Although there are thousands of apps available to the public, most, if not all of them, focus on attracting younger…
October 14, 2019
Many products in recent years have benefited from see through plastic parts to improve interaction, show off internals, display lighting…
October 14, 2019
Interview with the Founder of StudioRed: A 37 year old Brand and Product Development Firm.
Making parts that fit together is really one of the key deliverables for a full service product development consultancy. Sure…
October 14, 2019
t was the mid-90s and the construction market was booming. This was a game changer for the surveying industry. Two…
October 14, 2019
Consumer Product Design is the unique focus on consumer products as differentiated from commercial, Medical or Industrial Products.
October 14, 2019
Recently I had the good fortune of helping at a science completion for students, and the ideas and cleverness from…
Design for production is a critical component of an Industrial Designers and Mechanical Engineers job. They should create a product…
Challenges in new product development are one reason to consider if the investment to convert your idea into a sellable…
Everyone loves compact products. Smaller is better. It almost seems the thinking is that this communicates a higher degree of…
October 14, 2019
When it comes to product design, mechanical engineers will be called upon to maintain the cool look of a new…
October 14, 2019
Product design prototyping is an important step in the development of any product. There are lots of stories and studies…
Industrial Product Design and Development is a turnkey discipline to help execute your new idea into a working, sellable product…
Medical Product Design sounds like it’s a unique field requiring specialist to successfully navigate the product challenges. However, this is…
Sheet metal assemblies are frequently seen when producing large scale products as it’s a very cost effective way to create…
October 14, 2019
Designing a manufacturable product is no cake walk, but even the best designed product can fail to make it to…
October 14, 2019
Most products are developed in parallel these days with different disciplines coordinating but also progressing toward production at the same…
Let’s say there is a usability issue in your product. The user has difficulty at first, but eventually they learn…
Prototyping is a crucial step in any development process, it’s important to validate your design outside of a CAD environment…
October 14, 2019
So next time you are in a design review and someone proposes magnets as the magic solution to all your…
October 14, 2019
A popular adage in entrepreneurial circles is that it’s good to “fail fast”, meaning that if you have an idea…
October 14, 2019
The impact of virtual design is indisputable but what of the claims in recent years where whole products could be…
October 14, 2019
You may have a great idea with a polished advertisement but, for some reason, millennials don’t seem to click with…
October 14, 2019
Often the reason for high tooling cost is a design that doesn’t take advantage of the injection molding process while…
October 14, 2019
When designing connected hardware products, there are many ways that a project can go sideways and end up far over…
October 14, 2019
There’s no sure fire way to have a product come together exactly as you designed, on schedule, and within budget,…
October 14, 2019
Millennials are a new type of consumer yet IoT products designed for millennials don’t always reflect this. In the past,…
Allen Wilson has more than a decade’s experience working as an industrial designer/inventor and holds nearly a dozen co-inventor patents.…
We caught up with Soyun Kim to talk about her design process and to get her insights and advice on…
As designers we’re always looking for inspiration… or rather, we see inspiration wherever we look. An interesting avenue of inspiration…
October 14, 2019
Silicon Valley growth has gained significantly in the development of software, web and other digital mediums. What has happened to…
To the general public, product design may seem easy. After all, it’s just coming up with ideas and drawing some…
Product development is difficult. The invention of a new product, new functionality, new customer interaction and experience is challenging enough…
October 11, 2019