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Innovation By Design

Lessons from Post Box Design & Development

  • Teaches the design methodology by step by step examples
  • Showcases a single product from idea to final product, first one of its kind
  • Describes the innovation processes both for academic and industry
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. The Cause

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Trigger

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 3-6
    3. The Motivation

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 7-10
  3. The Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. The Scenario

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 13-20
  4. The Comprehension

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. The Insight

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 23-29
  5. The Check

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. The Product Brief

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 33-35
  6. The Conception

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
    2. The Idea

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 39-46
    3. The Creation

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 47-51
  7. The Crafting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. The Final Design

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 55-59
    3. The Prototyping

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 61-63
    4. The Product

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 65-71
    5. The Production

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 73-80
  8. The Connection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
    2. The Launch

      • Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi
      Pages 83-86

About this book

The book provides an in-depth knowledge on how a product is designed and developed by Product Designers. This has been achieved through a case study of one product – the Post Box. This product was chosen for the study primarily due to its simple and non-technical nature as that would make it easy for the readers to comprehend the design process. At the same time the Post Box posed all the challenges a designer would face while creating a new product.

Through a step by step process the book gradually takes the reader through the design and development journey – right from understanding the product, identifying the user need through market research, comprehending client’s brief, generating product ideas and concepts to development of prototype, manufacturing and final performance of the product. Interestingly, the book also includes how the product had to be modified after its initial launch as a large section of the public failed to identify it as a Post Box!

To make thebook more stimulating, innovative case studies with interesting facts, figures and pictures on related issues like origin and evolution of Post Boxes in India and abroad are included. They are presented separately in boxes and columns without interrupting the flow of the core subject matter. The narrative and the language is simple and lucid and possibly balanced with a vivid formatting and layout that is easy on the eye.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

    Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy

  • Mumbai, India

    Janaki Krishnamoorthi

About the authors

Dr. B. K. Chakravarthy is a Professor in Product Innovation at the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay. He has facilitated innovation initiatives in diverse contexts across several reputed organisations and has brought in the industry perspective to classrooms. To promote innovation in a sustained manner in both the academic and industry circles he established the Shenoy Innovation Studio at IDC with a mandate to humanise technology.

Ms. Janaki Krishnamoorthi is a Freelance Journalist based in Mumbai. She has been writing for over three decades on various topics including product design in several leading newspapers and magazines like the Times of India, Indian Express, Construction World and Infrastructure Today.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation By Design

  • Book Subtitle: Lessons from Post Box Design & Development

  • Authors: Battula Kalyana Chakravarthy, Janaki Krishnamoorthi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0901-0

  • Publisher: Springer New Delhi

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer India 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-0900-3Published: 08 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-0901-0Published: 12 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 101

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 110 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Design, Industrial Design, Innovation/Technology Management

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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