your top3 product design innovations from the past 10yrs?

Design Discussions general design discussion
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what are your top3 product design innovations from the past 10 yrs?

perhaps you can identify their innovative elements from the following:

  • a fresh appreciation of user needs

  • competitive advantage

  • application of technical developments

  • transfer or technology, or

  • a response to environmental or legislative factors

2

This is an easy one for me since I graduated 10 years ago. Here’s the things they didn’t teach then, but are essentials now:

  1. Integrated New Product Development
  2. Strategic Design Planning
  3. Interaction Design
3

agreed. i graduate next year and this year has seen quite a bit of interaction design working its way into our modules.

perhaps i should have worded my question better though! :slight_smile:

i was asking for everyones top3 innovative products from the past 10 yrs.

for example one of your choices could be the i-pod.
it applied the mp3 format (a new technological development at the time) into a slick and (mostly) well designed product. the i-pod was pretty much an innovation when it was first released. and is now a best seller as we all know.

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Innovative Products

  1. Palm
  2. iPod
  3. Tivo

My runners up were more the result of inevitable technology:
Digital Cameras
Hybrid Engine
3D Printers
Flip phones

Innovative Services
World Wide Web
eBay
Wikipedia
Netflix
Podcasts
GPS
Google Maps

Innovative, but not products:
Mars Exploration Rovers
Spaceship One

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Netflix=Super Brilliant Genius.