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Product Design
Product design requires creativity, experience and, if you are going to be building the product yourself, a substantial amount of technical know how.
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Product Design 101
To obtain oneness with Product Design, you must have all the other essential elements that encircle the main product as well. Mastering all the elements yourself would be inefficient and difficult at best, and that is exactly why communication skills are very important. Most commercial level product design will involve a team of people who specializes in different disciplines; the flow of information must be communicated clearly to avoid any complications that might cause irreconcilable delays or increased costs.
Usability is essential if you want good word-of-mouth and repeat customers. Even if you managed to get the product inside a household, a product that is not intuitive or comfortable to use will give it a bad reputation. Word-of-mouth is extremely powerful because a person would most likely trust their friends more than the words of a greasy salesman.
Materials, engineering and manufacturing. These are all very specialized fields where you want to get the best information and results on. Luckily at this day and age of the global workforce, highly educated specialists can be obtained at a fraction of a price than it did before. Googling design tutorials may be good for designing Marketing material, but when you want a world-class product, you need the right people.
A good product is important, but only if the consumer actually has a good impression of it. Planning the marketing aspects of product design involves in-depth research into the consumer’s taste and lifestyle. The branding of the product must also be innovative or insightful enough to provide a benefit that is desirable to the consumer. We certainly don’t need more useless junk to be used as landfill. Read the rest of this entry »
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An Introduction to Product Design for Inventors
Product Design is an essential part of developing your idea into a viable, marketable product. It is the process of considering the function of the product, its appearance and how it is going to be made. The inventor can do a certain amount of this themselves but a professional product designer may well need to be employed. Product design can also help to answer two important questions:
Is my idea technically possible?
A product designer can conduct an idea feasibility assessment to ensure that your product will work and is possible to manufacture. Some simple products may not require this stage but for others it is essential to ensure that time is not being wasted visualising or prototyping an idea that is not viable. For example, there is no point visualising a new travel kettle if there are no batteries that are powerful enough to boil a kettle in a compact size.