Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
Digital interaction design, Tokyo
• A’ Design Award (Italian Design Award) *Digital interaction design
• ADC Japan (Art Directors Club) Annual Award *Digital interaction design
Creative Director: Midori Yamazaki
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Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
COVID-19 has brought us fear and has fundamentally destroyed the preconceptions of the world. But on the positive side, it has changed our perspective and left us with seeds of ideas for a better life in the future, in many areas. What can we do to make sure that we don’t forget the ideas we’ve had as the immediate problems come to an end?
“Innovation Seed List” is a project based on the question. It is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between designers, scientists, and others to develop and list concepts and ideas before they are forgotten as the problem is solved. The aim of the project was not only to solve problems directly but also to serve as a thought-starter to trigger future innovations and to be used for future research.
The process based on design thinking methodology involved online interviews and workshops with laboratories at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo, in the coronavirus crisis. A digital interactive platform was created and categorized urgent and immediate problems as with corona, and ideas that could be applied in the future as post corona. For example, the problem that people all over the world are experiencing at the moment, of having to live in a confined space due to the threat of life in the outside world, can be used as a post corona idea in the space-related field, with your imagination.
The digital interactive platform created by this cross-disciplinary experiment also implements two types of UX design. The first is the “Mind Map”, a logical search, which allows users to logically find ideas by concept from the academic disciplines linked to the various laboratories of the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo. Another is the “Illustration Overview”, where you can search using visual language, and even if you don’t have a lot of expertise in science and technology, you can find ideas that interest you through illustrations and connect to the research of each laboratory at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. The UX design is designed so that people from all walks of life can search at different levels of understanding of science and technology, and make use of the information for future research.
As a digital interactive platform, two types of UX design were implemented to make it easier to search by level of understanding of science and technology.
Mind Map ( logical search )
You can logically search for ideas by concept from the academic fields associated with each laboratory in the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. https://innovation-dev.herokuapp.com/index-en.html
Illustration Overview ( search using visuals )
You can search for ideas of interest from the visual language and connect them to research in the various laboratories of the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo. https://innovation-dev.herokuapp.com/cards.html