Toby Scott Design for Innovation

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The June instalment of "The Juice" breakfast series, sponsored by the Synergy Centre, Institute of Technology Tallaght: presentation on industrial design by Dr Toby Scott.Toby was founding director of the Centre for Design Innovation (www.designinnovation.ie), a Director of the Design Council in the UK (www.designcouncil.org.uk) and is currently helping to establish a Centre for Design Innovation in Scotland. Toby is now taking the learning from these roles and applying them through an international business school that places design-thinking at the heart of business success (www.pentaclethevbs.com). He is passionate about innovation within small and medium sized companies and helps develop concrete ideas that are affordable and work in practice.

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Toby Scott

The Juice breakfast briefing16 June 2009

t: 01 443 3761

m: 087 417 6177

e: toby.scott@pentacle.ie

w: pentacle.ie

I am not a designer...

T H E V I R T U A L B U S I N E S S S C H O O LCOPYRIGHT 2006 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Change is the new black

Before Now

We don’t know what people really want

We struggle to communicate change

We want to reduce risk

Design does 3 things:

1. Looks through the eyes of the end user

Design does 3 things:

2. Makes things visible and tangible

Design does 3 things:

3. Prototypes solutions in context

PriceQualityTechnology

Problem

The Design Difference

Centre forDesign Innovation

The Design Difference

• 405 Irish SMEs

• Republic and Northern Ireland

• Range of sectors

• Published 2007

Irish companies that use design are more successful

than those that don’t

• They innovate more often

• They innovate more successfully

• Grow more rapidly

• They don’t compete as much on price

The ‘Design Staircase’ is a registered trademark of the Danish Design Centre

2.5 X

• Companies that use design strategically are more than 2.5 times more likely

to experience growth in demand

Only 15% of Irish SMEs use design

strategically.

BUT...

Isn’t this just market research?

‘Me too’

Explicit needs

‘Leap frog’

Latent

needs

Large numbers

Quantitative

Small numbers

Qualitative

EthnographyQuestionnaire

surveys

Focus groups

DesignThinking

Comparing research methods

Great for innovation!Great for validation!

Comparing research methods

EthnographyQuestionnaire

surveys

Focus groups

DesignThinking

Extreme users will tell you more than ‘core’ users.

Ask why they are rejecters or power users?

Extreme users

Becoming a design thinker

Identify !Who are your users?

Look ! Observe your users

Ask ! Involve your users

Try !! Become your user

Exercise

Identify Look Involve Try

Centre forDesign Innovation

Who pays for it?

Who uses it day to day?

Who told someone else to buy it?

Who selects this product for retail?

Who transports or delivers it?

Who installs it?

Who sells it to the customer?

Who looks after it if it goes wrong?

Who makes it?

Identify Look Ask Try

Rubbish bin

Identify Look Ask Try

Identify !Who are your users?

Look ! Observe your users

Ask ! Involve your users

Try !! Become your user

Identify Look Ask Try

Exercise

Identify Look Ask Try

Rubbish bin

Identify Look Ask Try

Identify !Who are your users?

Look ! Observe your users

Ask ! Involve your users

Try !! Become your user

Rubbish bin

Identify Look Ask Try

Identify !Who are your users?

Look ! Observe your users

Ask ! Involve your users

Try !! Become your user

Prototyping Maxims

“Fail early to succeed sooner…”

“Build to think…”

Identify Look Ask Try

Rubbish bin

(Analogous products)

Identify Look Ask Try

Identify !Who are your users?

Look ! Observe your users

Ask ! Involve your users

Try !! Become your user

Thank You

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