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Designers as innovators: The role and practice of a designer in driving innovation
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The recent success of design-driven companies has generated much inquiry into the question of what is design thinking because many companies have begun to realize how design thinking affects their competitiveness. However, these companies do not understand the so-called design-driven process, and therefore it is harder for them to implement a successful outcome. My desire to be an active member of the design community and discourse started a three-year-long investigation into understanding the designer’s role and practice in driving innovation. My investigation into past design practitioners has shown that a succession of design thinking was the result of an evolution of thoughts and writings from various influential thinkers, beginning with the Industrial Revolution. The literature reviews I studied revealed a set of frameworks that created an environment with the right conditions to foster good ideas. I further determined how these good ideas had the best chance to succeed and how the working relationship between the interpreters was developed. I then reviewed concepts and studies from sociology in order to understand the factors and traits that influenced those interpreters. I formulated and presented a practice with a design project as the thesis case study. I have tested the design and presented the results.
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- Date created
- 2015-11-09
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- Wood working
- Manufacturing
- Designer
- Industrial design thesis
- Apple
- Product design
- Wooden chilld's toy
- Role and practice
- CUBOS
- Kickstarter
- Victor Papanek
- Business
- Carpentry
- Hartmut Esslinger
- Design driven innovation
- William Morris
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Engineering
- Anson Wong
- Robert Verganti
- Innovations
- John Ruskin
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- Type of Item
- Research Material