Functional Analysis and Allocation in Conceptual Design - COIT20275

This report delves into the principles of functional analysis and allocation within the context of conceptual design. It begins with an introduction to functional analysis, highlighting its origins and significance in mathematics and various application fields. The report then provides an overview of functional analysis and allocation, emphasizing their roles in gathering information, increasing behavioral support efficiency, and determining the allocation of specific functions. The core of the report examines different approaches to functional analysis, including systematic and axiomatic design, and explores the TRIZ functional model. It also outlines various approaches to functional allocation, such as planning and user research, including methods like contextual inquiry and analysis. Furthermore, the report discusses requirement methods, cognitive models, task analysis, and design methods, offering a comprehensive view of the techniques involved in conceptual design. Finally, the report presents a diagram illustrating the conceptual design process and concludes by emphasizing the importance of functional analysis and allocation for effective conceptual design within the industry.

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Introduction
Functional analysis a branch of the subject called mathematics. It is mainly originated
from the classical analysis (Acciarri et al., 2016). Before eighty years the development of the
functional analysis started. The Functional analysis method as well as results is very
important in different kinds of fields of the mathematics. It is also applicable to the various
applications of the functional analysis. It elaborates the several procedures of functional and
also allocation related to conceptual design.
Overview of the Functional Analysis and Allocation
The main aim of the functional analysis is to check the methodology as well as
strategies used to gather information (Armengaud et al., 2016). In order to increase the
efficiency of behavioral support this information is used to.
To decide if a specific function will be skilled by the mixture of person, technology,
technology and person might be the main purpose of this.
All necessary inputs for provided conceptual design will be the desired input for the
functional analysis. All necessary top-level functions for the given conceptual design will be
the required input for the purpose of functional allocation.
Functional allocation shall be the output of the desired test results whereas outcome
for functional analysis will be the lower level functions.
The functional analysis has three stages. The functional allocation has two stages.
Functional analysis consist of several process- defining the behavior, identification of
records, analyzing the gathered data, making treatment recommendations and many others.
The supporting processes of function allocation include- dividing higher level
requirements and assigning lower level requirements.

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Approaches of Functional Analysis
There are various kinds of approaches for functional allocation. One of the processes
is the systematic design processes. The second one is axiomatic design. The common
portions between these two are that they can deal with the functions. The conceptual designer
needs to realize these in terms of function (Torenbeek, 2013). It is not related to any kind of
solution. The function is the main element. It will guide in the design of the product. The
segregation of functions is different two separate methodologies. It should satisfy that
products are similar in nature. These functions may have similar kind of meaning in case of
conceptual of design. It is not dependent on any kind of solution. It is also a common tool.
The TRIZ functional model is applicable here. This function helps to reduce the harmful
functions. But the TRIZ functional modeling can apply in the design methodologies. It
integrates the useful aspects of functional analysis of conceptual design. TRIZ modeling
helps to develop the conceptual design. It provides the bad impact to the identified function.
Approaches of Functional Allocation
There are several approaches of functional allocation.
Planning
The responsibility of the user centered design and activity is to give a proper idea to
examine the necessity. There are different kinds of content plans are available. It is
used to check the proper methods and resources of the functional allocation. Different
methods are used add the activities. These are also used to detect the outcomes of
these activities of system design methods. It is used to check the point of view of the
organization. It is also used to detect the talents within the organization. It is very
important in functional allocation. It is used to build the methodology for taking the
feedback as well as establishing the contact between functional allocation and other

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system design activities. It is used to add proper segregation for functional allocation
into the entire design as well as the process of development (Torenbeek, 2013). It
ensures that this plan provides the time for iteration as well as the implementation of
any kind of modification. This will come from the evaluation methodology. There are
two subparts to this methodology. One is planning and another one is the Stakeholder
meeting. The checklist is the predefined set of rules, assignments or many other
things. These apply to the processes, products, user interfaces, and many others.
Comparisons between these are performed. These are providing the elaborated
procedural guides, some major documents, different type’s style guides and many
others. It can be utilized to modify the exact methodology, making comparison
between guidelines or evaluating products. The benefit of these methods involves
decreasing the load of memory, decreasing the faults as well as the workload. The
next point is to perform the stakeholder meeting. It is a very efficient approach for
introducing the stakeholders to each other.
User Research
From the beginning of the project, it is very important to know the requirements as
well as expectations of the user community of the products. It needs a huge amount of
effort that can help the conceptual designers, as well as project groups, provide a rich
product. At present, it looks at the inner side of the design. It is all about the exact
group of users. It gives different kinds of input that guides all the activities. It has
three different types of methods. Among this first one is the Context of use methods.
In this case, the initial one is the contextual inquiry. It is a method for taking the
interview of consumers. It is a semi-structured approach. The target of this method is
to gather information regarding the context of use. It is used when the consumers are
told a set of predefined queries and then noticed whether they are working in their

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own domain or not. The analyzed information has more reality than the data obtained
from the practical work. This methodology is entirely based on the different groups of
principles that will give permission for modeling various situations. This
methodology is used at the initiation of the design procedure. It is an excellent
methodology for getting rich information regarding the conceptual design. There are
different kinds of social, technical and physical environments that are available for
this particular procedure (Zeidler, 2013). There are four principles of contextual
inquiry. The first one is the focus. It is the plan for the inquiry. It is entirely based on
the crystal clear understanding of the requirements. In the case of context phase, the
designer will move the workplace of the consumer and observe his or her assignment.
The conceptual designer must talk with the consumers regarding the assignment and
involve them in uncovering unarticulated aspects of assignments. It is used to design a
shared understanding with the consumers about various aspects of those particular
assignments. In the case of interpretation, the designer needs to design a shared view
along with the consumers. It is entirely related to the area of work of that particular
assignment (Zeidler, 2013). The outcome of this phase can be utilized to describe the
requirements. It can also be used to improve the methodology, gaining an idea about
the important requirements of consumers or users. It is also very important regarding
the brand new domain to inform future projects. In the case of contextual of use
analysis, the conceptual designer collects as well as gathers the elaborated data about
the target consumers, their assignments and some technical as well as environmental
constraints. The data that is used for this purpose is collected by using the interviews,
surveys, site visits, groups of focus and many others. The main target of this
methodology is used to ensure all kinds of factors that can be related to the use of the
system that can be identified before the initialization starts. It also gives a basic

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method for designing the usability test. This information about the context of use is
very important to the definition of the input problem, goals of the products,
conceptual design, and many others. It is normally collected in the life cycle of the
product and modified the additional data. These can be collected from the study of
usability. The good procedure for gathering the information is to organize a half-day
meeting. At that meeting, the designer must invite stakeholders. These stakeholders
have prior knowledge about the targeted user as well as the usage of this. There are
many persons who are involved in this particular case. These involve- project
managers, developers, support staff, training, representative of the user and many
others (Zeidler, 2013). The longitudinal method is used to take the information within
a certain period of time. This time may be a day, month, week and many others.
Ethnographic methods are used to collect data regarding ethnographic users. In the
case of the focused group the moderator involves in a batch of participants.
Requirement methods
There are different points available for requirement methods. The affinity diagram is
very important. In this case concepts are recorded into the cards. Sorting operations
can be performed in between groups and sub groups. Conceptual design has lots of
positive as well as negative characteristics. Claims analysis is used to investigate
these issues. It can be elaborated in the present as well as future scenarios. Competitor
analysis is used to notice the positive as well as negative products or services. It is
performed before initiating the assignment of prototypes. Upcoming workshops
give designer to develop a solution to the technical issues of conceptual design. It also
raises some social issues (Torenbeek, 2013). One of the procedures is called the
Persona. It is used elaborate the idea of imaginary consumers. It includes features,

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experiences of the consumers. There are various kinds of scenarios. These scenarios
can be utilized to reach the goal of the consumers.
Cognitive models
Cognitive models can be utilized to describe the efficiency of customer. It can be used
by some generalized circumstances. It can be done by performing the conceptual;
design. If the designer wants to take some decision then this model will be the correct
choice. This model has the capability to take prior permission from the consumers
(Gao & Liu, 2014). The system is designed as the earlier feedback of the consumers.
If the designer wants to get full confidence then this model will be the correct choice.
This model has the capability to design a route. By using this route the consumer can
perform the interaction. There are various kinds of well-liked models are available.
These can be used to perform the interaction.
Task analysis and modeling methods
There are three subparts of this particular method. The first one is task analysis. It is
used to understand methodologies for detecting and understanding the flow, structure,
attributes of the conceptual design (Song et al., 2014). The second one is the cognitive task
analysis. It aimed to understand the cognitive task analysis of the conceptual design. In the
case of hierarchical task analysis, the higher-level problems are divided into smaller sub
problems.
Design methods
This methodology consists of several points (Song et al., 2014). These include the
generation of ideas, function allocation, parallel design, storyboard, and many others.
Usability evaluation

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It is the purpose of detecting the usability problems.
Design
The best way to provide useful design the website from initial position.
Managing UX
It is used to manage the user interface of the conceptual design.

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Diagram
Figure 1: Conceptual design diagram

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Conclusion
It provides better management of the conceptual design in the context of the industry.
All the points in these particular reports consider the efficient approach of the conceptual
design. This approach is very useful for designing the conceptual design because it is very
efficient for designing any kind of system. In the end, it can be concluded that this technique
can be used to provide efficiency in the conceptual design.
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