Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Simplifying Solution Space

Enabling Non-Expert Users to Innovate and Design with Toolkits

  • Book
  • © 2017

Overview

Authors:
  1. Hari Suman Naik

    1. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , Nürnberg, Germany

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Designing toolkit solution space for user innovation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction: Solution Space for User Innovation and Design

    • Hari Suman Naik
    Pages 1-24

  3. Using Solution Space: Exploring Users Simplifying Solution Space

    • Hari Suman Naik
    Pages 27-76

  4. Structuring Solution Space: Exploring Toolkits Simplifying Solution Space

    • Hari Suman Naik
    Pages 79-115

  5. Generating Solution Space: Designing a Toolkit to Generate and Recommend Solutions

    • Hari Suman Naik
    Pages 117-157

  6. Discussion: Simplifying Solution Space

    • Hari Suman Naik
    Pages 159-183

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 185-207
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Hari Suman Naik takes the perspective of modular systems and investigates how to enable non-expert users to innovate and design, by simplifying toolkit solution space. New production technologies like digital fabrication and modular electronics along with appropriate toolkits can offer users a significant design flexibility to innovate solutions that meet their heterogeneous and sticky needs. The author contributes towards understanding and designing toolkit solution space, first using qualitative studies to explore mechanisms for simplifying the use and structure of toolkit solution space, and then using a design study of an innovative toolkit. The findings are relevant to innovation and product managers eager to incorporate user ideas with toolkits.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , Nürnberg, Germany

    Hari Suman Naik

About the author

Dr. Hari Suman Naik is a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg working with Prof. Dr. Kathrin M. Möslein, Chair of Information Systems I - Innovation & Value Creation.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation