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Innovation by Boundary Shifting

To form, or enrich, an operative image of a future solution, a movement outside the problem delimitations can be required (Löwgren and Stolterman 2004). This method consists of four stages:

  1. Identify the necessary functions that a system must have to fulfil the desirable objective.
  2. Identify conflicts between the current way to bring about the necessary functions within the suggested problem delimitations.
  3. Identify resources outside the suggested problem delimitations that could be used to transform the problem.
  4. Search for functioning sub-solutions to the problem that could make it possible to use the new resources. 

 

Read more: 

Lindköpings Universitet, Lindköping. Löwgren, J., and E. Stolterman. 2004. Design av informationsteknik - Materialet utan egenskaper. Second ed. Lund: Studentlitteratur.

———. 2004. Thoughtful Interaction Design. A design perspective on Information Technology. Massachusetts: MIT Press.