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Many firms use _____ to achieve the effects of colocation without actual physical proximity of team members.

A) digital colocation
B) face-to-face colocation
C) mechanical colocation
D) too-distant colocation

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Product designers often use design for manufacturability (DFM) techniques to find ways to minimize manufacturing costs.

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B) False

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Colocation allows team members to identify and resolve product development problems faster.

The role of design in market-driven innovation is to modify the product so that it can accommodate the performance characteristics.

A product design which is developed in collaboration with end users and which captures the voice of the customer is known as a universal design.

Automobile companies often create full-size clay models in order to extract consumer reactions to proposed styling alternatives. Such models would be best described as _____ prototypes.

Which of the following is true of market-driven innovation?

The process by which a customer's need is developed into a product design is called _____.

Design for ergonomics is the technique by which products can be taken apart after use for separate recycling of metal, glass, and plastic parts.

By definition, a focused prototype is a fully functioning, full-size product that is essentially complete and ready for examination by potential customers.

The term "derivative product" refers to products based on the same platform as an existing product, but modified incrementally in terms of technology or customer need fulfillment.

With reference to the design process, the practice of putting the various individuals or functional areas in close proximity so as to shorten communication lines and increase team cohesion is called _____.

_____ design is the term sometimes used to mean the design of products to be usable by anyone regardless of age or ability.

With regard to the process of product architecture, the _____ shows the components and functional elements of the product and how they are interconnected.

Which of the following statements is true of design?

Regarding the process of product architecture, if rapid changes are expected in some part of the product, that part should most certainly be made into a chunk.

What is a prototype? What types of prototypes may be used, and for what purposes?

Which of the following is the first step in the process for product architecture?

In the context of the product design process, which of the following is true of colocation?

A certain watch manufacturing company manufactures watches that have about a third of the moving parts of a traditional Swiss watch: a plastic casing without a removable back, a plastic strap incorporated into the casing, and many other similar design features. The company retails its watches at a small fraction of the price of traditional Swiss watches. In this scenario, the company's watches are most likely designed: