• Archives of design research
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.169-180
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• 2000

With the change of design environment, the aquisition and application of appropriate information are regarded as greatly important, especially in the product development process for the next generation. It will be important that aquired information be transformed and applied to design information. With this framework, features of design information and its application were studied in this paper. First, the interrelationship of design and information was analyzed. Second, effective methods to collect various design information were classified and several guidelines with which to apply these methods were suggested. Third, the role of design information in the rapid development of computer, information and internet technology was analyzed and several recommendations were suggested. Finally, the information database for trend analysis, based on computer and internet technology was developed and its application was studied in order to show an example of the collection and application of design information.