What did you say? - When Design Students meet the Professional Lingo

Kaare Eriksen; Ida  Schütt Madsen; Nanna  Harboe Friis Nørtoft; Stefan  Larsen; Rune  Gyntzel

doi:10.35199/epde2019.102

What did you say? - When Design Students meet the Professional Lingo

Kaare Eriksen, Ida Schütt Madsen, Nanna Harboe Friis Nørtoft, Stefan Larsen, Rune Gyntzel

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The industrial design profession in general relates to many different cross-disciplinary environments where words, phrases, slang and abbreviations from different scientific fields and practical domains mix with terminologies for specifically as well as rather vaguely defined phenomena. This creates a natural communication gap for industrial design interns in companies where they can meet a lingo that differs from the study environment at the university. This paper describes the nature of this communication gap based upon observations and surveys conducted among a group of industrial design master level students at a Scandinavian university. The research shows that the types and amount of unknown words and phrases vary according to the size of the company and the product categories in focus, but in all the cases slang and abbreviations in particular cause the design intern to ask for an explanation or simply exclaim ‘What did you say?’

Translated title of the contribution	Hvad sagde du? - Når designstuderende møder den professionelle lingo
Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education : Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019
Editors	Erik Bohemia, Ahmed Kovacevic, Lyndon Buck, Ross Brisco, Dorothy Evans, Hilary Grierson, William Ion, Robert Ian Whitfield
Publisher	Design Society
Publication date	Sept 2019
Pages	472-477
Article number	242
Chapter	18
ISBN (Print)	978-1-912254-05-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.102
Publication status	Published - Sept 2019
Event	Towards a New Innovation Landscape: 21st international Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education - Loughborough University, Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 12 Sept 2019 → 13 Sept 2019 https://epde.info/epde2019/

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Conference	Towards a New Innovation Landscape
Location	Loughborough University
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	12/09/2019 → 13/09/2019
Internet address	https://epde.info/epde2019/

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Industrial design students, internship, lingo, language gap, professional lingo, communication, abbreviations

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Eriksen, K., Schütt Madsen, I., Harboe Friis Nørtoft, N., Larsen, S., & Gyntzel, R. (2019). What did you say? - When Design Students meet the Professional Lingo. In E. Bohemia, A. Kovacevic, L. Buck, R. Brisco, D. Evans, H. Grierson, W. Ion, & R. I. Whitfield (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019 (pp. 472-477). Article 242 Design Society. https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.102

Eriksen, Kaare ; Schütt Madsen, Ida ; Harboe Friis Nørtoft, Nanna et al. / What did you say? - When Design Students meet the Professional Lingo. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019. editor / Erik Bohemia ; Ahmed Kovacevic ; Lyndon Buck ; Ross Brisco ; Dorothy Evans ; Hilary Grierson ; William Ion ; Robert Ian Whitfield. Design Society, 2019. pp. 472-477

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Eriksen, K, Schütt Madsen, I, Harboe Friis Nørtoft, N, Larsen, S & Gyntzel, R 2019, What did you say? - When Design Students meet the Professional Lingo. in E Bohemia, A Kovacevic, L Buck, R Brisco, D Evans, H Grierson, W Ion & RI Whitfield (eds), Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019., 242, Design Society, pp. 472-477, Towards a New Innovation Landscape, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 12/09/2019. https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.102

What did you say? - When Design Students meet the Professional Lingo. / Eriksen, Kaare; Schütt Madsen, Ida ; Harboe Friis Nørtoft, Nanna et al.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019. ed. / Erik Bohemia; Ahmed Kovacevic; Lyndon Buck; Ross Brisco; Dorothy Evans; Hilary Grierson; William Ion; Robert Ian Whitfield. Design Society, 2019. p. 472-477 242.

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Eriksen K, Schütt Madsen I, Harboe Friis Nørtoft N, Larsen S, Gyntzel R. What did you say? - When Design Students meet the Professional Lingo. In Bohemia E, Kovacevic A, Buck L, Brisco R, Evans D, Grierson H, Ion W, Whitfield RI, editors, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Towards a New Innovation Landscape, E and PDE 2019. Design Society. 2019. p. 472-477. 242 doi: 10.35199/epde2019.102

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