Abstract

Although much work exists to describe design-driven meaning innovation, few provide objective tools to identify and measure meaning innovation. Within the context of everyday design and adopting conceptual blending theory, we identify and assesses design-driven innovation in meaning within cases of IKEA product hacking as examples of higher-level everyday design. Conceptual blending is used as a scaffold for a content analysis of 100 IKEA hacks to identify 60 cases of meaning change. These cases are further assessed through objective meaning innovation scores derived from conceptual blending theory. A user evaluation is then conducted through a pair-wise comparison of the 60 cases to derive meaning innovation scores. The results indicate, although personal biases, idiosyncrasies, and life experiences inevitably influence evaluation of innovation through conceptual blending, that the approach has potential as an objective means to identify and evaluate design-driven meaning innovation in cases of everyday design. Finally, broader implications for assessing meaning innovation are discussed.

摘要

尽管有很多工作来描述设计驱动的意义创新，但很少有人提供客观的工具来识别和衡量意义创新。在日常设计和采用概念融合理论的背景下，我们在宜家产品黑客案例中识别和评估设计驱动创新的意义，作为更高层次的日常设计示例。概念混合被用作对 100 个宜家黑客进行内容分析的支架，以识别 60 个意义变化的案例。这些案例通过概念融合理论得出的客观意义创新分数进一步评估。然后通过对 60 个案例的成对比较进行用户评估，以获得意义创新分数。结果表明，尽管个人偏见、特质、生活经历不可避免地会通过概念融合影响对创新的评估，这种方法有可能作为一种客观的手段来识别和评估日常设计中设计驱动的意义创新。最后，讨论了评估意义创新的更广泛意义。