Software requirementsSoftware requirements for a system are the description of what the system should do, the service or services that it provides and the constraints on its operation. The IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology defines a requirement as: A condition or capability needed by a user to solve a problem or achieve an objective. A condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system or system component to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other formally imposed document.
Requirements traceabilityRequirements traceability is a sub-discipline of requirements management within software development and systems engineering. Traceability as a general term is defined by the IEEE Systems and Software Engineering Vocabulary as (1) the degree to which a relationship can be established between two or more products of the development process, especially products having a predecessor-successor or primary-subordinate relationship to one another; (2) the identification and documentation of derivation paths (upward) and allocation or flowdown paths (downward) of work products in the work product hierarchy; (3) the degree to which each element in a software development product establishes its reason for existing; and (4) discernible association among two or more logical entities, such as requirements, system elements, verifications, or tasks.
Designvignette|Chaise de Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1897. Le design, le stylisme ou la stylique est une activité de création souvent à vocation industrielle ou commerciale, pouvant s’orienter vers les milieux sociaux, politiques, scientifiques et environnementaux. Le but premier du design est d’inventer, d’améliorer ou de faciliter l’usage ou le processus d’un élément ayant à interagir avec un produit ou un service matériel ou virtuel.
Membrane synthétiquevignette|Schéma d'une membrane. Une membrane synthétique est une membrane agissant comme un filtre dans des procédés industriels ou des expériences biochimiques. Une membrane est une couche de matériau servant de filtre entre deux phases, imperméable à certaines particules, molécules ou substances dans certaines conditions. Certains composant peuvent traverser la membrane par le flux d'imprégnation, tandis que d'autres ne passent pas et s'accumulent dans le flux de retenue.
Strategic designStrategic design is the application of future-oriented design principles in order to increase an organization's innovative and competitive qualities. Its foundations lie in the analysis of external and internal trends and data, which enables design decisions to be made on the basis of facts rather than aesthetics or intuition. The discipline is mostly practiced by design agencies or by internal development departments. "Traditional definitions of design often focus on creating discrete solutions—be it a product, a building, or a service.
Multi-stage flash distillationMulti-stage flash distillation (MSF) is a water desalination process that distills sea water by flashing a portion of the water into steam in multiple stages of what are essentially countercurrent heat exchangers. Current MSF facilities may have as many as 30 stages. Multi-stage flash distillation plants produce about 26% of all desalinated water in the world, but almost all of new desalination plants currently use reverse osmosis due to much lower energy consumption.
Empathic designEmpathic design is a user-centered design approach that pays attention to the user's feelings toward a product. The empathic design process is sometimes mistakenly referred to as empathetic design. The foundation of empathic design is observation and the goal to identify latent customer needs in order to create products that the customers don't even know they desire, or, in some cases, solutions that customers have difficulty envisioning due to lack of familiarity with the possibilities offered by new technologies or because they are locked in a specific mindset.
Design thinkingLe design thinking (littéralement « penser le design »), en français démarche design ou conception créative, est une méthode de gestion de l'innovation élaborée à l'université Stanford aux États-Unis dans les années 1980 par Rolf Faste. Cette méthode, qui se veut une synthèse entre pensée analytique et pensée intuitive, relève du design collaboratif, pratique du design qui implique les usagers dans un processus de co-créativité.
Conception participativeLa conception participative, ou coconception, que l'on retrouve couramment sous le terme codesign, co-design et design participatif, est une méthode de travail qui implique l'utilisateur final, lors d'un processus de développement et de conception d'un produit ou d'un service. Il s'agit donc d'une méthode de conception centrée sur l'utilisateur où l'accent est mis sur le rôle actif des utilisateurs.
Design de produitsthumb|Fauteuils design Le design de produits est une conception d'objets usuels répondant à des fonctions au service de l'homme. Plusieurs établissements proposent aujourd'hui un DNMADE (anciennement BTS) design de produits. Design et marketing : Fondements et Méthodes, L'Harmattan, 2007, p.383 Jean-Jacques Urvoy, Sophie Sanchez, Le designer: De la conception à la mise en place du projet, Eyrolles, 2011, p.127 École Boulle, les ateliers et formations au design de produits École supérieure de Design des Lan
