The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2014 will be open for entries from December 2, 2013. Organized by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), IDEA recognizes design excellence in products, sustainability, interaction design, packaging, strategy, research and concepts.
Products must have been placed in distribution between February 2012 and February 2014. This means the product must be available for sale in its final form to its intended end users through normal sales channels during that period, except in the case of the Social Impact Design category where products are often given as part of an aid effort or donation program.
A jury of independent design experts will use the following criteria in selecting winning designs:
• Innovation: design, experience, manufacturing
• Benefit to the 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
• Benefit to the client: profitability, increased sales, brand reputation, employee morale
• Visual appeal and appropriate aesthetics
• Design research category insights: usability, emotional factors, unmet needs, testing rigor and reliability
• Design strategy category: internal factors and methods, strategic value and implementation
Deadline: February 24, 2014
More information: http://www.idsa.org/idea-2014-entry-rules-criteria-instructions
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