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When should a surveillance system that is used in preventive policing sacrifice the privacy of citizens to prevent criminality? What should be the impact of individual moral expectations when a social media platform designs an algorithm? To what degree can we use technology-driven deception in dementia care practices? And can we create a moral compass for a dashboard society? Over the last decade, the impact of technological innovation has been unprecedented. It has profoundly changed the way we participate and interact in society. It has also led to new moral challenges. Not only because of the technology itself, but also because this technology is used in the context of a globalised world with a more prominent role for the private sector. This can result in moral confusion: individuals who alternately assume the role of citizen and consumer feel unable to influence the design of technology that has a strong impact on their core values. Sustaining this moral confusion is in nobody's long-term interest. In this book, we propose to overcome this moral confusion by using a bottom-up design approach that incubates ethics when constructing new technologies. This book is composed of four parts. In the first part we focus on how to integrate moral decisions and morality in the design process of new technology. In the second part we assess how moral design relates to related discourse, including business ethics, law and policy. In the third part of this book various case studies are highlighted that focus on particular moral design issues at the crossroads of technological innovation in the public and private sector. In the last part we look ahead and discuss what the future might look like if we use moral design as a central approach in creating new technology. This book is relevant for IT and engineering professionals, business leaders and policymakers with innovation in their portfolios, and students of (applied) science who are interested in the moral design of technology. The chapters are written by experts and leading researchers in an attractive, accessible and practical writing style. Each chapter offers colourful examples and challenges the reader to critically think through moral decision-making and the design of innovation. See also the inaugural speech of Bart Wernaart on Moral Designs (on YouTube)

The importance of design for the success of product innovations has caught increasing attention of scholars lately (Rindova and Petkova, 2007, Verganti, 2008). Previous research is related to user-centered design (Brown, 2008, Veryzer and Borja de Mozota, 2005a), design contribution to NPD (Gemser and Leenders, 2001, Talke et al., 2009), or design-driven innovation (Dell'Era and erganti, 2009, Verganti, 2009). Apart from few seminal contributions (Clark, 1985, Dell'Era and Verganti, 2007a, Walsh, 1996) research on product innovations has yet insufficiently investigated the relationship of functional (i.e. technology) and design dimensions (i.e. aesthetics, product language). Drawing on the literature of dominant design (Abernathy and Utterback, 1978, Murmann and Frenken, 2006, Suárez and Utterback, 1995), technological evolution (Dosi, 1982, Iansiti and Khanna, 1995, Saviotti, 1996) and innovation in design (Borja de Mozota, 2003, Verganti, 2008) we suggest that product design innovations are related to technical innovation patterns and characteristics of technology trajectories. Hence, we explore the relationship of design and technological innovations throughout the evolution of product categories. We argue that periods of incremental technical change trigger the cumulative development of design innovations, where both technology and design continue to develop along previously established trajectories. Contrarily, after periods of disruptive technical change that transform previously established product architectures into new industry standards, design innovation becomes increasingly important. Emerging dominant technological designs open opportunities for innovation in design and hence trigger periods where design features become essential for product diversification. Our explorative study builds on two pairs of meso-level case studies. Both, the technical developments of loudspeakers (Borwick, 2001) and bicycles (Dowell, 2006, Dowell and Swaminathan, 2006) are characterized by incremental improvements where the products' architecture remained largely unchanged and thus product designs evolved along established paths. For instance, bicycles became stepwise equipped with increasingly complex suspension forks, gear systems and more efficient brakes but always maintained the 'original' product architecture. Similarly, the quality of loudspeakers has increased continuously while they became cheaper to manufacture due to stepwise enhanced membrane materials and constantly improved bandpass filters. On the contrary, technical developments of watches (Glasmeier, 1991) and cameras (Carranza, 2010, Chandy and Tellis, 2000) are characterized by major, disruptive technological changes altering the products' architecture that opened new design spaces for a variety of new product types. For instance, quartz watches allowed new designs due the replacement of mechanical clockworks. Also, the novel technical architecture of digital cameras enabled a range of new product designs (e.g. ultra compact or prosumer cameras). For our analysis we employ US patent data from 1970 onwards, using utility patents as proxy for technological and design patents as proxy for design innovations. To validate our findings we deepen our analysis with expert interviews from each industry and archival data. We contribute to previous research by deriving propositions on relationship of technology and design innovations. We propose that design innovation is stationary during eras of ferment, after technological discontinuities. Then, our findings suggest that the importance of design innovations increases strongly after the emergence of a dominant design, during the early stages of incremental change. In the later era of incremental change, we propose that incremental (cumulative) technology developments positively coevolve with continuous design developments.

An anthology that answers a need to understand design that supports the daily life of people with dementia. It intends to support the research and development around the topic of dementia in older people, which has stressed innovation, participation in the design process, as well as technical competence and the physical environment

Design and Technology involves children learning through processes that include identifying needs and opportunities, generating and developing ideas, planning, making and evaluating. The second edition fully reflects the latest revisions in the National Curriculum and links with other curricular changes in the intervening years. Specific links are made to the National Strategies for Literacy, Numeracy and ICT; to the National Standards for Subject Leaders; to Science and the other foundation subjects; to the QCA Scheme of Work for D & T; and to new initiatives in citizenship and creativity

Design and Innovation is a twin words which are most discussed when it comes to creativity in highly competitive markets. Nevertheless, the specific contribution of design and designers in the context of product innovation is insufficiently understood and explored. Mostly, innovation is meant to be the achievement of science and technology, while design as the last element in this chain has the task to introduce the scientific and technological innovation into the life-world of the user. The list of needs include hidden needs, needs that customers may not be aware of or problems they simply accept without question, as well as explicit needs, or needs that will most likely be reported by potential purchasers. Researchers develop the necessary information on which to base the performance, size, weight, service life, and other specifications of the product. Customer needs and product specifications are organized into a hierarchical list with a comparative rating value given to each need and specification. Keywords: Design, Innovation, Technology, Creative design, Product innovation, Customer.

La década pasada es, según algunos académicos, caracterizada por una onda hacia una nueva revolución industrial [1]. Principalmente gracias al hecho que la tecnología ha salido del dominio de la industria para quedar en las manos de la gente común. Los materiales están poco a poco comenzando a presentar el mismo tipo de comportamiento, dado que hoy en día mas y mas personas están experimentando con la creación de materiales de manera disruptiva. Este artículo presenta el concepto de Activismo Material como mecanismo para entender el fenómeno en crecimiento que esta permitiendo a los materiales democratizarse a través de una aproximación de base. ; The past decade it is considered by many scholars as the new industrial revolution wave [1], mainly by the fact that technology has jumped out of the industry into the hands of the people. Materials are also starting to perform the same behavior as more and more people are starting to deal with the creation of materials in a disruptive way. In this paper we present the concept of Material Activism as a way to understand the growing phenomena that is allowing materials to democratize through a bottom up approach. ; A década passada é, segundo alguns acadêmicos, caraterizada por uma onda até uma nova revolução industrial, devido ao fato que a tecnologia saiu do domínio da indústria para ficar nas mãos das pessoas comuns. Os materiais estão pouco a pouco começando a apresentar o mesmo tipo de comportamento, já que hoje mais e mais pessoas estão experimentando com a criação de materiais de modo disruptivo. Este artigo apresenta o conceito de Ativismo Material como mecanismo para entender o fenômeno em crescimento que está permitindo aos materiais democratizar-se através de uma aproximação de base.

La década pasada es, según algunos académicos, caracterizada por una onda hacia una nueva revolución industrial [1]. Principalmente gracias al hecho que la tecnología ha salido del dominio de la industria para quedar en las manos de la gente común. Los materiales están poco a poco comenzando a presentar el mismo tipo de comportamiento, dado que hoy en día mas y mas personas están experimentando con la creación de materiales de manera disruptiva. Este artículo presenta el concepto de Activismo Material como mecanismo para entender el fenómeno en crecimiento que esta permitiendo a los materiales democratizarse a través de una aproximación de base.