This presentation was given at Hacker Lab for Sacramento User Experience Meetup. It explores innovative process improvements as well as disruptive innovation using methodologies from The Luma Institute, IDEO, and Cooper Design.
7. Quantity -> Quality
• The best way to have a good idea is to have
lots of ideas. – Linus Pauling
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8. Disruptive Innovation
• “People talk about wanting innovation. But innovation is a
process result. Imagination is the fuel! You’re not going to get
innovation if you don’t have imagination. The issue is not to ask
your customers what they want today, but to try to imagine what
the customer is going to want in a world where, for instance, their
cellphone is in their glasses. If you ask your customers what you
want, you will not get disruptive innovation.”
– WSJ Innovation Conference
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14. Cross Pollination
– Unexpected juxtapositions
• Jacquard loom -> Computer punch cards (seriously!)
• Wright Brothers (bicycles)
– Ability to see patterns others don’t
• And apply patterns to new contexts
– Approach problems from unusual angles
– Fueled by diversity
– Limited by silos
– Often fueled by doing without
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15. Doing Without: Zeer vs.
Refrigeration
• Evaporative cooling by porous
earthenware pot filled with wet sand
and glazed inner pot
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18. Contextual Inquiry and Design
Innovation
• Don’t ask. Observe!
– Learn what people actually DO!
– Learn why they DO!
– Uncover latent needs
• Be curious! Why? What? How? When?
• What if…?
• Pretend it’s magic!
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19. Contextual Inquiry
• Context - observe work where it’s actually
done
• Partnership – engage them in uncovering
unarticulated parts of their work
• Interpretation – develop a shared
understanding
• Focus – direct the inquiry with a clear
understanding of your own purpose
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20. Deepen Understanding
We are not our users!
Observation & Talk to Users
• Fly On the Wall
• Interviewing
• Immersion
Research
• Industry Reports
• Internet
• Blogs
• etc
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21. Who are these people?
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Purpose
Likes
Dislikes
Pain Points
Hopes
Fears
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26. 6 Innovation Questions
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What could we look at in a new way?
What could we use in a new way?
What could we move into a new context?
What could we connect in a new way?
What could we change?
What could we create that is truly new? (The
rarest form of innovation)
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To create the movable type,Gutenberg connected the idea of the wine press and the coin stamp. To create the concept of a mass-circulation newspaper, Joseph Pulitzer combined large-scale advertising with high-speed printing. Great ideas may even seem to be random at times – but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing you can do to develop them.
Einstein is famous for his theory of relativity, but he published 248 other papers.
Bach wrote a cantata every week, even when ill or fatigued.
Mozart produced more than 600 musical works.
Thomas Edison held nothing less than 1093 patents. Imagine, then the amount of his non-patented work…