Design For Innovation

In the fifth session of Information systems’ class we discussed different ideas and thoughts about what Design for Innovation is? What is Innovation and what is not?
Innovation basically is an idea or invention that needs to be translated into a product or service. This product or service must have a value for people so they can pay for it and then use it. It is clearly obvious that any new idea must be offered to the public and must have an economic value in order to be considered as an innovation.
Let us have a look at the pictures of the nice designed house above to see whether it is innovatively designed or not? This house was designed by one of the Japanese architectures; he came up with this new design of housing as a solution to space problems in different places in Japan.
In this example the invention of this new idea or new design is not only the important thing even if it was the mother of necessity! But also bringing it to market, putting it into practice and exploiting it in a manner that leads to a new product makes it valuable and more important to meet people's needs. This new innovative design involves new technologies to generate new value and also to bring about significant changes in society. It is also obvious that this new innovative design of housing changed people’s life or their way of living, but it is still not the main point! Basically without having an economic value for the idea and without translating it into something useful and real to meet people needs in the public, we can’t consider it as an innovation. The idea by itself is not valuable, because nobody is going to buy a drawn house on a piece of paper; it is useless and has no value. Actually, the idea by itself is an invention which only has a value to the inventor himself. People may like the idea but it still has no impact on them since it has no value for them. People rather want to see a valuable product or service that satisfies their needs and has something valuable for them. This house can be used by different people and may solve different place problems in Japan added to that its economic value, that’s why people would pay for it and treat it as a successful design for innovation.