ERAF Systems Model

Creator: Vijay Kumar
This model shows the entities, relations, attributes and flows of a system.

Design landscape

Creator: Liz Sanders
“The map, [circa 2007] is an attempt to position all of these [design] approaches into one unifying, visual framework so that we can stop arguing over which is the best approach and begin a dialogue about where to play during all points along the design development process.”

Analogous Model

Creator: Vijay Kumar
This model shows how a system can be used as a model and applied to analogous situations.

101 Design Methods’ Design-Led Innovation Process

Creator: Vijay Kumar

This model communicates the difference between a design-led innovation process versus a business and technology-driven one.

Service blueprint of Presby Neuro Clinic

Creator: Melissa Cliver, Jamin Hegeman, Kipum Lee, Leanne Libert, Kara Tennant (Carnagie Mellon University)
Client: Presby Neuro Clinic
The blueprint maps the entire clinic experience for patients and all of the supporting roles staff and Dr. Kassam play throughout. Mapping the service blueprint allowed the team to see the breakdowns in the clinic experience: the chaotic backstage processes, the absolute importance of Dr.Kassam in the system, the lack of patients’ engagement during the waiting time.

Food-Wellness-Diabetes Convergence

Creator: Larry Keeley’s students
This model demonstrates how food production, wellness, and diabetes have increasingly become overlapped over time. It was used to build a platform strategy addressing the diabetes epidemic in the United States.

Gain and Loss Model

Creators: Amy Batchu, Marilee Bowles-Carey, Preethi Lakshminarayanan, Amanda McKown, Shilpa Rao, Nallieli Santamaria, Gauri Verma and Nanqian Xu
Client: Liberty Mutual
This model highlights opportunity areas for Liberty Mutual and locates them in a time-based framework.

Jay Doblin’s Information Flow in Design

Creator: Jay Doblin
Paper: “Perceptual Maps: One Aid to Product Planning”This model shows the flow and transformation of information between different stages in the design process.

ideal in-car experience

Creator: Lextant
Client: Visteon
This model describes the ideal consumer experience regarding in-car electronics. It is a build off of a product attribute model, acting as a way to frame solutions.

CityFriends Solution Diagram

Creator: Andrew Buhayar, Carol Coletta, Jillian Lee, John Montgomery, Ethan Suh
This model shows a company’s competitors in order to help with product planning.