Why Design Specifications are useful to Designers. What we need to include in a Design Specification.
Many manufacturers produce brochures that include a specification of the product they are selling.
Good examples are car manufacturers who provide customers with information about the dimensions and performance of their products. You will also get a lot of information from shops selling elecrtical goods, like computers, hi-fi systems and video recorders. This is usually based upon some research we have previously done. Specifications are extremely valuable when designing and making a product involves more that one person, for example a stylist and a production engineer. Often the design requirements of each group will conflict and create problems, for example a stylist may want to design an object with curved sides only to find the production engineer can only produce objects with curved ones.