'In touch' with consumers: Freeform® as a co-design tool for real-time concept modification

Design Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-26

  Sener, Bahar ^a   Van Rompuy, Tanya ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DIGITAL METHOD;

EID: 27644540057     PISSN: 14606925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/146069205789338360     Document Type: Review

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