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Designer as integrator: reality or rhetoric?

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CONTRIBUTORS:
  Author Bohemia, Erik (Loughborough University)
JOURNAL:
  The Design Journal, 5(2), 23 - 34.
YEAR: 2002
PUB TYPE: Journal Article
SUBJECT(S): Industrial Design
DISCIPLINE: No discipline assigned
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LANGUAGE: English
PUB ID: 103-388-850 (Last edited on 2006/07/31 17:14:20 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
The literature suggests that internal and external product integration are key elements that facilitate a successful product development outcome. It also suggests that the industrial designer is well placed to be an integrating force within organisations. However, do organisations use industrial designers as integrators of various functions or do they use industrial designers for other reasons? The results from a survey conducted with Australian manufacturing organisations indicate that these organisations perceive the role as 'an integrator of various functions' as being the least important role performed by industrial designers. This suggests that the necessity of industrial designers to perform in the role of integrator may reflect rhetoric generated from within the design literature rather than organisational reality.
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