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TY - JOUR
T1 - Design, the Language of Innovation
T2 - A Review of the Design Studies Literature
AU - Hernadez, Ricardo
AU - Cooper, Rachel
AU - Tether, Bruce
AU - Murphy, Emma
PY - 2018/10
Y1 - 2018/10
N2 - There is a vast body of research exploring the myriad ways design can contribute to business success. For example, businesses seeing to generate new products, services, processes, models, and strategies as part of their efforts to innovate often turn to design for support and leverage. But how clearly have scholars defined the relationship between design and innovation? Is it even possible to explain the connection between the two? In this article, we investigate whether the design literature published over the past thirty years contains an answer to these questions. We organize our findings into clusters describing the key roles that design activity plays in the innovation process, how designers personally play a part, and the internal and external factors that contribute to design/innovation associations. We also introduce the notion that design language—be it visual, methodological, or procedural—has become not only an organizing principle that supports innovative initiatives, it has become the language of innovation itself.
AB - There is a vast body of research exploring the myriad ways design can contribute to business success. For example, businesses seeing to generate new products, services, processes, models, and strategies as part of their efforts to innovate often turn to design for support and leverage. But how clearly have scholars defined the relationship between design and innovation? Is it even possible to explain the connection between the two? In this article, we investigate whether the design literature published over the past thirty years contains an answer to these questions. We organize our findings into clusters describing the key roles that design activity plays in the innovation process, how designers personally play a part, and the internal and external factors that contribute to design/innovation associations. We also introduce the notion that design language—be it visual, methodological, or procedural—has become not only an organizing principle that supports innovative initiatives, it has become the language of innovation itself.
KW - Design
KW - Innovation
KW - Design studies
KW - Roles of design
KW - Literature review
U2 - 10.1016/j.sheji.2018.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.sheji.2018.06.001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 4
SP - 249
EP - 274
JO - She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
JF - She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
SN - 2405-8726
IS - 3
ER -