Research in the early stages of the Industrial Design Process.

Abstract

The design of new products, no matter how basic, always involves a process; that starts from the recognition of an unsatisfied need, or capable of improving in some sense. The industrial design process involves planning and carrying out a complex set of activities, which vary according to the project and the design order to be developed; organized by stages or phases, according to the approach of some authors, always starting with the collection and analysis of the required information. The design has undergone changes, what a few years ago was a constant design experimentation has been combined with research, analyzing the problem in greater depth. The same one stopped being an intuitive and casual discipline, happening to be an investigative scientific discipline; The rigor of the Scientific Method is not so evident, but it is with the deserved demand to give duly grounded answers to design solutions. It is necessary to recognize that the designer faces problems, whose objective is to seek and find an optimal solution; This solution is not the product of chance, it is the product of the results of a process that the professional develops and that is directly related to the collection and management of information. This work aims to analyze the investigative action with the project of a designer, starting from authors who approach the investigation within the first stages of the industrial design process.