NSF supports research on product design, innovation and learning

This article talks about the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its interest in researching how building existing products helps foster more creativity and innovation. Obviously, this is about a research project but it also presents an interesting point: deeply studying the design of existing products can be immensely instructive and a vital step in the design research process.

"Holding a product and physically being able to see how it is constructed is beneficial to many students during the learning [RESEARCH] process.”