Yacht Design is the applicative sector of Industrial Design which deals with the planning of pleasure boats. It is a complex field of the Industrial Design, in which highly specialized branches of learning converge with as many specific planning contributions that the yacht designer finds himself having to co-ordinate to establish the formal values of the artefact-boat, full of symbolic and functional aspects. In particular, Sailing Yacht Design deals with difficulties of a superior nature, because of its need to integrate the technological and technical innovation and figurative and cultural codification aspects, with the demands of liveability of the areas in continual movement and of the overall efficiency of the system-boat expressed by the final users. Therefore, Yacht Design finds a valid operative support in the methods, techniques and instruments developed by applied ergonomics to direct planning action with awareness towards a morphological and spatial research which is both elegant in its language and fluid in its articulation and functionally efficient and pleasant in its use. In fact, the UCD - User-Centred Design’s approach, with its theoretical and applicative scope, allows the individual and his requirements to be placed at the centre of the Yacht Design, which reflects on the main levels of the requirements of the nautical product: from those regarding the safety of equipment and areas, to their functionality, ease of use, up to the requirement for pleasantness of the environment and finishing. To describe the possible intersections and interactions between Ergonomics and Sailing Yacht Design, this chapter is articulated in three parts. The first part (“The Yacht Design and Ergonomics”) outlines the peculiarity and multidimensional complexity of this design field, in particular of the Sailing Yacht Design, underlining the aspects on which the UCD ergonomic approach can provide planning indications which are useful to the anthropocentric management of the project. The second part (“The various applicative fields of the UCD to Sailing Yacht Design”) starts off from a known classification of the ergonomic requirements of the products (safety-functionality-usability-pleasantness) to outline a synthesis from it attributed to the nautical product, with the aim of identifying the various levels of a possible contribution of applied ergonomics to the Yacht Design. The third part (“Some applicative experiences of UCD to Sailing Yacht Design”) reports two experiences of ergonomic research applied to Sailing Yacht Design which show how ergonomics can contribute to identifying highly innovative solutions orientated towards the wellbeing of the user even in such a sector as pleasure boat sailing, highly connoted by a complex system of semantic and technological ties.

User-Centered Approach for Sailing Yacht Design

DI BUCCHIANICO, Giuseppe;VALLICELLI, Andrea
2011-01-01

Abstract

Yacht Design is the applicative sector of Industrial Design which deals with the planning of pleasure boats. It is a complex field of the Industrial Design, in which highly specialized branches of learning converge with as many specific planning contributions that the yacht designer finds himself having to co-ordinate to establish the formal values of the artefact-boat, full of symbolic and functional aspects. In particular, Sailing Yacht Design deals with difficulties of a superior nature, because of its need to integrate the technological and technical innovation and figurative and cultural codification aspects, with the demands of liveability of the areas in continual movement and of the overall efficiency of the system-boat expressed by the final users. Therefore, Yacht Design finds a valid operative support in the methods, techniques and instruments developed by applied ergonomics to direct planning action with awareness towards a morphological and spatial research which is both elegant in its language and fluid in its articulation and functionally efficient and pleasant in its use. In fact, the UCD - User-Centred Design’s approach, with its theoretical and applicative scope, allows the individual and his requirements to be placed at the centre of the Yacht Design, which reflects on the main levels of the requirements of the nautical product: from those regarding the safety of equipment and areas, to their functionality, ease of use, up to the requirement for pleasantness of the environment and finishing. To describe the possible intersections and interactions between Ergonomics and Sailing Yacht Design, this chapter is articulated in three parts. The first part (“The Yacht Design and Ergonomics”) outlines the peculiarity and multidimensional complexity of this design field, in particular of the Sailing Yacht Design, underlining the aspects on which the UCD ergonomic approach can provide planning indications which are useful to the anthropocentric management of the project. The second part (“The various applicative fields of the UCD to Sailing Yacht Design”) starts off from a known classification of the ergonomic requirements of the products (safety-functionality-usability-pleasantness) to outline a synthesis from it attributed to the nautical product, with the aim of identifying the various levels of a possible contribution of applied ergonomics to the Yacht Design. The third part (“Some applicative experiences of UCD to Sailing Yacht Design”) reports two experiences of ergonomic research applied to Sailing Yacht Design which show how ergonomics can contribute to identifying highly innovative solutions orientated towards the wellbeing of the user even in such a sector as pleasure boat sailing, highly connoted by a complex system of semantic and technological ties.
2011
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