Engineering design and industrial design

Abstract

Engineering designers and industrial designers are the main actors called to collaborate, within their jurisdiction, in the design of products/service through creative choices that define functions, structures and forms together with manufacturing processes. In spite of different cultures and practical approaches of the two categories of professionals, design accomplishes a common goal: development of new products and services. Each design process runs from a conceptualization phase and moves towards an embodiment phase, trying to meet the customers’ real needs, and at the same time to satisfy business requirements, in respect of health-, safety- and environmental constraints [32]. Obviously, it is necessary to distinguish between the end user and the industrial customer that have requirements that must be met differently.