Master´s thesis deals with electro-designers addressing concept proposal by the Automation and drives division of Siemens company. Actual state in the company has been explored by SWOT analysis. By means of questionnaire investigation, main criteria according to which the electro-designers are abided by during the manufacturer selection, has been established. Forcefully to these criteria, the set of measures leading to the Siemens products position by the electro-designers improvement, has been proposed. By realization of the measures, outstanding relationships improvement will happen and thus also many new customers will be won.

The goal of this diploma's thesis is to create a design of a two stages amplifier working in a band reserved for the secondary surveillance radar at the frequency of 1090 MHz. Output power of the amplifier should be 20 W and efficiency should be as high as possible. Because of this the second stage is designed in class C. Contents of this diploma's thesis include a theoretical analysis, simulations of the amplifier parameters, comparison of the Ansys Designer and AWR Microwave Office simulation programs and design of both stages of the amplifier, followed by a comparison of the measured parameters with the simulations.

This thesis contains design of beamforming network designed for passive radar antennas. The first part contains theory of passive radars and beamforming networks. The next part implies design of beamforming network at the block digram level. Then are choosed circuits for amplitude and phase control, including the design of control communication. It follows by realization of IQ phase shifter and his automatic measurement. Based on this results is phase shifter adjusted and PCB of 2x2 beamforming network is designed. Last part includes design of control application (Matlab) and control program for STM32F407VG microcontroller.

Hannes Beckmann (1909-1977). Dessau - Prague - New York This PhD thesis is dedicated to an exceptional, though still forgotten personality, an artist of German descent, Hannes Beckmann |1909-1977|. A graduate of Germany's Bauhaus, he was one of the refugees fleeing Nazism to Czechoslovakia, and among many other achievements, he later became the director of the photography department of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Through his work, he fulfilled avant-garde ideas on the synthesis of artistic fields: he was a painter, stage designer, art theorist and pedagogue, but also a creator of abstract objects moving along the boundaries of minimalistic and kinetic constructions. His fate in life and created body of work began gaining a clearer form in the framework of research on visual artists, who found sanctuary in interwar Czechoslovakia from demagogic political systems. Until that time, Hannes Beckmann had been utterly unknown to Czech art history and elsewhere. This is seen in the absence of his name in Czech technical literature, but also because he was never mentioned even in publications published by the Bauhaus with which he had been involved for some time. There was only sketchy information on his pedagogical and artistic work in the area of Op-Art (optical art) from the 1960s to 1970s in the United...

In Sweden upper secondary school education is organised in programmes. One of these programmes is the Technology programme that covers five orientations, one of which is Design and Product Development. This thesis is based on the idea that a clearer link between upper secondary school and the demands of professional life in the area of product development is beneficial to both students and industry. Product development is performed in cross-functional teams were understanding of others competences is important. It is therefore argued that, in order to enhance both teaching and learning, interdisciplinary considerations need to be explored. In this thesis, we turn to engineers and industrial designers. The aim of the present study is to get professional actors’ views on knowledge and skills needed within the field of design and product development and to examine whether there are key areas that facilitate an interdisciplinary approach suitable to focus on for educational purpose. As artefacts play a central role in product development the informants’ views on different products/artefacts are also examined. This reasoning results in an a two-part overall research question (a) What thoughts do professional engineers and industrial designers express regarding necessary knowledge and skills, and (b) what relevance does this have for upper secondary school teaching of product development? This overall research question is examined through two sub- studies, both performed at the same time, one conducted as a semi- structured interview and the other using the repertory grid technique. Twelve engineers and industrial designers are interviewed. The first study examines the informants’ thoughts on knowledge and skills required in their work. The same informants’ interpretations and valuations of artefacts are examined in the second sub-study. In sub-study 1 two topics of significance to the informants are identified. These topics are: [1] To act within the team (Figure 4). The ability to navigate and position oneself within a team is, according to the interviewees, a necessary skill in design and product development work. Its character can be described as including specific vocational knowledge and skills as well as issues of general and interdisciplinary nature as collaborating, compromising, communicating, and leadership. The second topic [2], to CAD (Figure 4) includes both skills with CAD software and the ability to understand relationships between a CAD model on screen and the final product. The third topic [3] - a valuation of artefacts - is the outcome of sub- study 2 (Figure 4). This topic was found interesting and further analysed, resulting in the development of a comparison procedure. The result demonstrates how the interviewees interpret and discuss artefacts’ functionality linked to cultural values. These three topics are found to be relevant for technology education at upper secondary school level geared towards design and product development to explore. To act within the team can inspire the development of activities in which project and teamwork are in focus. The purpose of the CAD model in product development is to visualise a product that does not yet exist. To CAD highlights the complexity of this visualisation ability. In the educational context the students can train this ability by developing digital models into physical models or prototypes. Valuations of artefacts, the interviewees associate artefacts’ functionality with certain characteristics. In education students should learn that we are not neutral in our relations to products and other artefacts. In conclusion, a need for teachers to discuss artefacts from different perspectives such as sustainability, usability, identity and so on is also pointed out. / <p>QC 20150212</p>

The lack of synergy between design and marketing departments can result in less innovative products which can lead to less customer satisfaction. This problem has affected the perfume and cosmetic industry as well, which is considered to be an industry with high competitiveness but also a high innovation rate. The purpose with this study is to understand how consumers' purchase intention can be affected by the characteristics that appear in each collaboration pattern, marketing lead, design lead and co-branding, in order to contribute to a more effective cooperation between external design and marketing in the perfume and cosmetic industry. The study has been based on two theories and one previous research. The theories are Kellers (1993) Consumer Based Brand Equity and Arnoulds and Thompsons (2005) Consumer Identity Project based on the Consumer Culture Theory. The previous research on which this study is based is Hemonnet-Goujots Abecassis-Moedas' &amp; Manceaus (2020) “When external design and marketing collaborate to develop new products: A typology of patterns”. The study has been based on a qualitative research method with a deductive and a hermeneutic approach. The results showed that consumers' purchase intention is affected by brand recognition in products with a high brand consistency. In addition, consumers can be affected by the brand image and the non-product-related attributes together with the symbolic benefits of products with a high rate of innovation and thus of products where a star-based designer is involved. The Consumer's Identity Project is something that always affects the purchase intention, regardless of the characteristics of the product. The information that the study contributes with can be used by companies with external design and marketing in a strategic way to choose which collaboration pattern they want to work with. / Bristen på synergi mellan design och marknadsföring kan resultera i mindre innovativa produkter, som i sin tur leder till mindre kundnöjdhet. Denna problematik har inte minst påverkat parfym- och kosmetikabranschen som anses vara en bransch med hög konkurrenskraft och med hög innovationstakt. Syftet med studien är att förstå hur konsumenternas köpintention kan påverkas av kännetecken som förekommer i respektive samarbetsmönster, marketing lead, design lead och co-branding. Detta för att bidra till ett mer effektivt samarbete mellan extern design och marknadsföring. Studien har utgått från två teorier och en tidigare forskning. Teorierna är Kellers (1993) kundbaserat varumärkeskapital (Costumer Based Brand Equity) och Arnould &amp; Thompsons (2005) konsuments identitetsprojekt (Consumer Identity Project) utifrån konsumentkulturteorin (Consumer Culture Theory). Den tidigare forskningen som denna studie har grundat sig på är Hemonnet-Goujots, Abecassis-Moedas &amp; Manceaus (2020) “When external design and marketing collaborate to develop new products: A typology of patterns”. Studien har utgått från en kvalitativ forskningsmetod med en deduktiv ansats samt ett hermeneutiskt synsätt. Resultatet visade att konsumenternas köpintention påverkas av varumärkesigenkänning vid produkter med en hög varumärkeskonsistens. Därtill kan konsumenter påverkas av varumärkesbild och de icke-produktrelaterade attributen i samband med de symboliska fördelarna vid produkter med en hög innovationstakt och därmed vid produkter där en stjärndesigner är inblandad. Konsumentens identitetsprojekt är något som alltid påverkar köpintentionen oberoende på vilka kännetecken produkten förekommer med. Informationen som studien bidrar med kan utnyttjas av företag med extern design och marknadsföring för att på ett strategiskt sätt välja vilket samarbetsmönster de vill arbeta med.

Automatisering av testprocesser är viktigt eftersom manuella tester är komplicerade och tidskrävande. Testarbetet effektiviseras och kvaliteten kan höjas genom att automatisera testprocesserna. Arbetet som beskrivs i det här examensarbetet har utförts på Phoniro AB i Halmstad och syftet med projektet är att identifiera och konstruera en helautomatiserad lösning för skanningen av NFC-taggar och QR-koder. I arbetet konstrueras en mekanisk testrigg som är en lämplig lösning baserat på framtagna krav. För att välja den mest lämpliga mjukvaru- och hårdvaruplattformen för testriggen utifrån kraven användes utvärderingsmatriser. Testriggen består av tre delar, en 3D-modell av testriggen, ett kretskort som är testriggens kontroller och mjukvarudel för att programmera testriggen och integrera den med företagets testramverk. Därefter har testriggen byggts upp, alla delar kopplats ihop och programmerats för att testas mot de krav som ställts upp. Testriggen som har tagits fram är en prototyp som har en stor utvecklingspotential med tanke på framtida utveckling / Automation of test processes is essential because manual tests are complicated and time-consuming. Automating the test processes makes the test work more efficient and increases quality. The work described in this diploma thesis was performed at Phoniro AB in Halmstad, and the purpose of the project is to identify and construct a fully automated solution for the scanning of NFC tags and QR codes. The report describes a design that meets the requirements and needs established for the development models used in the project. A mechanical test rig was constructed as a suitable solution, based on developed requirements during the project. Evaluation matrices were used to select the most suitable software and hardware platforms for the test rig based on the project needs. The test rig consists of a 3D-model, a circuit board, and a software component to program the test rig and integrate it with Phoniro’s test framework. The test rig developed is a prototype with excellent potential for future development.

Целью данной работы является сравнительный анализ инструментальных сред, с помощью которых можно конструировать веб-сайты. В ходе выполнения поставленной задачи предложены оригинальные комплексные критерии сравнения систем, основанные на поддержке средой SEO-оптимизации и на трудоемкости разработки в среде. Создан веб-сайт с одинаковым функционалом (интернет-магазин) в разных инструментальных средах для практического подтверждения теоретических выводов. / The purpose of this work is a comparative analysis of software tools which can help you in designing websites. In the course of accomplishing the task, the original set of criteria for comparing tools has been proposed. This set was based on the support of SEO optimization and on the development process complexity. A website with the same functionality (online store) had been created with different tools implementing for the sake of practical confirmation of theoretical conclusions.

A short film about how to design informality in the city. By comparing the chaotic Lagos with the orderly Stockholm the film rethinks the role of the designer and shows that planning as a sphere of building consistently destroys lived space. It illuminates the tension between the orderly and the chaotic, the ideal and reality.

Dans un contexte de crise environnementale et civilisationnelle, les approches sociétales des disciplines du design dénotent l’importance des recherches en design pour une pensée écologique et écosystémique du monde, au travers de la notion de coercition par des dispositifs. Que la cible soit l’usager, le consommateur, le citoyen, le designer lui-même ou les disciplines du design, des stratégies agissant dans le sens d’une émancipation, d’une libération, d’un dé-assujettissement, d’un soulèvement des individus peuvent se percevoir au travers de nouvelles visions, de nouvelles utopies, de chartes et de manifestes. Or, les résultats escomptés, tant sur nos écosystèmes que sur les comportements individuels et collectifs demeurent limités. Toute tentative de régulation des flux de production et de consommation se heurte aux enjeux contemporains d’un capitalisme se renouvelant dans l’accaparement et la marchandisation des critiques qui lui sont destinées. La composante destructrice de ce capitalisme, sur lequel le design s’est appuyé jusqu’à présent, semble corrélée aux comportements consuméristes se catalysant dans l’affirmation d’un sujet individuel, consommateur de ressources. Afin de masquer la terreur fondamentale de sa subjectivité nue, l’individu est devenu écophage dans la mesure où il renouvèle sa condition de sujet individualisé en devenant consommateur de subjectivations. Incidemment, la singularité promise par l’accès aux désirs d’émancipation individuelle s’est transformée en coercition : l’individualisation s’est mutée en servitude volontaire selon un processus égophage. Le système mortifère de ces deux phénomènes phagiques est au cœur du territoire de la thèse qui, proposant de saisir la problématique à partir d’un changement de paradigme de l’individu au travers de son processus d’individuation, offre des pistes de solutions pour le design. Ainsi, le design qui a accompagné, promu et esthétisé le modèle destructeur du consumérisme, doit envisager aujourd’hui une remise en question de son rôle sociétal. Mais pour expérimenter des voies divergentes qui changent nos manières de concevoir le monde, il doit travailler sur l’entendement de l’individu lui-même sur ce monde. Rendre le monde habitable, soit repenser une habitabilité du monde, se révèle être aussi une position coloniale de l’humanité privant l’humanité de réflexions sur son rapport de dépendance au monde. Dans ce nouveau cadre, le rôle d’un design sentinelle peut s’appuyer sur trois stratégies entrevues dans les recherches et pratiques actuelles : 1) une résistance aux dispositifs en évaluant les contraintes sociétales aux dispositifs ; 2) une pratique discrète pour se soustraire au mercantilisme ; 3) une objectivation des individus. Dès lors, le design doit provoquer un changement de paradigme de l’individu, au travers de l’individuation. La relecture du proto design, du design contemporain, de la philosophie et de la critique esthétique soutient l'hypothèse que l’individuation soulève les enjeux d'un design sociétal en révélant, avec l’aide de la pensée complexe, des dispositifs à l'œuvre sur l'individu dont le dénominateur commun est la dialectique sujet/objet. Cette remise en cause implique une décolonisation de la pensée pour une nouvelle réflexion de son rapport de dépendance au monde, autrement que par des processus de subjectivation qui la stipulent. L’habilitation de l’humain à modifier et à détruire selon ses désirs l’environnement est-elle encore viable ? De fait, cette dépendance à la dialectique sujet/objet devrait s’inverser par une ouverture dialogique permettant au design de transition de muter vers une transition du design, le design devant se transformer face aux dispositifs qui le contraignent. Avec la réalisation de contre-dispositifs individuationnistes basés sur l’objectivation, de nouvelles vertus – telles que la reconnaissance et la considération – pourraient favoriser un nouveau rapport objectivé de l’individu. Dans ce cadre, le positionnement traditionnel du design éviterait les dispositifs selon une nouvelle disposition transversale, ce qui permettrait non seulement d’échapper mais aussi de montrer ces dispositifs. Les facteurs d’émancipation de l’individuation – tels que critique, objectivation, actualité et révolte – sont à même d’émanciper un design vecteur d’individuation et de transformation de l’individu. Le design individuationniste pourrait alors adopter une nouvelle posture a-morale en engageant un processus d’objectivation pour devenir un design non plus social mais sociétal. Afin de déjouer ce système écophagie/égophagie, la thèse propose un changement de paradigme de l'individu et de sa relation au bien commun, en envisageant des nouvelles vertus de transcendance à travers le concept de probriété, dérivé de facteurs de natalité, de considération et de reconnaissance. De la substitution de l’individuation à l’individualisation émerge une nouvelle téléologie. Axée sur une pédagogie de la déconstruction des dispositifs, cette nouvelle vision du design permettrait d’enseigner les conditions ontologiques et épistémologiques qui l’ont vu naître. Avec une discipline individuationniste du design, décolonisée de l’économie, se tisse une pensée de l'habitabilité et de l'appropriation du monde qui reconnait et réconcilie la finitude de la terre et de l'humain. / In a context of environmental and civilizational crisis, the societal approaches found in design disciplines point to the importance of design research for an ecological and ecosystemic way of thinking about the world, through the notion of coercion by apparatus. Whether the target is the user, the consumer, the citizen, the designer herself or the design disciplines, strategies to emancipate, liberate, de-subjugate and uplift individuals can be seen in new visions, utopias, charters, and manifestos. Yet the expected results, both on our ecosystems and on individual and collective behavior, remain limited. Any attempt to regulate production and consumption flows comes up against the contemporary challenges posed by a capitalism that is renewing itself by monopolizing and commodifying the criticisms it receives. The destructive component of this capitalism, on which design has hitherto relied, seems to be correlated with consumerist behavior catalyzed by the assertion of an individual, resource-consuming subject. In order to mask the fundamental terror of its naked subjectivity, the individual has become an ecophagus insofar as it renews its condition as an individualized subject by becoming a consumer of subjectivations. Incidentally, the singularity promised by access to the desires of individual emancipation has been transformed into coercion: individualization has mutated into voluntary servitude through a process of egophagy. The mortifying system of these two phagic phenomena lies at the heart of the thesis, which proposes to grasp the problem from the point of view of a paradigm shift of the individual through its individuation process, offering possible solutions for design. Thus, design, which has accompanied, promoted and aestheticized the destructive model of consumerism, must today consider questioning its societal role. But to experiment with different ways of thinking about the world, we need to work on our own understanding of the world. Making the world habitable, i.e. rethinking the world's habitability, is also proving to be a colonial position for humanity, depriving it of the opportunity to reflect on its dependent relationship with the world. Within this new framework, the role of sentinel design can be based on three strategies identified in current research and practice: 1) resistance to apparatus by assessing societal constraints on them; 2) discreet practice to avoid commercialism; 3) objectification of individuals. From then on, design must provoke a paradigm shift in the individual, through individuation. A re-reading of proto-design, contemporary design, philosophy and aesthetic criticism supports the hypothesis that individuation raises the stakes of societal design by revealing, with the help of complex thinking, apparatus at work on the individual whose common denominator is the subject/object dialectic. This questioning implies a decolonization of thought, for a new reflection on its relationship of dependence to the world, other than through the subjectivation processes that stipulate it. Is human empowerment to modify and destroy the environment at will still viable? In fact, this dependence on the subject/object dialectic should be reversed by a dialogical opening that enables transitional design to mutate into a transition of design, with design transforming itself in the face of the apparatus that constrain it. With the realization of individuationist counter-apparatus based on objectification, new virtues - such as recognition and consideration - could foster a new objectified relationship of the individual. In this framework, the traditional positioning of design would avoid apparatus in a new, transversal way, allowing these apparatus to be not only escaped, but also shown. The emancipatory factors of individuation - such as critique, objectification, actuality, and revolt - are capable of emancipating design as a vector of individuation and transformation of the individual. Individuationist design could then adopt a new, a-moral stance, engaging in a process of objectification to become not social but societal design. In order to outmaneuver this ecophagy/egophagy system, this thesis proposes a paradigm shift of the individual and its relationship to the common good, by envisaging new virtues of transcendence through the concept of proberty, derived from factors of natality, consideration and recognition. A new teleology emerges from the substitution of individuation for individualization. Based on a pedagogy of apparatus deconstruction, this new vision of design would teach the ontological and epistemological conditions that saw its birth. With an individuationist discipline of design, a design auctor, decolonized from the economy, weaves a way of thinking habitability and appropriation of the world that recognizes and reconciles the finitude of the earth and the human.