Design Tips

Avoid these product design mistakes for a lot of troubles: some product features or technologies are tempting at first, but may, with or without additional factors or errors, be your next ticking time bomb or your disaster waiting to...

No Designer or Product Manager will forget the end customer using the product for its primary function. But providing added value to all actors in the product chain + in the product life-cycle is a great way to promote...

Do not close any Design Phase without this. This extensive design review checklist is to be used at the end of the design phase of any product, to avoid potentially basic or stupid mistakes that may later be very...

While designers and marketers may want their new product to be as versatile as possible -increase applications and therefore market-, there are cases where this does not add value to the end-user, thus design against stealing should be considered. Design...

Designers and engineers can find a wealth of information on Wikipedia to help with their product design and innovation efforts. Complementary to innovation.world, these 8 Wikipedia articles provide comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date information on a wide range of skills...

Versatility in Product Design is risky: by trying to combine too many features, the risk is to obtain either a complicated product, fragile, costly or reaching none of the intended users or market. jack of all trades, master of none...

An extensive review of tips and examples to use when designing a new product with magnets and make use of all their properties without their drawbacks. Other alternatives to magnets will also be listed. Magnet Design Benefits example of a speed...

Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles movie from 1930 is a brilliant way to get a fresh (!) reminder to your school time to get ideas to solve in an efficient way modern motion transmission or transformation. Ready to be used as...

Product designers and marketers can use color coding for 3 reasons: to convey a message, to convey a feeling, or to easily distinguish between elements. As such this design trick should be used as frequently as possible in any...

A great video from Aaron Draplin & LinkedIn Learning about logo design and the necessary ideas and concepts research. Many tips given are also applicable to any creative process and Product Design and ideation. The Design Logo Expert Video Aaron is...

No plastics design theory, just plenty of illustrated examples of the most common plastic design features achievable with injection molding. Where designed for plastic injection becomes real and is the cheapest mass-production technology available. This collection is intended to grow...

So your product is out, top-notch, and well-established so is the brand? And now what? Now comes the time for Product Evolutions to stay ahead on top of the wave. Diversity & variants are one of the next ways...