A Study on the Development of Design Information Elicitation Process based on Customer Needs

사용자 니즈의 디자인 정보 변환 프로세스 개발에 관한 연구

Customer needs are considered as being quite remarkable in product design. The elaborate fulfillment of them in the design solution is closely related to the success of a product. They, however, are generally collected and presented by marketers. Consequently those needs are difficult for designers to understand and therefore might not get fulfilled in the final product design. Here the goal of this study is set that the process of design information elicitation based on customer needs is developed as a guideline of utilizing them in design activity in effective manners. findings of this study can be summarized as follows: First, customer needs are expected to get interpreted into the designer-oriented language in the aspect of function and image of a product. Those interpreted needs play a role as a base for concept establishment and the development of it with the help of various techniques from the fold of statistics and systematic product development. Second, designer-oriented manner of understanding customer needs requires designers to take parts in from collecting to interpreting them for better design solution that fulfills them, which brings up a necessity that available techniques shouldn't be beyond understanding of designers and for the styling activity customer needs of image aspect should be interpreted and presented visually. In this study, those visual information is presented through the image maps and image information sheet. It is image information sheet that is suggested to contain visual and verbal information altogether such as the overall and major elements images expressing a specific image need and the correlation between them showing how much the elements image contributes to building the overall image.

사용자 니즈는 디자인 활동에서 매우 중요한 정보로서 활용된다. 그리고 이의 제품 디자인에서의 충실한 구현은 제품의 성공과도 밀접하게 연관되어 있다고 할 수 있다. 그러나 이러한 사용자 니즈는 일반적으로 마케터에 의해 수집되고, 그들의 언어로서 표현함으로써 디자이너는 이를 디자인 작업으로 신속하고 효율적으로 반영하는데 어려움을 갖게 되고, 따라서 이러한 니즈의 충실한 구현이 용이하게 이루어질 수 없게 된다. 본 연구는 바로 이러한 필요성에서 출발하게 된다. 즉, 본 연구에서는 효율적인 사용자 니즈 활용을 위한 가이드라인으로서 사용자 니즈의 디자인 정보 변환 프로세스를 개발하게 된다.