Research Method and Key Design Themes of a Multifunctional Jacket with Optoelectronic Effects

Abstract

A method of modified innovative product design and development has been developed and used for a design work of innovative and multifunctional jackets with optoelectronic technologies in this study. This method has five working steps, including opportunity definition, opportunity exploration, opportunity confirmation, opportunity realization and achievement valuation. At first, the method of personas was used to develop key factors of design themes for an innovative jacket, and then the Delphi method was utilized to identify these factors by a group of experts. This paper described the design method, and illustrated the process to find out and decide design criteria for developing a jacket with optoelectronic effect.