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.
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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.
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.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Utterback, James M. Design-Inspired Innovation Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company,c2006
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Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2006.