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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas. Take the iPod for example.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

Integrating Effective Prototyping into Your Design Process – Fred Beecher Senior User Experience Consultant Fred Beecher shows his audience how to determine what, for your particular situation, is the most effective way to use prototyping to improve the user experience of your site or software. And that’s a shame.

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IA Summit 09 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Additionally, Nate identifies the key considerations when designing a mobile ethnographic study, indicating how technological developments in the future might be used to improve upon current methods. He distinguishes good rules from bad and offers a framework for designing and documenting them. Download. Download.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

In a flash of insight, he realized that software could replace pencil-and-paper accounting for everyone. They had users try their new software, Quicken, while they ran a stopwatch. Then they’d tweak the software and retest until processes that took an hour were reduced to a quarter of that.

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