Managing design data represents a double-edged sword for designers who are charged with creating innovative design concepts. On the one hand, design engineers need to capture and save the new product concepts that they create for ongoing and future development. On the other hand, however, working with existing data management tools can actually impede conceptual design activity. Because available data management approaches require conceptual designers to perform a range of manual steps—such as checking-in, checking-out, completing data cards, and saving various versions of concept files—they can disrupt creative flow and get in the way of evolving and refining new design ideas into viable product concepts. In a fast, hectic, and freeflowing collaborative conceptual development environment, a designer’s focus should remain fixed on developing innovative concepts instead of being continually disturbed by the need to perform frequent administrative, information entry, or data management tasks. Yet, designers involved with conceptual design still need to be able to easily find existing concepts for more detailed design, transparently ensure that conceptual design data is saved for future use, and efficiently review conceptual design data for archiving—thus, the double-edged sword.
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