1.1 Product Evolution

Question 1

What is product evolution?

Answer 1

The concept of product evolution applies to products changing physically over time, but serving the same function.

Question 2

What is market pull?

Answer 2

• When a need emerges in society
• This prompts designers to search for a solution to this gap in the market

Question 3

What is technological push?

Answer 3

New developments in technology or improvements in knowledge inspire new solutions to existing problems.

Question 4

What is an example of Market Pull?

Answer 4

• Development of cameras
• Dustpan & brush developed into a vacuum

Question 5

What is an example of Technological Push?

Answer 5

Development of a phone

Question 6

What’s the process of Market pull?

Answer 6

• Consumers create the demand
• Products usually evolve gradually from one form to another
• The technology driving the product usually exists already
• Products created from a market demand are often re-styled versions of older products

Question 7

What’s the process of technological push?

Answer 7

• A new technology becomes available
• This technology offers new ways to solve problems, and creates opportunities to make entirely new products
• New products are made, which were not possible before the technological advancement