Abstract

In recent years, meaning-driven radical innovation has attracted more widespread attention from design researchers than technology-driven radical innovation. This study aimed to better understand the essence of meaning-driven radical innovation. We compared 119 meaning-driven radical products selected from the 100 Great Designs of Modern Times (published by Fortune in 2020) as well as from three international design awards—the International Design Excellence Awards, Red Dot Product Design, and iF Product Design—with similar products during the same period on the market. We defined a product characteristic framework for meaning-driven radical innovation, including five categories: version, function, experience, scope, and architecture. The percentage of each category was analysed using the comments accompanying the winning of the awards. The results showed that meaning-driven radical products had significantly more vision and experience category characteristics than similar products.

摘要

近年来，意义驱动的激进创新比技术驱动的激进创新更受到设计研究者的广泛关注。本研究旨在更好地理解意义驱动的激进创新的本质。我们比较了选自《现代 100 项伟大设计》（《财富》杂志 2020 年发布）以及国际设计卓越奖、红点产品设计奖和 iF 产品设计三项国际设计大奖中选出的 119 件以意义为导向的激进产品，以及同期市场上的同类产品。我们定义了意义驱动的激进创新的产品特征框架，包括版本、功能、体验、范围和架构五个类别。使用获奖时的评论来分析每个类别的百分比。