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It states that users tend to prefer those products that reflect their own attitudes and value orientations at its best. In order to fulfil these expectations with an appropriate product design, both user attitudes as well as a product's overall impression need to be instrumentarised. Therefore, models and instruments from the current state of the art are adopted into an easy to follow, understandable process chain. Lastly, functional relationships between product appearance and design parameters allow a specific product variation management. Therein, ACADE's transparent data architecture and mathematical solvers support the optimisation of subjective value criteria. Simple processes and the integration of result verification allow a quick, understandable and flexible application. Several different study examples from bionics, medical engineering or mobility demonstrate the versatility and usability of ACADE. 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