Abstract. Research related design relies on the technology of scientific and technological creation process with its morphological and transformative methods. Complete with marketing research elements it allows getting an innovative product with high technological characteristic as the end product. The paper gives an overview of the functionally oriented approach in research-related design, which combines the properties mentioned above with an emphasis on the category of computing equipment (called smart systems), which is being intensively developed.

Keywords: research related design, technology of scientific and technological creation process, marketing research, transdisciplinarity, ontological methods, artificial intelligence, smart systems.