Incremental and Radical Innovation: Design Research vs. Technology and Meaning Change

Some Aspects of Using Universal Design as a Redesign Strategy for Sustainability

“…combining UD and sustainability. In their research, Norman and Verganti [11] concluded that it is very much possible to reach a meaningful radical innovation result through design-driven research, and for doing this, research directions should be changed towards new meaningful interpretation for users. Following this, we state that the traditional way of interpreting UD seems to be in a loophole and by looking into UD as a redesign strategy for promoting sustainability through design is a novel concept and can produce meaningful results for the end users by triggering radical innovation, which was argued in this paper.…”

“…Norman and Verganti [11] addressed the hill-climbing paradigm to describe how incremental and radical innovation can take place and also explained that there is a need to change the frames of different solutions for a radical design movement. Both UD and sustainability are well known for creating several solution frames within their respective domains.…”

“…What is needed now is to do something with both UD and sustainability that has not been done before and thereby triggering and unfolding the radical design movement. Norman and Verganti [11] also claimed that most radical innovations were done without the help of design research and therefore are a weakness of any radical design thought. Understanding and incorporating an advanced concept of UD as a design philosophy in the form of redesign strategies could therefore work as a trigger in a radical design movement for sustainability.…”

Materiality Matters: Exploring the use of design tools in innovation workshops with the craft and creative sector in the Northern Isles of Scotland

“…2.2 Design-led innovation: a participatory process Design-led innovation interventions establish creative coalitions of design practitioners, design researchers, multidisciplinary experts, entrepreneurs, users, and communities (Norman & Verganti, 2014). Such design approaches have been suggested to contribute to more qualitative goals within economic growth and innovation (Johnson et al, 2016, pp.21-28) and more nuanced forms of evaluating KE impact (Fremantle et al, 2016).…”

“…Design-led innovation interventions are argued to help develop and establish successful collaborations of individuals with diverse and multi-disciplinary backgrounds (Norman & Verganti, 2014). The key tenets of a design innovation approach include: being participatory, user-centred, favouring collaboration and multi-disciplinarity; using experimentation and prototyping and undertaking an iterative approach (Lockwood, 2009).…”