Innovation Strategies
A small improvement to an existing product.
What is an incremental innovation?
Innovation driven by consumer demand or market needs.
What is a market pull innovation?
When designers identify a gap in the market or a problem that has not yet been solved, this becomes a strong factor encouraging innovation.
What is a product gap?
This key characteristic of classic design refers to products that remain fashionable and desirable over long periods of time.
What is timelessness?
This percentile range is typically used in ergonomic design to ensure a product accommodates the majority of users.
What is 5th to 95th percentile?
It allows a company to delay innovation for strategic reasons.
What is one benefit of suppression strategy in innovation?
Smartphones, electric, etc.
What is an example of a radical innovation?
Advances in materials, electronics, or manufacturing processes often encourage the development of new products. This is known as this driver of innovation.
What is technological development?
Many classic designs were produced using skilled hand techniques rather than automated industrial methods. This production method is known as:
What is craft production?
This concept evaluates the environmental impact of a product from raw material extraction through production, use, and disposal.
What is life cycle analysis (LCA)?
What is the difference between adaptation and hybridization?
Adaptation modifies an existing product; hybridization combines features from two or more sources.
Services like Netflix or digital music players that change how consumers access media represent this type of innovation.
What is disruptive innovation?
High costs of research, development, or production can prevent new ideas from reaching the market.
What is financial risk (or cost)?
Classic designs are often easily recognizable and strongly associated with a specific culture, movement, or time period. This characteristic is known as:
What is iconic status?
This category of materials is made from long chains of molecules and includes thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics.
What are polymers?
How does analogy work as an innovation strategy?
It solves problems by applying solutions from unrelated fields
This type of innovation recombines existing technologies in a new way to create a different product or reach a new market.
What is architectural innovation?
When consumers are satisfied with existing solutions or unwilling to change their behaviour, innovation may struggle to succeed due to this barrier.
What is market resistance?
Classic designs often continue to be valued even when they are no longer technologically advanced. This ability is described as:
What is transcendence of function (or transcend obsolescence)?
This design principle emphasizes simplicity and states that the shape of a product should primarily relate to its function.
What is form follows function?
This innovation strategy focuses on identifying consumer needs first and then developing solutions to meet those needs.
What is market pull?
When an innovation improves an existing product over time through multiple versions, such as updated models with enhanced features, it represents this type of innovation.
What is incremental innovation?
Laws, patents, and government regulations can either encourage innovation by protecting ideas or prevent innovation by restricting development.
What is legislation (or regulation)?
A product that creates strong first impressions based on appearance is generating this type of emotional response.
What is visceral response?
This theory explains how new products are adopted over time by innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards.
What is diffusion of innovation?