Study highlights significant design advances across floating offshore wind sector
The UK's renewable energy sector is well placed to take advantage of the expected boom in floating offshore wind technology, a new study suggests.
Sep 8, 2023
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The UK's renewable energy sector is well placed to take advantage of the expected boom in floating offshore wind technology, a new study suggests.
Sep 8, 2023
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A Perspective sheds light on why megaprojects take so long and cost so much—and what can be done to prevent the problem. Why did Boston's "Big Dig" building project go 19 billion dollars over budget and take nine years ...
Sep 6, 2023
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Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) is a label-free imaging technique that leverages the optical path length information in transparent samples to evaluate their refractive index distribution and thickness variations. Multispectral ...
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When Todd Howard, director and executive producer of Bethesda Game Studios, announced in June that the team's upcoming, highly anticipated game, "Starfield," would feature a galaxy of more than 1,000 planets, fans were beyond ...
Sep 1, 2023
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In manufacturing, a product's information must move across various systems in the production enterprise, from design to product support. This information flow is enabled by a family of standards called STEP (STandard for ...
Aug 31, 2023
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Almost a week after the Apple faithful collectively gasped at the first evidence that the iPhone's red "end call" button might soon be vacating its center position to take up residence one column to the right, it looks like ...
Aug 16, 2023
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These days, cars are computer centers on wheels. Today's vehicles can contain over 100 computers and millions of lines of software code. These computers are all networked together and can operate all aspects of your vehicle.
Aug 14, 2023
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Most people use voice assistant technologies like Alexa or Google Assistant for list making and quick weather updates. But imagine if these technologies could do much more—summarize doctor's appointments, remind someone ...
Aug 1, 2023
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Most people already know and appreciate the capabilities of smartphones. Now imagine the possibilities offered by smart spacesuits, uniforms and exercise clothes. The future of wearable technology has just received a big ...
Jul 26, 2023
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Temperatures around the world are soaring. Both California's Death Valley and China's Xinjiang region have seen temperatures climb above the 50℃ mark. A blistering heat wave is also sweeping across the Mediterranean, causing ...
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A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a designer.
Classically, the main areas of design were only painting, sculpture and architecture, which were understood as the major arts. The design of clothing, furniture and other common artifacts were left mostly to tradition or artisans specializing in hand making them.
With the increasing complexity of today’s society, and due to the needs of mass production where more time is usually associated with more cost, the production methods became more complex and with them the way designs and their production is created. The classical areas are now subdivided in smaller and more specialized domains of design (landscape design, urban design, exterior design, interior design, industrial design, furniture design, cloth design, and many more) according to the product designed or perhaps its means of production.
The education, experience and genetic blocks that form the base of a competent designer is normally similar no matter the area of specialization, only in a later stages of training and work will designer diverge to a specialized field. The methods of teaching or the program and theories followed vary according to schools and field of study. Today, a design team, no matter the scale of the equipment, is usually composed by a master designer (the head of the team) that will have the responsibility to take decisions about the way the creative process should evolve, and a number of technical designers (the hands of the team) specialized in diverse areas according to the product proposed. For more complex products, the team will also be composed of professionals from other areas like engineers, advertising specialists, and others as required. The relationships established between team members will vary according proposed product, the processes of production, the equipment available, or the theories followed during the idea development, but normally they are not too restrictive, giving an opportunity to everyone in the team to take a part in the creation process or at least to express an idea.
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