Thursday, 19 June 2008

A1. Identifying Opportunities for Design

Corporate identity
(business objective - design demand)
  1. To start a new company - Logo
  2. To be a design leader - Global design
  3. To launch a new product or store - Concept development and new product development
  4. To launch a brand - Name development and graphic design
  5. To increase a market share - Web and packaging design
  6. To regain market share - Redesign
  7. To diversify into a new market - Product design or brand extension
  8. To improve R&D (research & development) policy - Concept development

Driving from changing circumstances
source: Press and Cooper, 2004

Social
  • Demographic change - alternative lifestyles leading to demand for new products and services
  • Family structures - Traditional family unit replaced by flexible models of parenting
  • New customer values - growth of environmental values, rising level of cynism about 'branded' goods
  • Patterns of work - Flexible employment, portfolio lives, new relationships between education, work and leasure
Political
  • Environment - legislation to encourage more sustainable thinking
  • Creative economy - legislation to support business and education for the creative industries
  • Democratic systems - increase in participative and consultative processes and in local and regional government
  • Crime and copyright - employing technology and design to protect against copyright infringement
Market forces
  • Product differentiation and innovation - new technologies and diversifying markets providing source of difference to satisfy customer demands
  • Usability - the rise of more usable and inclusive designs for experienced consumers and increasingly ageing populations
  • Customisation - demand for individuality of products and services
  • Eco-lifestyles - move to sustainable lifestyles and waste-reducing practices
Technological
  • Wearable technology - growth of body-based electronics, fashion and jewellery
  • Communications systems - new living, working and education patterns driven by the internet
  • Smart materials - Innovations in embedding intelligence into materials, products and systems
  • Smart organisations - Virtual corporations and communities driving changes in organisational structures

Tools and methods for identifying design opportunities:
  • PEST analysis
  • SWOT analysis
  • Competitive analysis - perceptual mapping
  • Paradigm of change
  • Scenarios
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For Major Project:

Corporate identity
  • To improve R&D policy - Concept development

Market forces
  • Product differentiation and innovation - new technologies and diversifying markets providing source of difference to satisfy customer demands
Tools and methods for identifying design opportunities:
  • Scenarios

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