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Thesis Chapters by Ümit Bayırlı

PhD Thesis, 2020

Design process is an iterative activity that embodies research and planning, idea generation, eva... more Design process is an iterative activity that embodies research and planning, idea generation, evaluation and refinement, and finalization phases. Among these, idea generation is evaluated as having the highest impact on the quality of the final design solution since it is the phase that requires the generation of many (quantity), various (variety) and novel (novelty) ideas that will be further developed and resulted as the final product in the following phases of the design process. For the purpose of guiding and supporting designers in the design process and especially idea generation, various design methods and tools have been developed. However, these methods and tools are being criticized for 1) being ineffective in enhancing quantity, variety and novelty of the generated ideas, 2) not being experimentally tested by the researchers and 3) not being supported with illogical thinking, which is one of the essences of creative thinking.
This thesis aims to identify the needs of the idea generation process and offer a strategy for design students in order to foster the outcomes of the idea generation process. For this purpose, a mixed method research was conducted. The needs of the idea generation process were identified through observation and peer debriefing, a design tool (Fictionation) that integrates design fiction into idea generation was created and further developed through a pilot study, and workshops that adopt a quasi-experimental research model was conducted. The findings were evaluated by using the assessment technique that was developed within this thesis and interviews. The results have shown that the Fictionation tool is promising in terms of fostering the outcomes of the idea generation process by increasing quantity, variety and novelty of the generated ideas and achieving an efficient learning and teaching environment within design education.

Master's Thesis, 2015

Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year t... more Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year to initiate students to the theory, practice and communication of design and to lay a basis on which more advanced and specialized knowledge will be gathered throughout the rest of their design education and careers. However, the course's results, influence in design education and methods of conduct receives many criticisms from students, educators, designers and researchers. Even though the course plays a founding role in design education and is criticized for not being successful, there are very few studies on how this course should be formulated or updated. For this reason, a study is conducted in two stages with the students and instructors of METU Department of ID in order to assess basic design education within the scope of this department. The results of the fieldwork are examined in consideration of the criticisms found in literature to determine the major problems of this course and to offer suggestions for improvement.

Basılan Konferans Bildirileri by Ümit Bayırlı

Proceedings of Arctheo ’21 XV. International Theory and History of Architecture Conference , 2021

Basic design can be evaluated as an introductory course to architectural and design education by ... more Basic design can be evaluated as an introductory course to architectural and design education by serving as a common ground where field specific knowledge and skills would be founded on. It is the course where students are encountered with the phenomenon of design. Design based disciplines are divided into subfields such as industrial design, graphic design, interior design, etc. because of being a comprehensive field. Furthermore, disciplines such as architecture, city and regional planning and landscape architecture also concerns with design issues. Despite these disciplines generate different outputs in terms of scale and scope, their education contains similar basic design courses focusing mainly on the understanding of common design principles. Being a researcher and instructor who teach basic design to the departments of industrial design, architecture and city and regional planning, many similarities and differences have been observed. Presenting these similarities and differences and expressing the perspectives of different disciplines to basic design education would be valuable in terms of the transfer of knowledge. Therefore, this paper serves as an introduction and comparison of the approaches, projects and syllabus of the basic design course within the departments of industrial design, architecture and city and regional planning. The deductions and presentations of this paper might serve as an introduction for the instructors in terms of seeing how other disciplines approach to basic design and might enable them to take credit for enhancing their basic design course.

Proceedings of IArchSAS 1st International Architectural Sciences and Application Symposium , 2021

The evaluation of a building by the user starts with the outer appearance that occurs at the very... more The evaluation of a building by the user starts with the outer appearance that occurs at the very beginning of the first impression. Even though the user evaluates the building by using adjectives, there are many important notions in the background of these adjectives such as, visual balance, composition, proportion, angles, relation and integrity of the elements. These notions are one of the acquisitions that are tried to be brought to the students in the basic design studios of the first year of architectural education. In that way, students have the opportunity to learn design element that are associated with the alphabet of design, and design principles and composition that are associated with the grammar of design in order to make a sentence and write a story in their further education. In the architecture and design-based disciplines, composition refers to the relations of the elements that The elements that make no sense when they are presented on their own, can make sense with their relations, positions, sizes, angles, in brief with the composition that they constitute. The concept of composition is generally taught by using cardboard based geometrical shapes that are cut into different shapes and sizes within the architectural and design education. The compositions created by the students are criticized by the instructors. In that way students have the opportunity to see what is right and wrong done both by themselves and their fellows. However, studies show that students have problems in transferring their basic design knowledge that were leant by abstract compositions to the practical design problems in further educational years. The aim of this study is to bring a new perspective into basic design education by working on the geometric analysis of concrete examples instead of abstract exercises for the purpose of transferring composition concept to the students. In that sense, the basic design studio of the Department of Architecture of the Pamukkale University constitutes the scope of the study. The findings show that the geometric analysis work carried out by the students in terms of providing the understanding of the design elements and their relations with each other, the change of the students' perspectives on the buildings, the development of their observation skills. Furthermore, the Miro platform used, was found useful in terms of the opportunity it created to work together remotely, its usefulness and the opportunity to examine other works.

UTAK 2020 Dördüncü Ulusal Tasarım Araştırmaları Konferansı: Tasarım ve Öngörü Bildiri Kitabı, 2021

Ürün geliştirme süreci içerisinde fikir geliştirme aşaması, sürecin geri kalanına ve son ürüne ol... more Ürün geliştirme süreci içerisinde fikir geliştirme aşaması, sürecin geri kalanına ve son ürüne olan etkisi bakımından kritik öneme sahiptir. Bu aşamada tasarımcılardan olabildiğince fazla sayıda, yenilikçi ve çeşitlilik sunan fikirler geliştirmeleri beklenir. Bu beklentiyi karşılamak ve özellikle tasarım öğrencilerine destek olmak amacıyla pek çok fikir geliştirme yöntemi ve aracı geliştirilmiştir. Bu yöntem ve araçlar kullanılabilirlik, uygulanabilirlik ve etkileri bakımından test edilmelidirler. Ancak, geliştirilen bu yöntem ve araçların, fikir geliştirme aşamasına ve
ortaya çıkan fikirlere olan etkisini nicel yöntemlerle inceleyen tekniklere literatürde rastlanmamaktadır. Bu konuda literatürde bulunan tek teknik Shah ve diğerlerine (2003) ait olup onun da kusurları bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışma var olan kusurları gideren ve daha sağlıklı sonuçlara
ulaşma imkânı veren bir ölçüm tekniği sunmaktadır. Önerilen ölçüm tekniği, fikir geliştirme aşamasının başarısını hem sınıf genelinde hem de öğrenci özelinde ölçmeye ve farklı fikir geliştirme yöntemlerinin etkilerini karşılaştırmalı olarak çözümlemeye olanak sağlamaktadır.

Papers by Ümit Bayırlı

The Design Journal

The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics.... more The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics. As one of the most significant artefacts associated with characters and pareidolia, cars and car faces are the subject of the study. Previous studies state that car faces are likened to animal and human faces, and therefore personal characteristics are attributed to them. However, they have fallen short in identifying design languages that cause cars to be perceived as such. In that sense, this study presents a structural analysis of 27 automobile faces in which patterns were identified and the resulting design languages were compared with the manufacturers’ definitions. The results show a correlation between rounded headlights and flattened grills with a plain character, and inclined quadrilateral or triangular headlights, bulky grills, and cut lamps with a dynamic and confident character. Furthermore, design trends for car faces from the 2000s to the 2020s were presented.

Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year t... more Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year to initiate students to the theory, practice and communication of design and to lay a basis on which more advanced and specialized knowledge will be gathered throughout the rest of their design education and careers. However, the course's results, influence in design education and methods of conduct receives many criticisms from students, educators, designers and researchers. Even though the course plays a founding role in design education and is criticized for not being successful, there are very few studies on how this course should be formulated or updated. For this reason, a study is conducted in two stages with the students and instructors of METU Department of ID in order to assess basic design education within the scope of this department. The results of the fieldwork are examined in consideration of the criticisms found in literature to determine the major problems of this course and to offer suggestions for improvement

DergiPark (Istanbul University), Dec 6, 2021

Emblems and logos, which are the most significant factors of corporate identity, play a role to p... more Emblems and logos, which are the most significant factors of corporate identity, play a role to promote the organization's character, products, services and to increase the organization's competitiveness and brand value. The results of the related studies argue that there is a major impact of fonts, colors, elements and shapes used in emblems and logos on users' perception. As the result of the literature review conducted within this context, the lack of studies examining the font, color, shape and context elements used in university logos in Turkey has been identified and the emblems and thus the logos of 200 universities in Turkey constitute the scope of the study. The aim of the study is to find out general tendencies and current trends and to form a base for related future studies by analyzing the emblems and logos in terms of form, color, and context. The general survey model was used as the data collection method and emblems and logos were grouped using content analysis and thematic coding. Additionally, the classifications of Çeken and Aybay (2021) and Özsoy, Tuncay and Uğur (2017) were used to analyze the elements of emblems and logos. In the light of the findings, emblems and logos in free form, consisting of one or two colors and containing symbolic and/or typographic elements are recommended for newly established universities in order to follow current design trends.

Springer eBooks, 2022

Fictionation is a design tool developed as part of an ongoing PhD research,for supporting design ... more Fictionation is a design tool developed as part of an ongoing PhD research,for supporting design students in their idea generation process. This paperdescribes a study in which the Fictionation design tool has been pilot testedin an Interactive Prototyping elective undergraduate course with industrial designstudents. The aim was to encourage design divergence, by inviting studentsinto a fictional world where restrictive considerations of the design process donot exist for them. The study was carried out with thirteen students using thedesign tool in the idea generation phase of their projects. The submissions wereanalyzed for their visual contents. The results show that students were able todiverge in their design exploration, offering variety and novelty in their designideas

UTAK 2020 Dördüncü Ulusal Tasarım Araştırmaları Konferansı, 8 - 10 Eylül 2020, Dec 1, 2020

Ürün geliştirme süreci içerisinde fikir geliştirme aşaması, sürecin geri kalanına ve son ürüne ol... more Ürün geliştirme süreci içerisinde fikir geliştirme aşaması, sürecin geri kalanına ve son ürüne olan etkisi bakımından kritik öneme sahiptir. Bu aşamada tasarımcılardan olabildiğince fazla sayıda, yenilikçi ve çeşitlilik sunan fikirler geliştirmeleri beklenir. Bu beklentiyi karşılamak ve özellikle tasarım öğrencilerine destek olmak amacıyla pek çok fikir geliştirme yöntemi ve aracı geliştirilmiştir. Bu yöntem ve araçlar kullanılabilirlik, uygulanabilirlik ve etkileri bakımından test edilmelidirler. Ancak, geliştirilen bu yöntem ve araçların, fikir geliştirme aşamasına ve ortaya çıkan fikirlere olan etkisini nicel yöntemlerle inceleyen tekniklere literatürde rastlanmamaktadır. Bu konuda literatürde bulunan tek teknik Shah, Vargas-Hernandez ve Smith’e (2003) ait olup onun da kusurları bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışma var olan kusurları gideren ve daha sağlıklı sonuçlara ulaşma imkânı veren bir ölçüm tekniği sunmaktadır. Önerilen ölçüm tekniği, fikir geliştirme aşamasının başarısını hem sınıf genelinde hem de öğrenci özelinde ölçmeye ve farklı fikir geliştirme yöntemlerinin etkilerini karşılaştırmalı olarak çözümlemeye olanak sağlamaktadır

The Design Journal, 2023

The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics.... more The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics. As one of the most significant artefacts associated with characters and pareidolia, cars and car faces are the subject of the study. Previous studies state that car faces are likened to animal and human faces, and therefore personal characteristics are attributed to them. However, they have fallen short in identifying design languages that cause cars to be perceived as such. In that sense, this study presents a structural analysis of 27 automobile faces in which patterns were identified and the resulting design languages were compared with the manufacturers’ definitions. The results show a correlation between rounded headlights and flattened grills with a plain character, and inclined quadrilateral or triangular headlights, bulky grills, and cut lamps with a dynamic and confident character. Furthermore, design trends for car faces from the 2000s to the 2020s were presented.

Sanat&Tasarım Dergisi, 2022

TR | Kurumsal kimlik kavramının en önemli öğelerinden olan amblem ve logolar, ait olduğu kuruluşu... more TR | Kurumsal kimlik kavramının en önemli öğelerinden olan amblem ve logolar, ait olduğu kuruluşun karakterini, ürünlerini, verilen hizmetleri tanıtan, marka değerini, rekabet gücünü artıran ve iletişim sağlayan bir rol üstlenirler. Bu hususta yapılan çalışmalarda amblem ve logolarda kullanılan yazı tiplerinin, renklerin, kullanılan unsurların ve şekillerin kullanıcı algısı üzerinde büyük etkiye sahip olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Yapılan literatür taraması sonucunda Türkiye’deki üniversite logolarında kullanılan yazı tipi, renk, şekil ve bağlam unsurlarını inceleyen çalışmaların eksikliği tespit edilmiş ve çalışmanın kapsamını da Türkiye’de aktif olarak faaliyet gösteren 200 adet üniversitenin amblem ve logoları oluşturmuştur. Çalışmanın amacı Türkiye’deki üniversite amblem ve logolarının şekil, renk ve bağlam açısından incelenerek genel ve güncel eğilimleri ortaya çıkarmak ve gelecekte bu konu ile ilgili yapılacak diğer çalışmalara altlık teşkil etmesini sağlamaktır. Çalışmada veri toplama yöntemi olarak genel tarama modeli kullanılmış, amblem ve logolar içerik analizi ve tematik kodlama kullanılarak gruplandırılmıştır. Buna ek olarak amblem ve logolarda bulunan unsurlar bağlam açısından incelenirken Çeken ve Aybay’ın (2021) ve Özsoy, Tuncay ve Uğur’un (2017) kullandığı sınıflandırmalardan yararlanılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular ışığında, serbest şekle sahip, tek veya iki renkten oluşan ve sembolik ve/ya tipografik öğeler barındıran amblem ve logolar güncel tasarım eğilimlerini takip etmek açısından yeni kurulacak üniversiteler için tavsiye niteliği oluşturmaktadır.
EN | Emblems and logos, which are the most significant factors of corporate identity, play a role to promote the organization's character, products, services and to increase the organization's competitiveness and brand value. The results of the related studies argue that there is a major impact of fonts, colors, elements and shapes used in emblems and logos on users' perception. As the result of the literature review conducted within this context, the lack of studies examining the font, color, shape and context elements used in university logos in Turkey has been identified and the emblems and thus the logos of 200 universities in Turkey constitute the scope of the study. The aim of the study is to find out general tendencies and current trends and to form a base for related future studies by analyzing the emblems and logos in terms of form, color, and context. The general survey model was used as the data collection method and emblems and logos were grouped using content analysis and thematic coding. Additionally, the classifications of Çeken and Aybay (2021) and Özsoy, Tuncay and Uğur (2017) were used to analyze the elements of emblems and logos. In the light of the findings, emblems and logos in free form, consisting of one or two colors and containing symbolic and/or typographic elements are recommended for newly established universities in order to follow current design trends.

Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2022

This study investigates the relation between idea generation outcomes and resulting design soluti... more This study investigates the relation between idea generation outcomes and resulting design solutions in an educational setting. The study offers the Refined Novelty and Explored Variety (RNEV) technique as an outcome-based assessment technique. This technique is used against the idea generation outcomes of 45 students obtained through the Morphological Chart method, comprising 3185 sketches. The ideas are categorized into a genealogy tree for visualizing the solution spaces of the students, and their novelty and variety scores are calculated. The correlation is investigated between the scores and the final jury grades assigned for the success of the resulting design solutions. Results show that there is a significant positive correlation between the novelty and variety scores of the ideas, and the final jury grades.

Ordu University Journal of Science and Technology, 2021

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which was declared as a pandemic in 2020 by the World Health Organi... more Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which was declared as a pandemic in 2020 by the World Health Organization, many educational institutions around the world started distance education. However, since distance education is an unusual field for the stakeholders of education, this sudden change created a chaos both for institutions in terms of providing the necessary infrastructure and for educators in terms of redesigning instruction techniques and tools. In this article, it is aimed to discuss a distance education course design proposal for basic design course, which is taught generally in the first two semesters within a studio environment at the department of architecture, through a) student opinions that were obtained through an online questionnaire that were conducted at the end of the semester, evaluations made by the authors about b) the process outputs and achievements and c) the tools. The results show that, the distance education course design proposal for the basic design course of the department of architecture, which requires collaboration and interaction between students and instructors, evaluated as being efficient both in terms of the tools and methods used and in terms of creating an online collaborative workspace.

Books by Ümit Bayırlı

Developments in Design Research and Practice, 2022

Fictionation is a design tool developed as part of an ongoing Ph.D. research, for supporting desi... more Fictionation is a design tool developed as part of an ongoing Ph.D. research, for supporting design students in their idea generation process. This paper describes a study in which the Fictionation design tool has been pilot tested in an Inter- active Prototyping elective undergraduate course with industrial design students. The aim was to encourage design divergence, by inviting students into a fictional world where restrictive considerations of the design process do not exist for them. The study was carried out with thirteen students using the design tool in the idea generation phase of their projects. The submissions were analyzed for their visual contents. The results show that students were able to diverge in their design exploration, offering variety and novelty in their design ideas. Divergence in the idea generation phase of the design process in design education allows the students to extend the boundaries of the design solution space, and provide variety of ideas within this space, which in return, reflect on the quality of the final design solution.

PhD Thesis, 2020

Design process is an iterative activity that embodies research and planning, idea generation, eva... more Design process is an iterative activity that embodies research and planning, idea generation, evaluation and refinement, and finalization phases. Among these, idea generation is evaluated as having the highest impact on the quality of the final design solution since it is the phase that requires the generation of many (quantity), various (variety) and novel (novelty) ideas that will be further developed and resulted as the final product in the following phases of the design process. For the purpose of guiding and supporting designers in the design process and especially idea generation, various design methods and tools have been developed. However, these methods and tools are being criticized for 1) being ineffective in enhancing quantity, variety and novelty of the generated ideas, 2) not being experimentally tested by the researchers and 3) not being supported with illogical thinking, which is one of the essences of creative thinking.
This thesis aims to identify the needs of the idea generation process and offer a strategy for design students in order to foster the outcomes of the idea generation process. For this purpose, a mixed method research was conducted. The needs of the idea generation process were identified through observation and peer debriefing, a design tool (Fictionation) that integrates design fiction into idea generation was created and further developed through a pilot study, and workshops that adopt a quasi-experimental research model was conducted. The findings were evaluated by using the assessment technique that was developed within this thesis and interviews. The results have shown that the Fictionation tool is promising in terms of fostering the outcomes of the idea generation process by increasing quantity, variety and novelty of the generated ideas and achieving an efficient learning and teaching environment within design education.

Master's Thesis, 2015

Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year t... more Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year to initiate students to the theory, practice and communication of design and to lay a basis on which more advanced and specialized knowledge will be gathered throughout the rest of their design education and careers. However, the course's results, influence in design education and methods of conduct receives many criticisms from students, educators, designers and researchers. Even though the course plays a founding role in design education and is criticized for not being successful, there are very few studies on how this course should be formulated or updated. For this reason, a study is conducted in two stages with the students and instructors of METU Department of ID in order to assess basic design education within the scope of this department. The results of the fieldwork are examined in consideration of the criticisms found in literature to determine the major problems of this course and to offer suggestions for improvement.

Proceedings of Arctheo ’21 XV. International Theory and History of Architecture Conference , 2021

Basic design can be evaluated as an introductory course to architectural and design education by ... more Basic design can be evaluated as an introductory course to architectural and design education by serving as a common ground where field specific knowledge and skills would be founded on. It is the course where students are encountered with the phenomenon of design. Design based disciplines are divided into subfields such as industrial design, graphic design, interior design, etc. because of being a comprehensive field. Furthermore, disciplines such as architecture, city and regional planning and landscape architecture also concerns with design issues. Despite these disciplines generate different outputs in terms of scale and scope, their education contains similar basic design courses focusing mainly on the understanding of common design principles. Being a researcher and instructor who teach basic design to the departments of industrial design, architecture and city and regional planning, many similarities and differences have been observed. Presenting these similarities and differences and expressing the perspectives of different disciplines to basic design education would be valuable in terms of the transfer of knowledge. Therefore, this paper serves as an introduction and comparison of the approaches, projects and syllabus of the basic design course within the departments of industrial design, architecture and city and regional planning. The deductions and presentations of this paper might serve as an introduction for the instructors in terms of seeing how other disciplines approach to basic design and might enable them to take credit for enhancing their basic design course.

Proceedings of IArchSAS 1st International Architectural Sciences and Application Symposium , 2021

The evaluation of a building by the user starts with the outer appearance that occurs at the very... more The evaluation of a building by the user starts with the outer appearance that occurs at the very beginning of the first impression. Even though the user evaluates the building by using adjectives, there are many important notions in the background of these adjectives such as, visual balance, composition, proportion, angles, relation and integrity of the elements. These notions are one of the acquisitions that are tried to be brought to the students in the basic design studios of the first year of architectural education. In that way, students have the opportunity to learn design element that are associated with the alphabet of design, and design principles and composition that are associated with the grammar of design in order to make a sentence and write a story in their further education. In the architecture and design-based disciplines, composition refers to the relations of the elements that The elements that make no sense when they are presented on their own, can make sense with their relations, positions, sizes, angles, in brief with the composition that they constitute. The concept of composition is generally taught by using cardboard based geometrical shapes that are cut into different shapes and sizes within the architectural and design education. The compositions created by the students are criticized by the instructors. In that way students have the opportunity to see what is right and wrong done both by themselves and their fellows. However, studies show that students have problems in transferring their basic design knowledge that were leant by abstract compositions to the practical design problems in further educational years. The aim of this study is to bring a new perspective into basic design education by working on the geometric analysis of concrete examples instead of abstract exercises for the purpose of transferring composition concept to the students. In that sense, the basic design studio of the Department of Architecture of the Pamukkale University constitutes the scope of the study. The findings show that the geometric analysis work carried out by the students in terms of providing the understanding of the design elements and their relations with each other, the change of the students' perspectives on the buildings, the development of their observation skills. Furthermore, the Miro platform used, was found useful in terms of the opportunity it created to work together remotely, its usefulness and the opportunity to examine other works.

UTAK 2020 Dördüncü Ulusal Tasarım Araştırmaları Konferansı: Tasarım ve Öngörü Bildiri Kitabı, 2021

Ürün geliştirme süreci içerisinde fikir geliştirme aşaması, sürecin geri kalanına ve son ürüne ol... more Ürün geliştirme süreci içerisinde fikir geliştirme aşaması, sürecin geri kalanına ve son ürüne olan etkisi bakımından kritik öneme sahiptir. Bu aşamada tasarımcılardan olabildiğince fazla sayıda, yenilikçi ve çeşitlilik sunan fikirler geliştirmeleri beklenir. Bu beklentiyi karşılamak ve özellikle tasarım öğrencilerine destek olmak amacıyla pek çok fikir geliştirme yöntemi ve aracı geliştirilmiştir. Bu yöntem ve araçlar kullanılabilirlik, uygulanabilirlik ve etkileri bakımından test edilmelidirler. Ancak, geliştirilen bu yöntem ve araçların, fikir geliştirme aşamasına ve
ortaya çıkan fikirlere olan etkisini nicel yöntemlerle inceleyen tekniklere literatürde rastlanmamaktadır. Bu konuda literatürde bulunan tek teknik Shah ve diğerlerine (2003) ait olup onun da kusurları bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışma var olan kusurları gideren ve daha sağlıklı sonuçlara
ulaşma imkânı veren bir ölçüm tekniği sunmaktadır. Önerilen ölçüm tekniği, fikir geliştirme aşamasının başarısını hem sınıf genelinde hem de öğrenci özelinde ölçmeye ve farklı fikir geliştirme yöntemlerinin etkilerini karşılaştırmalı olarak çözümlemeye olanak sağlamaktadır.

The Design Journal

The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics.... more The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics. As one of the most significant artefacts associated with characters and pareidolia, cars and car faces are the subject of the study. Previous studies state that car faces are likened to animal and human faces, and therefore personal characteristics are attributed to them. However, they have fallen short in identifying design languages that cause cars to be perceived as such. In that sense, this study presents a structural analysis of 27 automobile faces in which patterns were identified and the resulting design languages were compared with the manufacturers’ definitions. The results show a correlation between rounded headlights and flattened grills with a plain character, and inclined quadrilateral or triangular headlights, bulky grills, and cut lamps with a dynamic and confident character. Furthermore, design trends for car faces from the 2000s to the 2020s were presented.

Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year t... more Basic Design is a crucial course for design education. This course is offered in the first year to initiate students to the theory, practice and communication of design and to lay a basis on which more advanced and specialized knowledge will be gathered throughout the rest of their design education and careers. However, the course's results, influence in design education and methods of conduct receives many criticisms from students, educators, designers and researchers. Even though the course plays a founding role in design education and is criticized for not being successful, there are very few studies on how this course should be formulated or updated. For this reason, a study is conducted in two stages with the students and instructors of METU Department of ID in order to assess basic design education within the scope of this department. The results of the fieldwork are examined in consideration of the criticisms found in literature to determine the major problems of this course and to offer suggestions for improvement

DergiPark (Istanbul University), Dec 6, 2021

Emblems and logos, which are the most significant factors of corporate identity, play a role to p... more Emblems and logos, which are the most significant factors of corporate identity, play a role to promote the organization's character, products, services and to increase the organization's competitiveness and brand value. The results of the related studies argue that there is a major impact of fonts, colors, elements and shapes used in emblems and logos on users' perception. As the result of the literature review conducted within this context, the lack of studies examining the font, color, shape and context elements used in university logos in Turkey has been identified and the emblems and thus the logos of 200 universities in Turkey constitute the scope of the study. The aim of the study is to find out general tendencies and current trends and to form a base for related future studies by analyzing the emblems and logos in terms of form, color, and context. The general survey model was used as the data collection method and emblems and logos were grouped using content analysis and thematic coding. Additionally, the classifications of Çeken and Aybay (2021) and Özsoy, Tuncay and Uğur (2017) were used to analyze the elements of emblems and logos. In the light of the findings, emblems and logos in free form, consisting of one or two colors and containing symbolic and/or typographic elements are recommended for newly established universities in order to follow current design trends.

Springer eBooks, 2022

Fictionation is a design tool developed as part of an ongoing PhD research,for supporting design ... more Fictionation is a design tool developed as part of an ongoing PhD research,for supporting design students in their idea generation process. This paperdescribes a study in which the Fictionation design tool has been pilot testedin an Interactive Prototyping elective undergraduate course with industrial designstudents. The aim was to encourage design divergence, by inviting studentsinto a fictional world where restrictive considerations of the design process donot exist for them. The study was carried out with thirteen students using thedesign tool in the idea generation phase of their projects. The submissions wereanalyzed for their visual contents. The results show that students were able todiverge in their design exploration, offering variety and novelty in their designideas

UTAK 2020 Dördüncü Ulusal Tasarım Araştırmaları Konferansı, 8 - 10 Eylül 2020, Dec 1, 2020

Ürün geliştirme süreci içerisinde fikir geliştirme aşaması, sürecin geri kalanına ve son ürüne ol... more Ürün geliştirme süreci içerisinde fikir geliştirme aşaması, sürecin geri kalanına ve son ürüne olan etkisi bakımından kritik öneme sahiptir. Bu aşamada tasarımcılardan olabildiğince fazla sayıda, yenilikçi ve çeşitlilik sunan fikirler geliştirmeleri beklenir. Bu beklentiyi karşılamak ve özellikle tasarım öğrencilerine destek olmak amacıyla pek çok fikir geliştirme yöntemi ve aracı geliştirilmiştir. Bu yöntem ve araçlar kullanılabilirlik, uygulanabilirlik ve etkileri bakımından test edilmelidirler. Ancak, geliştirilen bu yöntem ve araçların, fikir geliştirme aşamasına ve ortaya çıkan fikirlere olan etkisini nicel yöntemlerle inceleyen tekniklere literatürde rastlanmamaktadır. Bu konuda literatürde bulunan tek teknik Shah, Vargas-Hernandez ve Smith’e (2003) ait olup onun da kusurları bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışma var olan kusurları gideren ve daha sağlıklı sonuçlara ulaşma imkânı veren bir ölçüm tekniği sunmaktadır. Önerilen ölçüm tekniği, fikir geliştirme aşamasının başarısını hem sınıf genelinde hem de öğrenci özelinde ölçmeye ve farklı fikir geliştirme yöntemlerinin etkilerini karşılaştırmalı olarak çözümlemeye olanak sağlamaktadır

The Design Journal, 2023

The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics.... more The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics. As one of the most significant artefacts associated with characters and pareidolia, cars and car faces are the subject of the study. Previous studies state that car faces are likened to animal and human faces, and therefore personal characteristics are attributed to them. However, they have fallen short in identifying design languages that cause cars to be perceived as such. In that sense, this study presents a structural analysis of 27 automobile faces in which patterns were identified and the resulting design languages were compared with the manufacturers’ definitions. The results show a correlation between rounded headlights and flattened grills with a plain character, and inclined quadrilateral or triangular headlights, bulky grills, and cut lamps with a dynamic and confident character. Furthermore, design trends for car faces from the 2000s to the 2020s were presented.

Sanat&Tasarım Dergisi, 2022

TR | Kurumsal kimlik kavramının en önemli öğelerinden olan amblem ve logolar, ait olduğu kuruluşu... more TR | Kurumsal kimlik kavramının en önemli öğelerinden olan amblem ve logolar, ait olduğu kuruluşun karakterini, ürünlerini, verilen hizmetleri tanıtan, marka değerini, rekabet gücünü artıran ve iletişim sağlayan bir rol üstlenirler. Bu hususta yapılan çalışmalarda amblem ve logolarda kullanılan yazı tiplerinin, renklerin, kullanılan unsurların ve şekillerin kullanıcı algısı üzerinde büyük etkiye sahip olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Yapılan literatür taraması sonucunda Türkiye’deki üniversite logolarında kullanılan yazı tipi, renk, şekil ve bağlam unsurlarını inceleyen çalışmaların eksikliği tespit edilmiş ve çalışmanın kapsamını da Türkiye’de aktif olarak faaliyet gösteren 200 adet üniversitenin amblem ve logoları oluşturmuştur. Çalışmanın amacı Türkiye’deki üniversite amblem ve logolarının şekil, renk ve bağlam açısından incelenerek genel ve güncel eğilimleri ortaya çıkarmak ve gelecekte bu konu ile ilgili yapılacak diğer çalışmalara altlık teşkil etmesini sağlamaktır. Çalışmada veri toplama yöntemi olarak genel tarama modeli kullanılmış, amblem ve logolar içerik analizi ve tematik kodlama kullanılarak gruplandırılmıştır. Buna ek olarak amblem ve logolarda bulunan unsurlar bağlam açısından incelenirken Çeken ve Aybay’ın (2021) ve Özsoy, Tuncay ve Uğur’un (2017) kullandığı sınıflandırmalardan yararlanılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular ışığında, serbest şekle sahip, tek veya iki renkten oluşan ve sembolik ve/ya tipografik öğeler barındıran amblem ve logolar güncel tasarım eğilimlerini takip etmek açısından yeni kurulacak üniversiteler için tavsiye niteliği oluşturmaktadır.
EN | Emblems and logos, which are the most significant factors of corporate identity, play a role to promote the organization's character, products, services and to increase the organization's competitiveness and brand value. The results of the related studies argue that there is a major impact of fonts, colors, elements and shapes used in emblems and logos on users' perception. As the result of the literature review conducted within this context, the lack of studies examining the font, color, shape and context elements used in university logos in Turkey has been identified and the emblems and thus the logos of 200 universities in Turkey constitute the scope of the study. The aim of the study is to find out general tendencies and current trends and to form a base for related future studies by analyzing the emblems and logos in terms of form, color, and context. The general survey model was used as the data collection method and emblems and logos were grouped using content analysis and thematic coding. Additionally, the classifications of Çeken and Aybay (2021) and Özsoy, Tuncay and Uğur (2017) were used to analyze the elements of emblems and logos. In the light of the findings, emblems and logos in free form, consisting of one or two colors and containing symbolic and/or typographic elements are recommended for newly established universities in order to follow current design trends.

Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2022

This study investigates the relation between idea generation outcomes and resulting design soluti... more This study investigates the relation between idea generation outcomes and resulting design solutions in an educational setting. The study offers the Refined Novelty and Explored Variety (RNEV) technique as an outcome-based assessment technique. This technique is used against the idea generation outcomes of 45 students obtained through the Morphological Chart method, comprising 3185 sketches. The ideas are categorized into a genealogy tree for visualizing the solution spaces of the students, and their novelty and variety scores are calculated. The correlation is investigated between the scores and the final jury grades assigned for the success of the resulting design solutions. Results show that there is a significant positive correlation between the novelty and variety scores of the ideas, and the final jury grades.

Ordu University Journal of Science and Technology, 2021

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which was declared as a pandemic in 2020 by the World Health Organi... more Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which was declared as a pandemic in 2020 by the World Health Organization, many educational institutions around the world started distance education. However, since distance education is an unusual field for the stakeholders of education, this sudden change created a chaos both for institutions in terms of providing the necessary infrastructure and for educators in terms of redesigning instruction techniques and tools. In this article, it is aimed to discuss a distance education course design proposal for basic design course, which is taught generally in the first two semesters within a studio environment at the department of architecture, through a) student opinions that were obtained through an online questionnaire that were conducted at the end of the semester, evaluations made by the authors about b) the process outputs and achievements and c) the tools. The results show that, the distance education course design proposal for the basic design course of the department of architecture, which requires collaboration and interaction between students and instructors, evaluated as being efficient both in terms of the tools and methods used and in terms of creating an online collaborative workspace.

Developments in Design Research and Practice, 2022

Fictionation is a design tool developed as part of an ongoing Ph.D. research, for supporting desi... more Fictionation is a design tool developed as part of an ongoing Ph.D. research, for supporting design students in their idea generation process. This paper describes a study in which the Fictionation design tool has been pilot tested in an Inter- active Prototyping elective undergraduate course with industrial design students. The aim was to encourage design divergence, by inviting students into a fictional world where restrictive considerations of the design process do not exist for them. The study was carried out with thirteen students using the design tool in the idea generation phase of their projects. The submissions were analyzed for their visual contents. The results show that students were able to diverge in their design exploration, offering variety and novelty in their design ideas. Divergence in the idea generation phase of the design process in design education allows the students to extend the boundaries of the design solution space, and provide variety of ideas within this space, which in return, reflect on the quality of the final design solution.