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The International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is an award

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program previously co-sponsored by BusinessWeek
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magazine

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, and in 2010 Fast Company
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magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America

Industrial Designers Society of America

Industrial Designers Society of America is an organization of professional industrial designers primarily in the United States. Recently IDSA has started chapters in Canada and in China...

(IDSA). According to the IDSA, IDEA "is dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence

Excellence

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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 International Council of Societies of Industrial Design

International Council of Societies of Industrial Design

International Council of Societies of Industrial Design was founded in 1957 from a group of international organizations focused on industrial design. Today Icsid is a worldwide society that promotes better design around the world...

(ICSID) / IDSA CONNECTING '07 World Design Congress in San Francisco, CA

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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. The judging criteria are the following:

Innovation
Innovation
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: (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
Corporate social responsibility
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: 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
Design research investigates the process of designing in all its many fields. It is thus related to Design methods in general or for particular disciplines. A primary interpretation of design research is that it is concerned with undertaking research into the design process. Secondary...

: (usability, emotional factors, unmet needs) testing rigor and reliability)
Design Strategy Category (internal factors and methods, strategic value and implementation)

For a list of winners, links to their sites and archives of past years, please see the IDSA site for their galleries listed below.

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