Synergizing Both Universal Design Principles and Su-Field Analysis to an Innovative Product Design Process

To promote developing more usable and accessed, daily-used products that could meet the rigorous requirements from diverse consumers at the present time, this research proposed an innovative product design process by synergizing both universal design (UD) principles and TRIZ tools. This newly developed process started with stating the design problems via a UD evaluation, followed by PDMT analysis to develop the preliminary design directions. The directions were then analyzed by using Su-Field models in order to locate the potential resolutions from TRIZ’s 76 Standard Solutions. Finally, a case study was conducted to demonstrate how this innovative design process works. Study result shows that this approach can help identify the core of the problem and locate the improved product concepts effectively, resulting in generating more creative and usable product design.