• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.267-276
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• 2018

Leisure boat design requires a comprehensive approach combining emotion with engineering technology, and requires designers to constantly exchange information and cooperate with engineers during the design process. This study suggests a design process and design methods suitable for leisure boat design. The design process consists of five steps: understanding, exploring, analyzing, developing, and validating based on the designer's thinking process. Design methods were suggested to foster collaboration and communication between designers and engineers at each phase. This process and methods were applied to the hydrofoil-boat design and evaluated. The results suggest that the design methods promote cooperation and communication between the designer and the engineer and facilitate mutual understanding and trust.