Innovation through representation

Innovations are realised through design, and some of the most useful tools in the designer's toolbox are the representations that are used to move from a vague idea, to a concept, and then to a realised product, service or system. This free course, Innovation through representation, explores what innovation is and how representations are used to develop and communicate visions of innovation.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 What is innovation?
• 1 What is innovation?
• 1.1 Defining Innovation
• 1.2 Outputs of innovation
• 1.3 Sources of innovation
• 2 Talking about representations
• 2 Talking about representations
• 2.1 Visions of innovation
• 2.2 Using representations
• 3 What are representations for?
• 3 What are representations for?
• 3.1 Representations for communicating
• 3.2 Representations for thinking
• 3.3 Representations for describing
• 3.4 Multiple uses of representations
• 4 Persuading representations
• 4 Persuading representations
• 4.1 Representing visions for people
• 4.2 Representing context with statistics
• 4.3 Representing people in posters
• 4.4 Representing material things of the future
• 4.5 Representations have a purpose
• 5 Supporting innovation
• 5 Supporting innovation
• 6 Conclusion
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements