| Name | Mockup Design |
| Abbreviation | MOD |
| Learning Cost | 100 |
| Playing Cost | 200 |
| Suggested Phases |
Engineers
| Mechanical Engineer | Industrial Design | System Engineer | Electrical Engineer | Production Engineer | Software Engineer |
| ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Technique and Issue Views
| BusinessNeeds | Stakeholder | Stakeholder Needs | System Requirements | System Structure Architecture |
| ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ |
| System Functional Architecture | Detail Hardware Design | Detail Service Design | Detail Software Design | Manufacturing Operations |
| ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Technique Traits
| Identify Stakeholders | Elicit Needs | Remove Ambiguity | Layman's Terms | Technical Terms | Teamworkings |
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Traceability | Prioritizing | Exploring Breadth | Inside the Box | Outside the box | V&V |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Verification and Validation
| Analysis | Calculus | Inspection | Demonstration | Test |
| ✗ | ✗ | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ |
A mockup is a useful tool for designers in both the engineering of a physical product and/or software. When engineering a physical product, a mockup is a model made from cheap materials in a short period of time to give an idea about how the product is going to look and how it can be handled. [1]
In software engineering it is used to brainstorm or figure out what needs to be built and can be used to define expectations and objectives. [2] Mockups first appeared in physical design engineering but were soon adopted in military and aerospace engineering as well as it was a useful tool to show, market and test new designs. In the new online age mockups are also often used in software engineering to show how a webpage is going to look before it is developed. [3]
Mockup for physical designs as used in military, aerospace, industrial design engineering and systems engineering is used mainly in big projects. This is done to test a preliminary design, for example to test aerodynamics or human interaction with the design by training. It can also be used to make reliability and maintainability visible, to convey a design, and as a marketing tool [1]. The latter one is especially applicable in industrial design engineering.
