Authors
Bradley Camburn, Kristin Wood
Publication date
2018/9/1
Source
Design Studies
Volume
58
Pages
63-88
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Do-It-Yourself (DIY) design lowers the entry barrier to innovation.
- Five DIY fabrication principles were extracted from the repository Instructables. com.
- Occurrence of these principles in the database was validated with several mechanisms.
- Ten case studies are presented in detail to elaborate the principles.
- Study results show positive correlation with principles and enhanced design outcome.
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) fabrication is the practice where the end user creates a product for personal use rather than commercial production. This paper reviews how DIY practitioners can produce useful artefacts with limited resources. Fabrication principles were extracted from the DIY design repository Instructables. com. A set of candidate principles was iteratively refined and converged to five unique principles. Case studies are presented that illustrate approaches for implementing each. A first empirical study verifies the …
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B Camburn, K Wood - Design Studies, 2018