The COnCEPT upper-level Design Ontology (COnDO).
The COnCEPT upper-level Design Ontology
Category
Category of something.
DesignProject
Class of design projects
hasProduct
Design project has a product.
Function
Function of something.
observes
User observes product.
Product
Class products that are designed
hasProductProfile
Product has a profile.
ProductProfile
Class of profiles for persons.
isAssociatedTo
Something is asoociated to something.
contentIsAssociatedTo
content is asoociated to procuct etc.
productIsAssociatedTo
hasProductLanguage
Product has a product language.
ContentMetaData
ContentMetadata class is used as a wrapper collecting together different aspects of the product to be designed into the content metadata. It can be a logidal part of the original content item.
Content
Class contents.
hasMetadata
Link to content metadata wrapper.
Person
Class of persons.
hasProfile
Person has a profile.
PersonProfile
Designer
Class of designers.
hasDesignTeam
Designer is member of a design team.
hasDesignProject
Designer works in a design project.
EndUser
Class of end users.
DesignTeam
Class of design teams
ProductFunction
Product function describes more practical or sometimes referred to as syntactical aspects of the product,
hasFunction
Product has function.
ProductLanguage
ProductLanguage it represents the semantic features of the product i.e. what contents products may communicate, how they do this, what they might mean to whom, and what designers might contribute to this, also named Sensual Functions (Steffen, 2009)
SemanticFunction
AestheticFunction
The concepts of Aesthetic functions help to distinguish between order and complexity, and reduction of stimuli versus richness of stimuli using the terms of shapes, colour, texture, material etc.
IndicationFunction
The Indication functions enable the nature of a product or the product category to be identified.
SymbolFunction
Domain
Fashion
Kitchenware
Technology
Service
Device
Ergonomics
Safe
Comfortable
Economics
Cost
Expensive
Market
Premium
Rare
Mass
Ecology
Durable
Sustainable
Order
Simple
Symmetrical
Closed
Clear
Complexity
Manifold
Asymmetrical
Open
Unclear
UniversalDesignPrinciple
Identity
Brand
Material
Character
Identifying character
hasCharacter
Something can be identified by a characteristic symbol etc.
Common
Individual
Practicality
Stability
Usability
Style
National
Classic
Corporate
ArtDeco
Pop
Romantic
Trend
DesigerStyle
Gucci
Association
complements
Function complements or is counterpart provides contrast to another function in design but is not necessarily an exact opposite.
Old
Young
Aggressive
Cold
Warm
Dark
Time
Region
Movement