Design Thinking for Food Well-Being: The Art of Designing Innovative Food Experiences

How can we design innovative food experiences that enhance food pleasure and consumer well-being? Through a wide variety of empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions, which examine the art of designing innovative food experiences, this edited book explores the relationship between design thinking, food experience, and food well-being.

While many aspects of food innovation are focused on products’ features, in this book, design thinking follows an experiential perspective to create a new food innovation design logic that integrates two aspects: consumer food well-being and the experiential pleasure of food. It integrates a holistic perspective to understand how designing innovative food experiences, instead of food products, can promote healthy and pleasurable eating behaviors among consumers and help them achieve their food well-being. Invaluable for scholars, food industry professionals, design thinkers, students, and amateurs alike, this book will define the field of food innovation for years to come.

Wided BATAT is a marketing professor and an internationally renowned expert and speaker on experiential and digital marketing specialized in the fields of food, luxury, well-being, design, retail, youth cultures, generation Z&Y, millennials and postmillennials, and tourism. She has published dozens of books in English and French, and articles in top‐tier academic journals that have received several awards. Professor Batat introduced an innovative and disruptive approach to the global and digital customer experience by providing a strategic framework of the customer experience offline and online and the new experiential marketing mix (7Es). Entrepreneur, Professor Batat is also a bilingual (French and English) international professional trainer and the founder of B&C Consulting Group, an innovative market research and consumer insights company specialized in global and digital customer experience design, buying behavior, and consumer trends.