Design-Inspired Innovation
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, Applied Sciences, Business & Finance, Management & Leadership, Management Science
| Author: | James Utterback, Bengt-Arne Vedin, Eduardo Alvarez;Sten Ekman;Susan Walsh Sanderson;Bruce Tether;Roberto Verganti | ISBN: | 9789814365536 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company | Publication: | December 1, 2006 |
| Imprint: | WSPC | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Utterback, Bengt-Arne Vedin, Eduardo Alvarez;Sten Ekman;Susan Walsh Sanderson;Bruce Tether;Roberto Verganti |
| ISBN: | 9789814365536 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company |
| Publication: | December 1, 2006 |
| Imprint: | WSPC |
| Language: | English |
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.
Contents:
- What Makes Products Great?
- Creating Design Classics
- Integrating Function and Design
- Managing the Design Process
- The Work of Designers
- Design-Inspired Innovation and the Design Discourse
- Broadening Human Possibilities Through Design
- Design — Vision and Visualizing
- Interview Questions for Designers and Design Firms
- From Sketch to Product
Readership: Faculty and students in art, media, innovation studies in management and engineering; practitioners in design and innovation firms and design centers.
Key Features:
- Written in a very accessible and captivating manner, suitable for non-academics and academics alike
- First author, Prof James M Utterback (MIT), is well-known in the field of Innovation Management
- Authors, who are all distinguished researchers, includes a creative and talented product designer
- Provides insights on how a designer or designing company can compete with a combination of leadership, organizational and design skills
- Provides an international, multi-faceted and multi-level perspective on the design process
- Includes interviews with the founders of nearly 100 design firms in four countries (Sweden, Italy, England and USA) — and in several industries
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.
Contents:
- What Makes Products Great?
- Creating Design Classics
- Integrating Function and Design
- Managing the Design Process
- The Work of Designers
- Design-Inspired Innovation and the Design Discourse
- Broadening Human Possibilities Through Design
- Design — Vision and Visualizing
- Interview Questions for Designers and Design Firms
- From Sketch to Product
Readership: Faculty and students in art, media, innovation studies in management and engineering; practitioners in design and innovation firms and design centers.
Key Features:
- Written in a very accessible and captivating manner, suitable for non-academics and academics alike
- First author, Prof James M Utterback (MIT), is well-known in the field of Innovation Management
- Authors, who are all distinguished researchers, includes a creative and talented product designer
- Provides insights on how a designer or designing company can compete with a combination of leadership, organizational and design skills
- Provides an international, multi-faceted and multi-level perspective on the design process
- Includes interviews with the founders of nearly 100 design firms in four countries (Sweden, Italy, England and USA) — and in several industries
