Maria C. Yang

Best Publications

• A study of prototypes, design activity, and design outcome

  Maria C. Yang

  367
  Citations

• Observations on concept generation and sketching in engineering design

  Maria C. Yang

  292
  Citations

• Bio-Inspired Design: An Overview Investigating Open Questions From the Broader Field of Design-by-Analogy

  Katherine Fu;Katherine Fu;Diana Moreno;Diana Moreno;Maria Yang;Kristin L. Wood

  195
  Citations

• Fundamental studies in Design-by-Analogy: A focus on domain-knowledge experts and applications to transactional design problems

  Diana P. Moreno;Alberto A. Hernández;Maria C. Yang;Kevin N. Otto

  184
  Citations

• Design Principles: Literature Review, Analysis, and Future Directions

  Katherine K. Fu;Maria C. Yang;Kristin L. Wood

  170
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• An Analysis of Sketching Skill and Its Role in Early Stage Engineering Design

  Maria C. Yang;Jorge G. Cham

  154
  Citations

• Design-by-analogy: experimental evaluation of a functional analogy search methodology for concept generation improvement

  Katherine Fu;Katherine Fu;Jeremy Murphy;Maria Yang;Kevin Otto

  135
  Citations

• Function Based Design-by-Analogy: A Functional Vector Approach to Analogical Search

  Jeremy Murphy;Katherine Fu;Kevin Otto;Maria Yang

  130
  Citations

• Connections between the design tool, design attributes, and user preferences in early stage design

  Anders Häggman;Geoff Tsai;Catherine Elsen;Tomonori Honda

  119
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• A methodology for engineering ontology acquisition and validation

  Zhanjun Li;Maria c. Yang;Karthik Ramani

  115
  Citations

• Design information retrieval: a thesauri-based approach for reuse of informal design information

  Maria C. Yang;William H. Wood;Mark R. Cutkosky

  91
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• Concept Generation and Sketching: Correlations With Design Outcome

  Maria C. Yang

  90
  Citations

• The Role of Sketch Finish and Style in User Responses to Early Stage Design Concepts

  Bryan A. Macomber;Maria Yang

  85
  Citations

• Building Fast to Think Faster: Exploiting Rapid Prototyping to Accelerate Ideation During Early Stage Design

  W. Lawrence Neeley;Kirsten Lim;April Zhu;Maria C. Yang

  82
  Citations

• The Economies and Dimensionality of Design Prototyping: Value, Time, Cost and Fidelity (DETC2018-85747)

  Edward Tiong;Olivia Seow;Bradley A Camburn;Kenneth Teo

  76
  Citations

• A study of the role of user-centered design methods in design team projects

  Justin Lai;Tomonori Honda;Maria c. Yang

  76
  Citations

• Consensus and single leader decision-making in teams using structured design methods

  Maria C. Yang

  71
  Citations

• Overcoming design fixation: Design by analogy studies and nonintuitive findings

  Diana P. Moreno;Lucienne T. M. Blessing;Maria C. Yang;Alberto A. Hernández

  70
  Citations

• A Step Beyond to Overcome Design Fixation: A Design-by-Analogy Approach

  Diana P. Moreno;Maria C. Yang;Alberto A. Hernández;Julie S. Linsey

  67
  Citations

• Generative Design: Reframing the Role of the Designer in Early-Stage Design Process

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  66
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