The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is an

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program previously co-sponsored by ''

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'' magazine and the

Industrial Designers Society of America The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is a membership-based not-for-profit organization that promotes the practice and education of industrial design. The organization was formally established in 1965 by the collaborative merger of t ...

(IDSA). According to the IDSA, IDEA "is dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and economy". Every year, designers and corporations submit entries into the competition in many categories. The program was established in 1980. The IDEA winners are honored at annual ceremonies (such as the

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(ICSID) / IDSA CONNECTING '07 World Design Congress in

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, CA) and awarded with a statue made by New York firm,

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. The name was changed from Industrial Design Excellence Awards to International Design Excellence Awards in 2007. The judges are chosen from different design firms and corporations throughout the world using the following criteria:Quoted from ISDA
IDEA 2014 Entry Rules, Criteria & Instructions
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Innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or service (economics), services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a n ...
: (design, experience, manufacturing) *Benefit to User: (performance, comfort, safety, ease of use, usability, user interface, ergonomics, universal function and access, quality of life, affordability) * Responsibility: Benefit to society, environment, culture and economy, improved accessibility to a greater percentage of the population, improves education, meets basic needs of low income populations, reduces disease, improves competitiveness, raises wealth, improves the quality of life, supports cultural diversity, improves energy efficiency, durability, addresses product lifecycle effects on the environment, uses low impact materials and processes throughout lifecycle, designed for repair/reuse/recyclability, addresses issues of toxicity, reduced material usage and waste reduction *Benefit to the client (profitability, increased sales, brand reputation, employee morale) *Visual appeal and appropriate aesthetics *
Design Research Design research was originally constituted as primarily concerned with ways of supporting and improving the process of design, developing from work in design methods. The concept has been expanded to include research embedded within the process of ...
: (usability, emotional factors, unmet needs) testing rigor and reliability) *Design Strategy Category (internal factors and methods, strategic value and implementation)

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IDEA Galleries
on the official website of the

Industrial design awards

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