Insights
Advice for product innovation, design, and development
Four Ways to Work More Collaboratively with Interaction Designers
Designing appliances increasingly involves and interaction design component. How do you integrate this skill into your development process effectively?
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Engineering in the Fun
Engineers constantly balance two roles: the engineer responsible for understanding and mitigating risk, and the product developer considering the ideal customer experience and wanting to delight.
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From Arduino To Production: “Look, Mom! I Got It Working!”
Explore some of the issues that need to be dealt with and acknowledged before a quick-turn electronic prototype can be put into high-volume production.
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The Why, How, and When of Co-Creation During the Product Development Process
Co-creation means inviting users into your creative process. Users, instead of being subjects of study, gain agency and become active participants in the design process.
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The Foreign Language of Sewing
Sewing has its own language and rhythm that has surprising uses for prototyping.
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Degrees of Sealing: Designing Rugged, Waterproof Enclosures for Electronic Devices
Electronic devices today are expected to go where they’ve never gone before. Demand is growing for waterproof, rugged consumer and commercial electronic devices.
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Our SF design office is moving! What a long, strange trip it’s been
Moving 10 people and a 3,000-pound mill in San Francisco is quite the project. But the end result is worth it all.
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We are an open book
In the spirit of open source innovation, we are sharing our Tolerance Analysis spreadsheet for mechanical engineers.
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Confessions of a (former) tribal warrior
I have a confession to make. My co-worker Stefanie used to drive me nuts.
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I say “Dome of Awesome” and you say…
What's the dome of awesome? It’s that place where your expectations have been met (nay, exceeded!) and you are having a great experience throughout.
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The Shift to Physical-Digital Design Teams: Are You Ready?
The world is changing ... are your design teams changing with the physical/digital times?
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What does equity design mean?
Our world is in flux. We are all aware of this. As designers, it’s helpful to step back and consider our role in shaping our rapidly emerging future.
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Making makerspaces that work
Designing a makerspace to fit the needs of staff and students at Lincoln Elementary School took some old-fashioned ingenuity.
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Design of the dead
As a design team, we are constantly in search of ways to stay involved with the design community and shine light on upcoming talent
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Designing Systems Instead of Assigning Blame
In the immediate aftermath of any newsworthy accident, we often hear the words "human error" or "user error".
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Building the perfect team with psychological safety
Psychological safety can be the difference between innovative and just OK. Here are three easy ways to build psychological safety at your organization.
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Sensors for the Win! How Auto Industry Tech Drives Superior Olympic Athletes
The increasing sophistication, diversity, and affordability of sensor technology for autonomous cars has rippled into the sports world. Did we see the results in PyeongChang?
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What's in a whiteboard? More than you might think
We have a tradition of using the humble whiteboard as a jumping off point for discussions both internally and with the community.
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Life cycle considerations in the age of software-enabled products
As more products become software-enabled, our notions of expected performance and life cycle are changing.
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Ingenious Engineering: The Cutting Edge of Cutlery
Eating utensils require some sophisticated metal fabrication technology.
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What Does a Doctor Do at a Design Firm?
In medical product design, usability research was too often an afterthought. But you simply can’t expect something to look nice and assume patients and clinicians will know how to use it.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Promise and Challenges of Industrial IoT
IoT makes sense for industrial applications where there are endless opportunities to monitor and automate.
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QMS that works for us—and our clients
Quality management systems get a bad rap for slowing down progress and squelching innovation. We developed our own QMS approach to meld rigorous standards and the flexibility to innovate.
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From rockets to fidget spinning: 2017 year in review
Dave Franchino takes a whirlwind tour of a crazy year ... and that includes product design and tech.
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Using the PCA Method To Assess Use Errors in Medical Usability Testing
The PCA (perception, cognition, action) method recommended by the FDA helps researchers assess and understand why a use error has occurred.
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User-centered design is on the menu
Launching a restaurant is the ultimate personal exercise in user-centered design.
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Challenging the status quo of project management
One client. Three consulting partners and 100 team members. How do you hold such a massive project together. Here are three tips.
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Human-centered design ... but even more human.
Slowing down and practicing mindfulness in design can lead to better products.
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Health 2.0: Data — how to organize, access, and use it
At the Health 2.0 to focus was on how to effectively use the troves of health data we already possess for prevention and better outcomes.
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Our New Shop
Our new Model Shop in Madison helps our Prototype Specialists stay organized and protected from harmful dust and vapors.
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Vamsee Pamula, Founder & President, Baebies