullandığı yöntem ve benimsediği yaklaşım ile tasarım araştırmalarına ve pratiğine de katkıda bulunması beklenmektedir.
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Characterizing industrial design education in Turkey: a current synthesis for future directions
(Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, 2015-06-26) Doğu, D. I.; Öğüt, Ş. T.; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit Alpay
In recent years, we see an expansion of schools offering degrees at different levels in the field of industrial design in Turkey. Reasons for this expansion can well be found outside the design field itself as well as the national education reforms. This shift towards corporatization of universities is a business model usually adapted from foreign models. This adoption in education models also lead to the expansion of industrial design programs especially in private universities. Despite the rapid growth of industrial design education in Turkey, there is relatively little knowledge about the features or qualities that serve to identify these design departments. The main aim of this article is to discuss characteristics of industrial design departments in Turkey as a case regarding programs' profiles in geographical distribution, housing universities and faculties, academic members, student selection criteria and student numbers. Final remarks are recommendations for a prospective state of design education in Turkey.
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The role of interaction design in smart product development activities
(2015-10) Akoğlu, Canan; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; AKOĞLU, Canan; ER, Hamit Alpay
Although interaction design is a rapidly growing and even evolving design practice today, interaction designers still often have to explain what an interaction designer actually does and argue that their specialty is not something that anyone could do without a formal education both to stakeholders and clients who buy their designs.Furthermore, there still seems to be confusion when the job of industrial designers and interaction designers are overviewed together. The aim of this article is to build a background for the role of interaction design in smart product development activities within relationship to industrial design. Based on its strong roots within industrial design, this study also aims to present the relationship between industrial design and interaction design in the same activities. We conducted this research by having an interdisciplinary literature review and a field research consisting of 2 phases such as a series of interviews and a case study. The most extensive collaboration between industrial design and interaction design is seen at Planning and Concept Development phases which are the very early steps of product development activities. Compared to industrial design, interaction design is foreseen to have a wider activity area, a more strategic role in especially in early design process such as Planning, Concept Development phases of smart product development activities.
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Existential antagonisms: Boundary work and the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers
(MIT Press, 2016) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit Alpay; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan
Industrial design (ID) is a fairly young and largely unknown profession in Turkey. Although significant developments have taken place in the field of ID in the past 15 years, the scope of scholarly attempts to analyze the sociological meaning of designing in the Turkish context is extremely limited. We use boundary work and professional ideology as salient concepts for a sociological understanding the ongoing professionalization process of Turkish industrial designers, who are developing professional identities and striving for recognition in the larger culture. This paper relies on 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with key players (i.e., ideologues) of the Turkish ID scene to analyze these boundary-work processes. We found that the positive collective identity of Turkish industrial designers is built on a formulation of negative others. These negative others are ideological antagonists that are pushed to the “other” side of the demarcation line. Negative others are especially dominant in the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers because the perceived threats from these antagonists shape the collective consciousness. However, the construction of these others is an ambivalent process in which they also become ideological “friends.” We also demonstrate that professional ideology plays a pivotal role in producing, reproducing, and legitimizing claims of professionalism.
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Ahlak dışı nesneler: Ulus’ta kentsel dönüşümün bir psikocoğrafyası
(Vehbi Koç Ankara Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (VEKAM), 2016-09-25) Taşdizen, Burak; Kaygan, H.; Industrial Design; TAŞDİZEN, Burak
Bir zamanlar genç Cumhuriyet'in siyasi ve ekonomik merkezi olan Ankara'daki Ulus semti, kentin hem cumhuriyetçi hem de manevi geleneklerine ev sahipliği yapmayı sürdürmektedir. Önce gecekondularla sarılmış, sonrasında Kızılay'ın, başkentin yeni ekonomik merkezi olmaya başlamasıyla geri plana itilmiş semt, düşük gelir gruplarına terk edilmiştir. Günümüzde Ulus'un kendine özgü, çok katmanlı karakteri, kentteki önemli bir dini alan olan Hacıbayram'ın temsil ettiği manevi ve ahlaki değerleri gölgede bıraktığı iddiasıyla hedef gösterilmekte ve bu gerekçeyle bir kentsel dönüşüme tanıklık etmektedir. Bu makalenin amacı, psikocoğrafi bir yöntem kullanarak Ulus'un pazarlarında görüldüğü iddia edilen bu "ahlak dışılığın" izini sürmektir. Mevcut kentsel dönüşüm literatürünün sınıfsal yer değiştirmeye yaptığı vurguyu destekleyecek şekilde, dönüştürücülerin söylemsel müdahalelerinin deneyime dair temellendirmelerini görünür hale getirmeyi hedeflemektedir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda, Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesinin 2008-2016 yılları arasında yayımladığı bültenler taranmış; sonrasında İtfaiye Meydanı ve Telefoncular Pazarı gibi farklı bölgelerde, raflarda sunulan nesnelere ve bu nesnelerin sunumuna dair bir dizi gözlem yapılmıştır. Ortaya çıkan öznel harita, Ulus'taki "ahlak dışılık" hissine doğrudan etkisi olan maddi kültüre, bu maddi kültürün davet ettiği önemli pratiklere ve farklı toplumsal gruplara dair içgörüler sağlarken bu hissin üç bileşenini öne çıkarmaktadır: ekonominin kayıt dışılığı, mevcut erkeklik rejimi ve çatışan nostaljiler.
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Facebook as a boundary object in industrial design studio. A sotl study
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-28) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Ülkebaş, S. D.; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
We introduced Facebook groups as instructional tools in our industrial design studio courses. One of us experienced the effects of Facebook on freshmen while the other examined it with sophomores and juniors. Our analysis of the data focused on the content of students’ posts on Facebook groups, informal student interviews, our experiences in studios, and our reflective cross-evaluation. Our comparative analysis showed that Facebook better serves as a boundary object in the later years of design education. The freshmen, and partly sophomore, were not able to make effective use of this medium for exchanging knowledge. From the perspective of SoTL, this study not only helped us to experiment ways of advancing our pedagogy but also served as a platform for us to discuss and exchange knowledge on teaching and learning that is taking place in studio.
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Designing on the spot: Learning from the social design projects in Gökçeada/Imbros island
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-28) Erözçeli̇k, Meram Alayça; Taşdizen, Burak; Industrial Design; TAŞDİZEN, Burak
Design for social innovation is the emerging movement of the 21st century. Nonetheless, the socioeconomic impact of social design projects is conditional upon their multifaceted conception and upon their array of influence. In Turkey as elsewhere, sustainability is one of the main issues of social design projects in urban/rural territories. Generating innovation at the local level and for individual people also rely on design teams’ persistency on penetrating on local communities’ lives. This paper will focus on the design workshop series implemented on Gökçeada/ Imbros Island between 2014 and 2016. By expanding the problematics of sustainability in social design projects, the paper will propose a three years’ experience with academic purposes, based on benevolent participation and unfunded co-design. Finally, this paper will aim to contribute to the social design literature by illustrating a model of “designing on the spot” concept, for the sake of sustainable, long run design projects.
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User, research, and practice. learning from design consultancies
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-28) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
This paper reports a study that focuses on the impact of design research department on a consultancy's design process. Six 10-business-day long field studies were conducted at design consultancies representing architecture, industrial design, and interaction design. The findings show that design research departments impact the design process through design research outcomes and processes. Design research outcomes mainly target the client; but also serve as a validation tool for designers, provide a checklist for designers to target, and work as a boundary object between the client and the design team. In contrast to research outcomes, the design research processes were observed to have a deeper impact on designers through collaborative learning, contextual information, shared user scenarios, focus on user experience, and project rooms. In conclusion, rather than the existence of a design research department, the active participation of designers in the user involvement process has the biggest impact on the design process.
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Growth of undergraduate education in design in the united states, 1988–2012
(IEEE, 2017-10-03) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan
As part of a larger project that analyzes disciplinary and interdisciplinary growth in the United States, this article quantitatively investigates the expansion of undergraduate education in design at four-year colleges and universities between 1988 and 2012. It utilizes data from the US Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Survey (IPEDS), which is especially suitable for investigating field-level change. Results show that undergraduate design education is growing in both absolute and relative terms, but this growth varies according to different institution types and conditions. Hence, variables such as control type (i.e., public vs. private), Carnegie classification type, institution size, and institutional revenues have differential influences on the diffusion of bachelor's degree-granting programs and the share of bachelor's degrees. This study provides valuable insights to policymakers, administrators, and design educators who seek to make meaningful interventions within the academy, and it will advance our understanding of the changing institutional organization of design education and the future of design disciplines in the United States.
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Adaptation to internet-based services by seniors in Turkey
(The Design Society, 2018) Kuzuluk, Nisan; Balkaya, Melike; Güner, Güney; Ekströmer, P.; Schütte, S.; Ölvander, J.; Kuzuluk, Nisan; Balkaya, Melike; Güner, Güney
The motivation of this article is to analyze and define the barriers and opportunities in senior people’s adaptation to the Internet-based services in Turkey. Digitalization has emerged in developed countries where people’s lifestyle was molded by it, then the technology diffused to the developing countries including Turkey. With this emergence, internet-based applications have entered into people’s daily life activities such as shopping and using banking services. However, Turkey can be seen as a late-adopter of these digital technologies, yet Turkish companies have been fairly quick in adaptation and improving internet-based services to local needs. Today, many young and middle-aged users in Turkey are using above-mentioned services, and they take internet-based applications for granted in their daily life activities. On the other hand, senior people could not catch up with the diffusion of these kinds of internet-based services. There seem to be barriers to the adaptation of elderly people to the digitalized world and it seems to prevent usage of internet-based applications which makes accomplishing those tasks easier. A design researcher’s perspective can point out opportunity areas and provide innovative solutions to overcome barriers to adaptation. In this study, our approach is to conduct ethnographic interviews with senior people in Turkey in order to understand how they use internet-based services and how digitalization in this aspect is affecting their life. The second part of this study is to understand internet-based service providers’ perspective. By conducting interviews at service provider companies, we aim to understand their approach regarding the inclusion of senior users. As a result, service providers and end users will be examined simultaneously, therefore deeper analysis and conclusions will be obtained. To our knowledge, there is no research study investigating adaptation to internet-based services of seniors in Turkey from a design research perspective. As a conclusion, this study investigates the barriers in the adaptation of internet-based services by senior people in Turkey, and the study aims to find opportunities where design can help with the integration of the digital world and senior people.
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A co-authorship analysis of product and industrial design education literature, 2000-2015
(The Design Society, 2018) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Industrial Design; Bohemia, E.; Kovacevic, A.; Buck, L.; Childs, P.; Green, S.; Hall, A.; Dasan, A.; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan
Today, collaboration is the norm rather than exception in scholarly publications. Through coauthorship scholars can increase the volume and quality of their scientific output. Utilising these networks, they establish knowledge communities, which shape how academic fields evolve. As such recognising the structure of these collaborations is important for understanding fields and their trajectories. This paper undertakes an exploratory quantitative analysis of co-authorship networks in industrial and product design literature extracted from Web of Science between 2000 and 2015. Results indicate that the number of co-authored papers is rising yet large research networks do not exist in this area.
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Students’ product perception: a cross-sectional analysis
(The Design Society, 2018) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; Bohemia, E.; Kovacevic, A.; Buck, L.; Childs, P.; Green, S.; Hall, A.; Dasan, A.; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
This paper reports a study that was conducted to analyze the differences in product design students’ perception of products. While product perception is reported as one of the competencies of product design students, our knowledge on the development of this competence via design education is limited. In order to address this gap, students studying at different levels of design education at a 4-year product design programme were asked to participate in a keyword assignment study. Students were distributed a pen to analyze and asked to assign keywords that they associate to this product. The analysis of the keyword preferences across years indicates an increase in the use of keywords related to instrumental function of products. While students prefer using fact/description based keywords in the early years of design education, they rely more on opinion-based keywords in the later years. Most of these opinion-based keywords are associated with the instrumental dimension. Thus, the data from this case indicates more focus on instrumentality in the contemporary product design education.
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Creative problem-solving assessment and product design education
(The Design Society, 2018) Oraklıbel, R. D.; Ülkebaş, S. D.; İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
This study reports findings from the administration of Creative Engineering Design Assessment (CEDA) to product design. The aim is to assess the applicability of CEDA in this discipline for the analysis of students’ level of creative problem-solving (CPS) abilities throughout the years of product design education. CEDA measures CPS in four dimensions; i.e., originality, usefulness, flexibility and fluency. 225 students studying at three universities from Istanbul, Turkey completed CEDA on a voluntary basis. The analysis of the data indicates statistically significant differences between 3rd and 4th (on originality), 1st and 3rd (on usefulness), 2nd and 4th (on originality and usefulness), and 1st and 4th (on all dimensions) year students’ CEDA scores. Originality aspect of creativity seems to develop more as the students get into their final year, whereas the usefulness develops starting from the second year. While CEDA was useful as a tool to discuss our studio pedagogies, our experience in applying it in the context of product design illustrates the need to revise the instrument according to the nature of this discipline.
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The machineries of user knowledge production
(Elsevier, 2018-01) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
A multiple case study was conducted to investigate the machineries of designers' user knowledge production at six design consultancies in the Northwestern USA in domains of architecture, industrial design, and interaction design. Karin Knorr Cetina's theory of epistemic cultures was utilised as the theoretical lens. The findings indicate that the user is not a given; instead, the user is a constructed phenomenon in design. The design process is characterised by the deconstruction and reconstruction of the user information and of experiential information, implemented to meet the epistemic needs of designers. User representations are used as the liminal knowledge. Designers manipulated this knowledge in order to narrow down the artefact to be designed.
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Industrial design education in the age of digital products
(Taylor & Francis, 2019) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Karapars, Gülhis Zeynep; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil; KARAPARS, Gülhis Zeynep
Preparing product design students for the design of digital products provides a challenge for product design educators. This paper reports an experiment in a senior-year product design studio course. Students were assigned three projects with three different strategies based on the management and the structure of the design process. The analysis of observations on students’ design processes, semi-structured interviews with students, and the analysis of design solutions revealed that students mentally separate a product’s physical form and digital interface. Students reported time management as their biggest challenge for the design of digital products. Even though they experienced problems in their design process, they think interface design skills as a part of their professional requirements. These findings indicate a need to better address the design of digital products in product design curriculum in general and studio education in particular.
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Collaboration in design research: An analysis of co-authorship in 13 design research journals, 2000–2015
(Taylor & Francis, 2019) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Oğuz, Murat Can; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan; Oğuz, Murat Can
This paper utilizes social network analysis and multivariate statistical methods to quantitatively analyse co-authorship patterns between 2000 and 2015 in 13 influential design research journals. The results indicate that the importance and propensity of co-authorship is expanding in design research. Furthermore, the impact of an article, measured by year-adjusted citation counts, is significantly greater when it is co-authored. The structure of the co-authorship network is mostly comprised of small yet unconnected groups of authors, who seldom collaborate beyond a single article.
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Intra‐organizational user‐centred design practices: The impact of design research departments at design consultancies
(Wiley, 2019-12-18) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Thompson, J. A. A.; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
The user is a critical factor in design and innovation. Firms experiment with different approaches to involving the user in design processes, which results in new forms of intra- and extra-organizational collaboration. The establishment of in-house design research units within design consultancies is one such intra-organizational user-centred design practice that targets designer-researcher collaboration. This paper addresses this issue and reports on the findings from multiple case study research exploring the impact of in-house design research teams on designers' user knowledge construction. We utilized constructivist learning theory to assess major aspects of these intra-organizational user-centred design practices. Ethnographically informed field studies were conducted at six design consultancies representing three design fields (i.e., architecture, industrial design and interaction design) in the Northwestern United States. Three of the consultancies have design research departments and three do not. The findings indicate that in-house design research units play a role in designers' user knowledge construction via their results, processes and human resources. Among these, the active participation of designers in the research process was observed to have the largest impact because of its contribution to designers' contextual and collaborative learning about users.
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Riding a long green wave: interdisciplinary environmental sciences and studies in higher education
(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Johnson, E. W.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Frickel, S.; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan
What accounts for the remarkable growth of environmental sciences and studies (ESS) in US higher education over the past 50 years? This paper focuses on institutional characteristics to explain this 'long green wave' of expansion. Drawing on data from 1345 US higher-education institutions from 1980-2010, we employ three-level hierarchical models to assess institutional and state-level factors associated with the presence of environmental studies and sciences. Findings indicate that environmental studies majors are most likely to be present at liberal arts schools and in states more inclined to adopting environmentally friendly policies, and less likely to exist at schools with large minority enrollments. Environmental sciences majors are less likely to be present at schools with large female enrollments. Two case studies of early adopters highlight the role of faculty, rather than student activists, as change-agents pushing for the development of ESS on college campuses in the 1960s and 70s.
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Change in industrial designers’ jobs: The case of Turkey, 1984-2018
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-08-21) Kaygan, P.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
This paper examines the change in the forms of employment of industrial designers between 1984 and 2018 in Turkey. The empirical data come from the graduates of the four oldest industrial design departments in the country. Utilizing multiple sources, we collected longitudinal data on forms of employment and duration of jobs for a total of 1205 individuals. Drawing on this data, we present a descriptive analysis of the changing job patterns in in-house employment, self-employment, freelance work, academic jobs and part-time teaching jobs. Our findings show that throughout the three and a half decades (1) in-house employment remains the main form of employment, in which UX-focused jobs emerge as a recent and consistently increasing subcategory, (2) the percentage of self-employed job types dropped significantly, and this lacuna was filled by freelance jobs, and (3) there is a considerable increase in women's participation in industrial design jobs, particularly in in-house positions.
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Raising the responsible child: collaborative work in the use of activity trackers for children
(Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020-10-14) İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Epstein, D. A.; Chen, Y.; Industrial Design; OYGÜR İLHAN, Işil
Commercial activity trackers are increasingly being designed for children as young as 3 years old. However, we have limited understanding of family use practices around these trackers. To provide an overall view of how families naturally use activity trackers towards collaborative management of family health, we systematically identified 9 trackers designed for children available on 4 consumer electronics retailers. Our data is composed of 2,628 user reviews both from the consumer retailers (for the wearables) and mobile application stores (for the associated apps). Our findings indicate children's and parents' collaborative use of these technologies beyond health and wellness. Parents state that their children enjoy practicing independence and rewards while contributing to family health management and daily life requirements. Parents expect these devices to ease their life and to teach their children to become more responsible for their health, daily tasks, and schedule. However, the current designs give limited agency on child's side and require parents' active participation for wearable-app coordination. For these reasons, they do not fully address parents' expectations in decreasing their workload. On the other hand, they have the potential to facilitate family interaction with challenges structured around the data reported through trackers.

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