Design Scalability; Rethinking Products' Traditional Scalable

By Iku Ohashi

The field of industrial design was founded on the principles of scale. Industrial designers find themselves in a completely unique context: designing within the "economies" of scale.
This thesis seeks a deeper understanding within ID by exploring the broad spectrum of scale, and scalability outside the industry. This expanded body of knowledge is a powerful tool to the product designer as it can be used to broaden our notion of scale, and allow us new ways to resolve scale related design issues. Design exploration in this thesis tackles the notion that a more efficient and dynamically designed product is one in which these traditionally static factors become variable in response to the ever changing user and environment.

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