Prototype Development

While a final product may appear to stand on its own, it’s actually buoyed by tiers of development. These include rounds of prototyping and testing.

Farewell, foam core mockups?

You've grasped the basic anatomy of an IoT device, identified how you’ll connect with and begin to communicate with the cloud, and selected a cloud service provider. It’s time to get prototyping.

When you’re designing a connected device, there’s a lot of testing you can do before you get to the production-grade prototype. Here are a few examples of different fidelity levels of prototypes you can use to test early on in your IoT product development.

In art, an unfinished work remains unfinished. In design, an unfinished work opens up possibilities for the user.

Designers and engineers share responsibility for design for manufacturing (DFM), or designing products for optimized manufacturing ease and cost.

Download the hood design and supporting documentation The Badger Shield team has not rested since Lennon Rodgers, Director of the Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, requested help to make face shields for the UW Health System in mid-March. You can read about our effort here.

The goal: To outfit every health care worker with PAPRs – an amazing piece of equipment used to filter air and inflate a bubble around the wearer’s head to reject any contaminants.

Advanced Design is a nonprofit design organization founded in 2016. This group began as a small design sketching workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago for a handful of students who wanted to further develop their foundational skill set. These students, eager to bring the contagious energy of their workshops to the larger design community, wanted more.

From a '90s novelty to an exciting design tool, virtual reality offers client-facing opportunities for design immersion.

Our Model Shop creates a wide variety of models for concept validation and user testing. Learn more about the types of models we create.

When you have to make something where failure isn’t an option, you better make sure that it will work.

Last weekend, we gathered as a multidisciplinary team and headed to Chicago to attend the second annual Service Experience Jam.

Smart startups spend on prototypes. Different levels offer different benefits along the process journey — here are six of the most important to make.