Abstract

A tradespace is a visual representation of a set of concepts, developed by making a range of design decision, in a space defined by two or more metrics. The TRADESPACE UNIVERSE is a web-based interactive tool to perform a tradespace analysis using a traditional web-browser, instead of installing desktop-based softwares.

Complete whitepaper available here.

Application

Build / Install / Run

The application was developed in browser-based web-application form and has been deployed on Github Pages, so no additional installation process is required. It has been made available for public use* here: TRADESPACE UNIVERSE.

* Citations are not mandatory, but encouraged.

Features

The tool has been developed as a minimum viable product to gather user-feedback from students who study tradespace analysis as a part of their curriculum. The prioritized feature set includes:

• Build your tradespace
• Wizard-based user-experience
• User instructions at each step
• User validation to ensure data coverage
• Explore tradespace
• Filter concepts based on choice options
• Get more details on concept
• Customize axis labels & title for direct use in reports

Potential Improvements

• Multi-attribute tradespace analysis with custom utility calculation model
• Constraints input in build mode to filter infeasible concepts
• Enable range inputs for scores & prices, instead of fixed values
• Upload user data in csv format
• Download tradespace

Demo

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Team

Akshit Singla

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