Graduating product designers and their attitudes to design responsibility: A survey

Birkett, Stacey; Lloyd, Peter and Garner, Steven (2008). Graduating product designers and their attitudes to design responsibility: A survey. In: 10th Engineering and Product Design Education Conference (E&PDE '08), 4-5 Sep 2008, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

Abstract

The notion of responsibility in designing is one that is becoming increasingly important, underlying significant areas of design activity. The research reported in this paper presents the results of a questionnaire study of 50 graduating product designers from 11 UK Universities. We find that students are focussed on environmental issues, have a very clear idea about where their responsibilities end for the products they design, but who display significant differences between the ideas about responsibility they espouse and their practice.

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