Seeking Insights Into An Unknown Future: Exploring Designers’ Strategies To Discover Key Insights

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Abstract

Insights play a significant role in creation of new products. Insights provide the designer with an understanding of the user, market, technologies and trends, and how these might change over time. This information is critical for the designer to get an understanding of how and why present products succeed or fail. Hence, insights serve as both triggers and drivers for envisioning future products, but they are also fundamental to ensure that new products created will provide meaningful experiences to the users. In design literature, there is a significant amount of research on how to gather information about the user, market, trends, etc. However, very little research is focused on how the designer addresses this information to discover or uncover key insights. Through interviews with expert designers behind twelve products, we identified three strategies that designers use to discover insights. We found that designers search for insights that could be used to: 1) establish the product's future identity, 2) identify core challenges based on the new identity in the existing user experience and 3) identify solutions that could meet the core challenges and accentuate the new identity.
Original languageEnglish
Book seriesProceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design
Volume1
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)3999-4008
ISSN2220-4342
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
EventInternational Conference on Engineering Design - Delft, Netherlands
Duration: 5 Aug 20198 Aug 2019
Conference number: 22
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Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Engineering Design
Number22
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityDelft
Period05/08/201908/08/2019
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