This book deals with the contribution of the product
designer to the effective implementation of new
technologies. With various other motives,
technological changes play a determinant role in the
historical development process of product design.
Since they are products having various photographic
technologies adapted to a close product-user
relationship and accommodating elements mediating
this relationship, the subject is discussed with
specific emphasis on amateur photographic camera
designs. The research does not comprise a detailed
technical explanation of photographic cameras, but
rather an analysis of the functioning and certain
design values of some typical consumer oriented
camera designs having significant technical content;
and their relationship with the users and the technology.
To illustrate the subject matter, the literature of
radical technological changes is scrutinised together
with the literature of visualisation and photographic
technologies. The data are broadened by a field
study, planned for having outcomes both from the
designer s and the user s points of view.
designer to the effective implementation of new
technologies. With various other motives,
technological changes play a determinant role in the
historical development process of product design.
Since they are products having various photographic
technologies adapted to a close product-user
relationship and accommodating elements mediating
this relationship, the subject is discussed with
specific emphasis on amateur photographic camera
designs. The research does not comprise a detailed
technical explanation of photographic cameras, but
rather an analysis of the functioning and certain
design values of some typical consumer oriented
camera designs having significant technical content;
and their relationship with the users and the technology.
To illustrate the subject matter, the literature of
radical technological changes is scrutinised together
with the literature of visualisation and photographic
technologies. The data are broadened by a field
study, planned for having outcomes both from the
designer s and the user s points of view.