This document discusses creative design techniques such as shape borrowing and force fitting tools. It also covers ergonomic design principles and how measuring human anthropometrics can help designers create products that are comfortable and safe for people to use. Some examples provided include redesigning a book stand using an interesting object's shape, and ergonomic products like chairs that are designed to fit the human form.

1. Are you Creative?

5. Force Fitting Tool Using Objects which seem unrelated to the task or problem to create new possibilities/ connections. In your group, list down all the possible uses of a brick.

6. Art and Design Design: Shape Borrowing Technique Shape borrowing is an ideation technique which uses interesting shape/outline/form of an existing structure as a trigger point when designing.

7. Examples of Shape Borrowing Bird Nest Olympics Stadium

8. Examples of Shape Borrowing

9. Examples of Shape Borrowing

10. Examples of Shape Borrowing Shark

11. Examples of Shape Borrowing

12. Examples of Shape Borrowing Sofa

13. Design Task Using an object of your interest, redesign the book stand.

14. Think?? A product with great outlook is considered a good product? What other considerations/ areas must be considered so that the product is differentiated from the rest.

15. Design byErgonomics and Anthropometry

16. Ergonomic and Anthropometric Ergonomics is the scientific discipline that seeks to understand and improve human interactions with products, equipment, environments and systems. Designers must understand ergonomics so that products are comfortable and safe to be used.

17. Ergonomic and Anthropometric Anthropometric refers to the measurement of the human individual for the purposes of understanding human physical variation. Concern with the size and proportions of the human body.

18. Anthropometric Data

19. Which is an Ergonomic Product?

20. Examples of Ergonomic Product http://www.kitchenandtabletop.com/img/ikea_urban_chair.jpg

21. Video on Ergonomics

22. Examples of Ergonomic Product