The capability to create product architectures is very important for industrial designers, because it is the arrangement of functional elements of a product into physical blocks in earlier design stages. This study attends to explore how the designers create product architectures. Two experiments are conducted to examine the aspects that are related to the capabilities. Three findings were obtained as follows: (1) the resource for the designers to generate product architecture is the given design cases, rather than the given design guidelines, (2) the relationship between the designers' capabilities to remodel product appearances and to represent product architectures is not significant, and (3) the relationship between the designers' use of product functional diagrams and their capabilities of product architectures is not significant. The results of this study could be applied to both of the areas of design practice and education. The further studies should include the inquiry on how the designers generate innovative product architectures by means of analogy.
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