The traditional product design process revolves around adding features by placing integrated circuits and discrete components on the printed circuit board (PCB). We call the traditional process ...

The pace of product design, development, and manufacturing is accelerating like never before, and consumers are demanding more from their products. Many products, like coffee makers and even doorbells ...

Product design is in a moment of profound change and redefinition as technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and spatial computing dramatically affect computing experiences. AI, especially, may ...

This demand is accompanied by the political imperative to control medical expenditures, which means that manufacturers need a medical device design process that operates at an unprecedented efficiency ...

There’s no one right way to go about product design. Many methodologies exist, and many of them are good ones. But there are a few elements of product design that are too often neglected in the ...

Designing a product is truly a labor of love that only those who get to breathe the rarified air of being designers can fully appreciate! One has to see a vision in their mind, commit it to some sort ...

Amid the churn of the pandemic and change on multiple fronts, consumer goods manufacturers now face historic pressures to contain costs, navigate ongoing uncertainty in both supply and demand, and ...

Designing more sustainable products requires both changes in how designers approach their work and quick access to information that can justify alternative designs and materials. Our last editorial ...

Bodies of knowledge ebb and flow over time. When you step back and look at them, the maturation of a specific discipline or technology is counted in decades. Last month (MD Apr ’19), this column ...