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Collapsible Multipurpose Camping ChairThis thesis presents the design and development of a collapsible multipurpose camping chair, addressing the needs of modern outdoor enthusiasts for convenience and functionality. Grounded in product design principles, this study explores the entire process from ideation to prototype, highlighting the importance of user-centered design. By examining historical references to chairs, including their evolution from ancient civilizations, this research informs a contemporary redesign that prioritizes portability, comfort, and versatility. The project aims to create a chair that not only serves its primary function but also adapts to various outdoor activities, enhancing the user experience. Through iterative design processes and user feedback, this thesis contributes to the field of product design by showcasing innovative solutions for everyday challenges in outdoor settings.
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Innovative Industrial Design in Saudi Arabia: The Retractable Umbrellas of Al-Masjid an-NabawiThe retractable umbrellas at Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina exemplify a seamless integration of modern industrial design and Islamic architectural aesthetics. Designed to address the intense heat of the region, these innovative structures provide shade and comfort to worshippers while enhancing the mosque's visual harmony. This article explores the functionality, engineering marvels, and cultural significance of these umbrellas, emphasizing their role as a sustainable and user-centered solution. As a symbol of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, they showcase how industrial design can harmonize tradition and innovation, offering a model for future projects in culturally significant spaces.
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Predicting Student Performance in a Design Entrepreneurship and Leadership Course: Leveraging Academic MetricsPredicting and understanding student performance is a critical challenge for design education programs, as it enables educators to identify at-risk students, allocate resources effectively, and enhance teaching strategies to support student success. This study investigates the use of academic metrics to develop a predictive model for student performance in a "Design Entrepreneurship and Leadership" course at Effat University. The academic record data collected includes student attendance, quiz grades, midterm exam grades, final exam grades, and assignment project grades. Using a multiple linear regression approach, this research examined the relative influence of these factors on the students' final course performance. The results indicate that quiz grades, midterm exam grades, and assignment project grades were the strongest predictors of student success, while attendance grades also contributed significantly to the model. The proposed predictive model provides valuable insights for design educators and program administrators. By understanding the key drivers of student performance, they can identify at-risk students early on and implement targeted interventions to improve learning outcomes. Additionally, the findings can inform curriculum development, assessment practices, and the allocation of resources within design program’s other courses. This study contributes to the limited but growing body of research on predicting student performance in design-focused courses. By leveraging academic metrics, the researchers demonstrate a rigorous and data-driven approach to forecasting student success, which can be adapted and applied to a variety of design education contexts. The findings have important implications for enhancing the quality and effectiveness of design curricula, ultimately preparing students for the complex challenges they will face in the professional world.
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Factors Influencing the Success and Challenges of Design-Driven Entrepreneurship in the Kingdome of Saudi Arabia: A Theoretical FrameworkPredicting and understanding student performance is a critical challenge for design education programs, as it enables educators to identify at-risk students, allocate resources effectively, and enhance teaching strategies to support student success. This study investigates the use of academic metrics to develop a predictive model for student performance in a "Design Entrepreneurship and Leadership" course at Effat University. The academic record data collected includes student attendance, quiz grades, midterm exam grades, final exam grades, and assignment project grades. Using a multiple linear regression approach, this research examined the relative influence of these factors on the students' final course performance. The results indicate that quiz grades, midterm exam grades, and assignment project grades were the strongest predictors of student success, while attendance grades also contributed significantly to the model. The proposed predictive model provides valuable insights for design educators and program administrators. By understanding the key drivers of student performance, they can identify at-risk students early on and implement targeted interventions to improve learning outcomes. Additionally, the findings can inform curriculum development, assessment practices, and the allocation of resources within design program’s other courses. This study contributes to the limited but growing body of research on predicting student performance in design-focused courses. By leveraging academic metrics, the researchers demonstrate a rigorous and data-driven approach to forecasting student success, which can be adapted and applied to a variety of design education contexts. The findings have important implications for enhancing the quality and effectiveness of design curricula, ultimately preparing students for the complex challenges they will face in the professional world.
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Creative Lab in jeddahSaudi Arabia’s youth are its most viable and potential human resource, not only in population structure but also in social structure. They should be given the appropriate space and opportunity to exercise their knowledge and talents to help society progress in a positive way. Public space and facilities should be provided to ensure that urban youth mature in all sectors of life, including art and creativity, sports and athletics, technology and entertainment, and appreciation for the environment. This research paper provides an extensive study of what the youth want and demand from the present society and how they are coming of age in the current world. The purpose of the paper is to establish the idea that all young people need a space where they can be guided down the right path. Moreover, urban youths require this more than nonurban youths, since they are the most vulnerable and susceptible to dangerous events and ideas. Creative lab for youth will provide the space that gives them every opportunity to accomplish their goals and succeed with a positive outlook. Therefore, this paper will analyze the youth mind and culture and propose a suitable program for the dedicated urban space that will allow them to devote their time and energy in a positive way.
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Tiny WasherWashing is one of the most important priorities carried out by humans. Washing processes have multiplied and, over the years, washing machines have developed tremendously. It is one of the most significant inventions that have changed the world, saving time as well as effort. In recent years, washing machine industries and inventions have evolved to facilitate the washing process and therefore, and portable washing machines are invented with convenient portability, compact in size compared to the standard washing machine, and easy to store. This research has gone through the history and investigated the enhancement of the washing machine. The reason why portable machines were invented, has been research aimed. This study aims to provide solutions and improve the design of the current portable washing machine. Since the project aims to save time and facilitate the washing process, this project has new functionality that can be helpful to consumers. Through various research methods, the user requirements are identified along with current products in the market to ensure that, a similar product is not invented. Based on the results, a new product will be developed and ideation, model making, and prototype came Into existence, that adheres to the product design specification.
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Student Dormitory (Lamma لمة)Several young adults experience a turning point when they start attending colleges or universities since it marks the beginning of both an educational journey and an essential growth in their independence. The transition from familiar surroundings to an entirely unfamiliar environment, frequently in the form of dorms, is one of the significant adjustments students experience during this time. The interior spaces of student housing must thus be thoughtfully designed to give students a sense of familiarity and comfort.
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Envisaging future cities within intersectional strategy in the Arab RegionSince the 1980s, the term "Intersectionality" was demonstrated and was widely recognized when discussing gender issues. This also applied to gender and space, leading to the recognition of gender and urban studies as being related to one another and sharing a common foundation (Löw, 2006). Regardless of the later critique of intersectionality (Nash, 2008), the academic recognition of gender intersectionality had significant effects on education, research, and practice in the field of spatial disciplines. In order to evaluate the possibility of gender inclusive urban design in making our cities safe for everyone, especially women, this study focuses on the intersections of gender and space, and in particular the urban public space. It makes a discursive attempt to summarize the varied experiences of heterogeneity in the Arab region. It employs a socio-spatial paradigm from a theoretical and methodological standpoint. The United Nations (UN), among other international organizations that support gender equality in cities, are cited in the study's official papers, secondary sources, and literature review, which are all used to assemble its data. In order to better comprehend the gender inequities in the Arab region, the study emphasizes intersectionality as an analytical strategy and calls for a multidimensional view of gender in the Arab states. The study explains the idea of intersectionality and justifies its applicability to the area. It then explains how this idea might be used to encourage and promote development for everyone. This study explores intersectionality as a crucial theoretical resource to further develop and promote urban planning from an intersectional perspective, contributing to current debates and discussions on the use of gender mainstreaming in urban policies. The study underlines the significance of intersectionality as a tool for urban planning since it enables feminist theorists to differentiate between different experiences of women in the city. The paper is structured into four sections: 1) Outlining important ideas; 2) exploring how gender affects the city and how women have historically been disadvantaged by urban planning; 3) Examining policy documents and interviews to gauge the intersectionality of GM policies; 4) synthesizing the results to assess gender planning and make suggestions for future studies. The study adopts a mixed-methods approach, analyzing important policy documents, conducting a survey, and organizing semi-structured interviews. This study investigates the significance of intersectionality in urban design as a result. It draws attention to the importance of the research done by many eminent academics in these crucial subjects, including anthropologists, geographers, architects, urbanists, and cultural theorists. It comes to the conclusion that women are underrepresented among those who make decisions in our urban sector, including legislators, planners, architects, and engineers. This lack of representation and precise data collection has a direct impact on the urban shape of our city. Furthermore, intersectionality has useful ramifications that may be applied to the formulation of policies to help organizations deal with the problem of gender diversity.
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Participatory Strategic Foresight Framework: Embracing Future Thinking in Design Education and Community Vision PlanningChanges in society, student expectations, and technology continue to shift the ways in which we learn. The contemporary state of design education is being affected by changes in the professional realm that requires a future thinking-centered design to increase the citizen participation in designing their own future city-environment. As new forces reshape the academic landscape and conversations around educational accessibility pervade public debate, examining existing methodologies of design research and curricula is significant to enhance the student experience and equip them with the skills needed for future professional practice. Future thinking can be seen as a crucial premise to approach solving a problem in an innovative way. It is particularly essential at circumstances in which challenges are complex, vague, and ambiguous. Any futures-focused effort, strategic foresight, or provocation about an alternate future scenario is a means of exploring and learning from generated possibilities. Design-Futures deal with the role of design in shaping future alternatives. Future thinking incorporates two particular approaches: diverging and converging. It requires both a flexible way of understanding, to come with different thoughts, and know-how to make responsible decisions. This chapter reviews the literature crossing strategic foresight and interior design with the accentuation put on how design students, educators and design practitioners may engage with the future to investigate the challenges to decision-making. The author has developed a framework crossing the area of service & product design through future thinking, user and community centered design. The framework is structured to educate design practitioners effectively and also empower them to lead the market as change-makers. This paper will present case studies of participatory design workshops that addressed different areas of concern but were underpinned by a shared approach. Through this framework, conclusion is presented as the elaboration of a futures thinking framework that can contribute to many other design disciplines.
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Design Futures: Cultivating Strategic Foresight Competencies in Design EducationFuture thinking and speculation practices can be seen as a crucial premise to approach solving a problem in an innovative way. It is particularly profitable at circumstances in which challenges are complex, vague, and ambiguous. Future thinking incorporates two particular approaches: diverging and converging. It requires both a flexible way of understanding, to come with different thoughts, and know-how to make responsible decisions. This paper reviews the literature crossing Strategic Foresight and Design disciplines with the accentuation put on how innovation design students, educators and design practitioners may engage with the future to investigate the challenges to decision-making they highlight. Combining Foresight and Design, as part of Strategic Planning processes, can help the emergence of new and more creative possibilities and conceivable outcomes, cultivate the incorporation and arrangement of diverse stakeholders, and provide for continuous learning through prototyping and experimentation by utilizing design tools and approaches to attain more profound knowledge and arrangement around current reality. A framework was presented to integrate speculation and strategic foresight approaches in design education highlighting the significance of the strategic foresight Design approach and explaining the theoretical background behind creating the framework. A participatory design workshop was conducted to explain methods used to support and validate the results of the theoretical background in order to further develop the framework. This framework can be adopted in the design field in order to facilitate the process and to support practitioners’ decisions to select suitable tools.
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Employing Extended Reality (XR) to Expanding Narratives of Place-Making, Spatial Presence and Immersive ExperienceExtended Reality XR, which encompasses various forms of virtual reality VR and augmented reality AR, has emerged as a powerful experimental tool in design and environmental psychology research due to its ability to produce comprehensive and immersive experiences for users through narratives. A strong sensation of spatial presence, which may be viewed as a subjective sense of space cognition and its surroundings, is one sign of a good XR experience. Despite the fact that XR research has shed light on numerous elements that may affect presence and place-making in XR environments, there is still much to learn about the varied phenomenology of narrative possibilities that ensure a successful immersion experience. The paper focuses on extended reality and how it influences how we create spaces, feel present in our surroundings, and have an immersive experience. In this paper, the concepts of place-making and spatial presence were examined in relation to how people might create a consistent sense of reality during both real-world and virtual experiences. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the ideas of place-making, presence, and immersion experience as they have been developed in XR research while also addressing variables that could affect expanding narratives. The study covers major elements of the "place" literature, connects them to the idea of presence, and then exhibits their use in the context of extended reality. It also discusses the phenomenological properties of presence in human consciousness. A user study conducted through a designed immersive experience as a simulation to some spaces of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Samples of users’ responses were collected through a survey addressing their perceptions of the virtual visit. The study showed that place-making and spatial presence in extended reality work as a link between real-world locations and virtual attributes. When moving from the real world to the virtual one, boundaries become more fluid, themes can be developed, and virtual spaces mimic the real spaces. The study outline proposals for further work and lays out some ideas for future research.
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The Delphi Method as a Morphological Catalyst for Foresight-Oriented Design ResearchAnticipating expository concepts could be complex in the field of innovation management. Designers confront methodological challenges when they lock into a future framework with rapidly changing variables. The system’s users, for starters, do not yet exist. Second, ongoing changes in critical components and their interconnections make it hard to conceptualise relationships and offer synthesizable data. There is a lack of evidence in the rational core for generating forecasts. The Delphi method and morphological analysis are both well-established methods in strategic foresight. This paper suggests that using a morphology-based Delphi approach that employs a mix of the Delphi Method and Morphological Analysis to forecast future results in creative, complicated enterprises is beneficial. Furthermore, one tool compensates for the theoretical and functional shortcomings of the other by showing transparent, value-based arguments in an iterative, customizable manner. This documentary study has adopted a comparative study-based methodology that compares morphological Delphi in the context of future-oriented design to related fields in terms of procedural and theoretical parallels and differences. The results demonstrate morphological Delphi techniques through different scales of studies to provide a learning experience that is based on research, application and interaction which can be employed in future context design.
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A pedagogical Context to Integrating Trend Forecasting Techniques into Innovative Design EducationDespite the abundance of knowledge in trend forecasting evident within many disciplines, there is a dearth of information on the application of trend forecasting in design education in the context of determining the innovation in trends’ concepts and philosophy, theme, colour, materials and finish. This issue stems from the inadequacy of the traditional learning framework in design curriculums to keep up with the multi-layered structure of design professions’ demands that acquire expanded, cross-boundary knowledge and futurology skills. This study suggests a thematic approach that employs trend forecasting as an integral part of the design process, entwined with form, function, desirability, and other considerations that highlight the market development within the real life context. This paper aims to investigate the significance of trend forecasting incorporated in the design education development process, and to set a practical guidance to educators to create a culture of anticipatory progress in learning, teaching and assessment that is completely aligned with the strategic objectives. The study has adopted a case-study based methodology of presenting examples of senior students’ projects and assessing the learning outcomes to be applied as medium synthesizing for new ideas generation. The results demonstrate forecasting through different scales of studies to provide a learning experience that is based on research, application and interaction with the design industry.
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Smart Life Jacket (Wearable Technology Product)The Smart Life Vest is a product designed to prevent drowning incidents by combining advanced technology with innovative safety features. This vest is suitable for a wide range of users, from beginner swimmers to professional athletes, ensuring protection at all levels. Equipped with smart sensors that monitor the nervous system and detect unusual movements, the vest can instantly recognize drowning situations. Once activated, it automatically inflates an airbag or buoyancy system to prevent drowning. Additionally, it sends an SOS message with the user’s precise location, accompanied by an automatic light to ensure rapid assistance. These integrated features provide safety and peace of mind, allowing users to enjoy water activities with confidence.
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Education and Technology Center for ElderliesIn the context of an education and technology center, the significance of such a center resides in meeting the special needs and interests of seniors. This center's goal is to give senior citizens a welcoming, stimulating environment in which they may learn new things and take use of the opportunities presented by modern technological advances. This paper will further discuss the importance and problems of such centers and would go through detailed case studies of similar projects to get a better insight into the interior design of the space. Moreover, comprehensive literature reviews are one of the methods used in the design of this center to find appropriate standards in senior technology and education centers. In order to learn more about the target audience's opinions, desires, and demands, surveys will also be sent to them. The interior design of the center will be customized to allow for a comfortable, accessible, and stimulating experience for senior users by combining the results of surveys and literature reviews.
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Park Interactive Facility Development: A Study Fulfilled for Saudi Arabia’s Public SpacesThis thesis covers in great detail the background of the development of urban furniture in Saudi Arabia's public spaces. Aiming to identify existing urban furniture in multipurpose parks, analyse their properties, and propose a cultural-based urban unit to increase the satisfaction of local and touristic users, this thesis covers. The research addresses the lack of availability of creative urban furniture that can handle extreme heat and the limited presence of appealing and interactive urban furniture in the Saudi market. It also aims to contribute to the improvement of the lifestyle for Saudi residents, support going out into nature, and preserve and cherish the Saudi identity. It is expected for this project to result in at least one scale model of the design with a list of suggested materials and potentially real-life implementation in one of Jeddah’s public parks. This thesis provides a detailed overview of the development of a multi use park unit in Saudi Arabia's public spaces. It highlights the significance of the study in addressing the lack of research on urban furniture design in Saudi Arabia and the potential for improvement in public spaces. Moreover, it lays the foundation for investigating the research questions and objectives, and it is expected to offer a unit designed by a product designer that will resolve and improve the citizen’s needs. Contributing to the improvement of the lifestyle for Saudi residents, supporting the preservation of the Saudi identity, and potentially leading to the real-life implementation of a sustainable and culturally significant urban furniture unit in Jeddah’s public parks, this study is significant. All of this is made clear because data collection is available in different forms; explaining information from various journal articles, websites and books, studying the history of parks, including detailed market research, conducting user and expert interviews, and analysing a 17 question survey is all part of this research.
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Public Library/HubThe library adapts the concept of an “Open World Library” Where Knowledge Meets Entertainment. We aim to establish a unique space that seamlessly blends educational resources with captivating entertainment facilities. By incorporating cutting-edge technology, we aim to enhance the library's offerings, making it a hub for knowledge seekers and a source of inspiration for the community. Our mission is to foster a balanced and engaging environment that encourages lifelong learning and sparks a passion for knowledge in individuals of all ages.
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Wid: The Postpartum Care CenterIn order to give moms the best possible atmosphere during the critical postpartum phase, this concept offers a comprehensive design for a postpartum care center that skillfully combines traditional warmth with modern comforts. A calm, encouraging environment is created by the center's well-thought-out features, which include nurseries, nurse stations, a wellness pavilion, an opulent spa, and a fully-stocked gym. These amenities are meant to assist both the physical and emotional healing of new moms, allowing them a sanctuary where they can focus on self-care and connecting with their newborns. The center's cutting-edge program, which prioritizes ongoing, individualized care and attends to the specific needs of moms, babies, and families, is at the core of the project. The facility's design combines contemporary wellness techniques with compassionate care to guarantee that every mother's recuperation process is completely supported from the minute she arrives. Naturally occurring materials, calming color schemes, and clever spatial design all contribute to the room's overall feeling of coziness and relaxation. Ultimately, the goal of this initiative is to rethink postpartum care by fostering an atmosphere in which moms feel supported, empowered, and equipped with the tools necessary to flourish during this life-changing period.
