Assignment 2 - Design
The site was down before and I was terrified that it was somehow due tomorrow (so I posted it here) - but it's due next week, Monday 22 September
Design a new mass customisation product design tool.
Building on the research you conducted for Assignment 1 and the material we have covered in class, develop an initial design for a computational system/tool to help people to customise products. You should identify the steps that someone will need to go through to customise their product and the technologies that you think will be useful for implementing these steps, e.g., rule-based systems, design grammars, parametric design systems, evolutionary design systems etc.
Report
Your report for this assignment should provide an overview of how your mass customisation tool will work and the technologies you would use to implement it. You should provide a step-by-step guide to the customisation process and highlight the opportunities for using generative design systems where you think it is appropriate.
You should give an assessment of what can and/or should be customised for the product group that you have selected and use this to develop the step-by-step process that your users will use to customise their selections.
You should then carefully consider the different generative design systems that we've been looking at in class and determine which are most appropriate for your application to mass customisation.
Your report for this assignment should be submitted via Ning as a blog entry.
Presentation
To describe the customisation process that you are proposing for users, you should prepare a single slide that illustrates the steps that your mass customisation tool will support. Avoid using lots of descriptive text, instead concentrate on providing a few key phrases and some good illustrations. You should be prepared to talk for just 5 minutes about your proposed mass customisation tool. In addition to the steps you will have illustrated on your slide, you should be prepared to give some technical information about the generative design systems that you have decided would be most appropriate.
You should upload your presentation slide as an image to the Ning web site as an image and tag the image with "presentation2". An album will be created to contain all of the slides uploaded with this tag that we will use in class for the presentations, so it is very important that you include the "presentation2" tag when you upload your image.
Assessment Criteria
The assessment of this assignment will be based on the proposal for your mass customisation tool provided in your report and presentation that you have thought carefully about how best to support the customisation process and how you can make best use of generative design systems in this process.
HD A proposal for a mass customisation tool that has been clearly defined and carefully thought through. A clear description of the mass customisation process and the steps through which users will engage with the tool. Applications of generative design systems in the customisation process have been identified, described and analysed.
CR A proposal for a mass customisation tool has been defined based on an existing system. The steps through which users will engage with the tool have been described. Some suggestions for the use of generative design systems have been provided but without much analysis.
F The proposed tool does not support mass customisation or incorporate generative design systems.
Design a new mass customisation product design tool.
Building on the research you conducted for Assignment 1 and the material we have covered in class, develop an initial design for a computational system/tool to help people to customise products. You should identify the steps that someone will need to go through to customise their product and the technologies that you think will be useful for implementing these steps, e.g., rule-based systems, design grammars, parametric design systems, evolutionary design systems etc.
Report
Your report for this assignment should provide an overview of how your mass customisation tool will work and the technologies you would use to implement it. You should provide a step-by-step guide to the customisation process and highlight the opportunities for using generative design systems where you think it is appropriate.
You should give an assessment of what can and/or should be customised for the product group that you have selected and use this to develop the step-by-step process that your users will use to customise their selections.
You should then carefully consider the different generative design systems that we've been looking at in class and determine which are most appropriate for your application to mass customisation.
Your report for this assignment should be submitted via Ning as a blog entry.
Presentation
To describe the customisation process that you are proposing for users, you should prepare a single slide that illustrates the steps that your mass customisation tool will support. Avoid using lots of descriptive text, instead concentrate on providing a few key phrases and some good illustrations. You should be prepared to talk for just 5 minutes about your proposed mass customisation tool. In addition to the steps you will have illustrated on your slide, you should be prepared to give some technical information about the generative design systems that you have decided would be most appropriate.
You should upload your presentation slide as an image to the Ning web site as an image and tag the image with "presentation2". An album will be created to contain all of the slides uploaded with this tag that we will use in class for the presentations, so it is very important that you include the "presentation2" tag when you upload your image.
Assessment Criteria
The assessment of this assignment will be based on the proposal for your mass customisation tool provided in your report and presentation that you have thought carefully about how best to support the customisation process and how you can make best use of generative design systems in this process.
HD A proposal for a mass customisation tool that has been clearly defined and carefully thought through. A clear description of the mass customisation process and the steps through which users will engage with the tool. Applications of generative design systems in the customisation process have been identified, described and analysed.
CR A proposal for a mass customisation tool has been defined based on an existing system. The steps through which users will engage with the tool have been described. Some suggestions for the use of generative design systems have been provided but without much analysis.
F The proposed tool does not support mass customisation or incorporate generative design systems.
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