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Design-Inspired Innovation.
2006
Details
Title
Design-Inspired Innovation.
Item Type
Book
Description
1 online resource (28 pages)
ISBN
9789812774088 electronic book
Summary
When an innovation is inspired by design, it transcends technology and utility. The design delights the user, seamlessly integrating the physical object, a service, and its use into something whole. A design-inspired innovation is so simple that it becomes an extension of the user. It creates meaning and a new language.Design-Inspired Innovation takes a unique look at the intersection between design and innovation, and explores the novel ways in which designers are contributing to the development of products and services. The book's scope is international, with emphasis on design activities in Boston, England, Sweden, and Milan. Through a rich variety of cases and cultural prisms, the book extends the traditional design viewpoint and stretches the context of industrial design to question - and answer - what design is really all about. It gives readers tools for inspiration, and shows how design can change language and even create human possibilities.
Note
Description based upon print version of record.
When an innovation is inspired by design, it transcends technology and utility. The design delights the user, seamlessly integrating the physical object, a service, and its use into something whole. A design-inspired innovation is so simple that it becomes an extension of the user. It creates meaning and a new language.Design-Inspired Innovation takes a unique look at the intersection between design and innovation, and explores the novel ways in which designers are contributing to the development of products and services. The book's scope is international, with emphasis on design activities in Boston, England, Sweden, and Milan. Through a rich variety of cases and cultural prisms, the book extends the traditional design viewpoint and stretches the context of industrial design to question - and answer - what design is really all about. It gives readers tools for inspiration, and shows how design can change language and even create human possibilities.
When an innovation is inspired by design, it transcends technology and utility. The design delights the user, seamlessly integrating the physical object, a service, and its use into something whole. A design-inspired innovation is so simple that it becomes an extension of the user. It creates meaning and a new language.Design-Inspired Innovation takes a unique look at the intersection between design and innovation, and explores the novel ways in which designers are contributing to the development of products and services. The book's scope is international, with emphasis on design activities in Boston, England, Sweden, and Milan. Through a rich variety of cases and cultural prisms, the book extends the traditional design viewpoint and stretches the context of industrial design to question - and answer - what design is really all about. It gives readers tools for inspiration, and shows how design can change language and even create human possibilities.
Formatted Contents Note
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1 What Makes Products Great?
What is design-inspired innovation? How does it lead to competitive advantage?
What strategies encourage design-inspired innovation?
Why is simplicity key to achieving customer delight?
How is the innovation process changing?
What is to follow?
Chapter 2 Creating Design Classics
The design classic
Platform design classics
Making a strong design statement
Apple's iPod
The challenge for the future.
Chapter 3 Integrating Function and Design
What is "design"? What is research and development?
The growth of outside design services
Clustering of firms
Chapter 4 Managing the Design Process
An ideal design
Architecture and modularity
Transparent interfaces
Open standards and open source innovation
The design and innovation system in Boston
Synthesis and integration
Chapter 5 The Work of Designers
Design firms' operations and processes
Design avenues to innovation
Some lessons.
Chapter 6 Design-Inspired Innovation and the Design Discourse
Design as innovation of meanings
Giving meaning to design
Pursuing design-inspired innovation
The design discourse
The design discourse in the Milan system
Involving designers as brokers of languages
Chapter 7 Broadening Human Possibilities Through Design
The wheelchair as an extension of body and mind
Lead users as innovators
An innovative mobility device
The making of meaning and meaningful products
Broadening possibilities through design.
Chapter 8 Design - Vision and Visualizing
Why design now?
Visual versus verbal
Numbers versus stories
Communicating through sketching
Provocation
Visualization
Playing with real objects and analogs
Deep simplicity?
Appendix A Interview Questions for Designers and Design Firms
Appendix B From Sketch to Product
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1 What Makes Products Great?
What is design-inspired innovation? How does it lead to competitive advantage?
What strategies encourage design-inspired innovation?
Why is simplicity key to achieving customer delight?
How is the innovation process changing?
What is to follow?
Chapter 2 Creating Design Classics
The design classic
Platform design classics
Making a strong design statement
Apple's iPod
The challenge for the future.
Chapter 3 Integrating Function and Design
What is "design"? What is research and development?
The growth of outside design services
Clustering of firms
Chapter 4 Managing the Design Process
An ideal design
Architecture and modularity
Transparent interfaces
Open standards and open source innovation
The design and innovation system in Boston
Synthesis and integration
Chapter 5 The Work of Designers
Design firms' operations and processes
Design avenues to innovation
Some lessons.
Chapter 6 Design-Inspired Innovation and the Design Discourse
Design as innovation of meanings
Giving meaning to design
Pursuing design-inspired innovation
The design discourse
The design discourse in the Milan system
Involving designers as brokers of languages
Chapter 7 Broadening Human Possibilities Through Design
The wheelchair as an extension of body and mind
Lead users as innovators
An innovative mobility device
The making of meaning and meaningful products
Broadening possibilities through design.
Chapter 8 Design - Vision and Visualizing
Why design now?
Visual versus verbal
Numbers versus stories
Communicating through sketching
Provocation
Visualization
Playing with real objects and analogs
Deep simplicity?
Appendix A Interview Questions for Designers and Design Firms
Appendix B From Sketch to Product
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Utterback, James M. Design-Inspired Innovation Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company,c2006
Published
Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006.
Language
Danish
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