Expanding industrial designers' abilities for IT era

Abstract

The abilities of an industrial designer are said to be those of integrating sensibility, imagination, creativity, visualization, and coordination. This theory, has been analyzed based on some product design projects. These analyses have revealed that ideas are embodied after the verbal abstraction of images from little hints that occur in one's mind in everyday life, and that these ideas are embodied in illogical scenarios. Especially the implementation of computer graphics (CG) has been found to boost the effectiveness of visualization to collaborate with the other members in the design process. Since the onset of the era of network communication designers have just got down to the work of creating WWW homepage and content designs. The abilities such as editing and scenario writing should be required of the designers in the near future.