As Industrial Designers handle information within the early stages of the design process they are influenced by the information viewed and the Information Retrieval Systems (IRS) that they utilise. The purpose of this research is to investigate the influences that Information Retrieval Systems such as Search Engines, the Internet and Academic Databases have on Industrial Designers' searching strategies. The study involves the observation of designers transforming early design language into query 'keyword' language for the operation of IRS's and how this transition causes a design direction shift.
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