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Luis Carlos Paschoarelli José Carlos Plácido da Silva UNESP - Universidade do Estado de São Paulo Design and research in the third world: the structure of a model applied to the design of preschool furniture As opposed to the conditions existing in developed countries, where industrial design participates as a factor of economic and technologicaldevelopment, in the third world, given the social conditions of the majority of the population, research in this field should prioritise product usability. In this way, the development of a pre-school desk project ispresented, founded on scientific research and structured in four phases - formulationof the problem, ergonomic investigation, design requirements,and development - where, in addition to the technological and aesthetic innovation, the product's functional quality is quite satisfactorily achieved, in a model of Industrial Design research for the Third World. ← back | download 4.5 Mb pg484.zip