New-to-the-World Product Design
& Development
The
Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic of Innovation1
by
IDEO
-a World Leading Product Design Firm |
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Observation
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Brainstorming
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Prototyping
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Evaluating and
Refining New Product Design |
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Plan on a series of
improvements - no idea is so good that it can't be
improved upon
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Get input from everybody
- from your internal team, from the client team, from people who
make up the target market, from knowledge people not directly
involved in your project
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Test and improve
- watch for what works and what doesn't, what people seem to like,
what confuses them, and incrementally improve the product in the
next round.
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Five Stages of the Design Process |
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Preparation of concepts
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Detailed design
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Production of prototypes
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Testing
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Final design
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Why Companies Outsource New Product
Design and Development: The Four Key Reasons1 |
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Innovation: leading companies
have an almost insatiable thirst for new knowledge, expertise,
methodologies, and work practices around
innovation.
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Raw capacity:
companies have a bigger appetite than their in-house resources could
satisfy
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Speed: companies look outside if
they have low capacity for
moving with speed and cannot find
anybody in-house to sign up to some incredibly tight deadline
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Specific expertise:
companies require specific expertise outside their core competencies
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The Secret Formula:
Building Innovation Into Your Organization
Success depends on both
what you do and
how you do it. There are
specific elements
that help you and your company to be more innovative. But it's not a matter
of simply following directions. The 'secret formula' is actually not very
formulaic. It's blend of culture, methodologies, infrastructure, and
work practices.1
Brainstorming
Brainstorming is not just a valuable creative tool at the
fuzzy front end of projects. It's also "a
pervasive cultural influence for making sure that individuals don't waste
too much energy spinning their wheels on a tough problem when the collective
wisdom of the team can get them "unstuck" in less than an hour."4...More
Design for Environment (DfE)
Design for Environment (DfE), also known as eco-design
of green design, recognizes that environmental impacts
must be considered during the design process, along with all of the usual
design criteria.
The purpose of green design is to evaluate and identify ways to minimize the
environmental burden resulting from products.
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