Innovation.word’s Concept Explorer™ offers a dynamic and visual method for navigating concepts and linguistic connections: it renders conceptual relationships as an interactive radial graph. Starting with a central term, the tool dynamically fetches and displays related concepts based on various semantic links—such as synonyms, hierarchical parent/child terms (hypernyms/hyponyms), constituent parts, or antonyms. Users can then select any displayed concept, making it the next center of exploration, thereby progressively and intuitively charting a path through an expansive network of ideas.
This visual and interactive journey allows for a more organic and in-depth understanding of how terms and ideas are fundamentally interconnected.
For product design and innovation, the Concept Explorer™ helps teams brainstorm by exploring concepts related to a core problem, user need, or existing technology, potentially uncovering alternative solutions, or overlooked user contexts. Marketers can use it for product naming by delving into the semantic space around desired attributes, finding evocative terms or identifying related SEO keywords or thematic clusters.
Any creative activity requiring divergent thinking the tool provides a structured yet flexible way to expand understanding and discover fresh perspectives.
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Legend:
- hyponym: a concept that is more specific than a given concept
- hypernym: a concept that is more general than a given concept
- similar: (of words) expressing closely related meanings
- holo member: concept B is a member of concept A
- mero member: concept A is a member of concept B
- holo part: concept B is the whole where concept A is a part
- mero part: concept A is made of concept B.
- instance hyponym: an occurrence of something
- instance hypernym: the type of an instance
- domain topic: a concept which is the scientific category pointer of a given concept.
- has domain: a concept which is a term of a given Topic, Region or Usage concept
- also: a word having a loose semantic relation to another word
- exemplifies: a concept which is the example of a given concept
- is exemplified by: a concept which is the type of a given concept
- domain region: a concept which is a geographical / cultural domain pointer of a given concept
- has domain region: a concept which is the term in the geographical / cultural domain of a given concept
- attribute: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
- mero substance: concept A is made of concept B.
- holo substance: concept B is a substance of concept A
The free members-only version provides all filters listed in the legend and direct search feature:
Important notes
- This original Concept Explorer™ tool is based on the 160.000+ keywords distributed by the Open English Wordnet project, under CC-BY 4.0, which itself is derived from Wordnet®, released under license by the Princeton University “About WordNet.” WordNet. Princeton University 2010, and is a registered trademark.
- By using this tool (ie clicking on it or entering your own keyword) you guaranty that you are over 18+, and that you were warned and did agree to eventually view adult vocabulary and concepts, that may be connected to your selections.
could potentially it disrupt traditional education on product design methods?
Wondering if this new Concept Explorer™ could be integrated with other tech platforms for better innovation synchronization?
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