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Best 10 Wikipedia Articles for Product 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...

Jack Of All Trades: Versatility in Product Design ?

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...

10 Tips to Design with Magnets

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...

90 Mechanical Principles to Get Savvy Design Solutions

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...

3 Great Benefits of Color Coding in Product Design

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...

Great 10 Logo Design Tips You Will Use

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...

Plastics Design Tricks Collection

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...

Next Product Evolution – 5 Best Tips How To

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...

20 Best Tips to Design for Cleanability

In some industries, Design for Cleanability is just a must (food, medical), in all others, you may just want your product to be and maintain clean during its usage. This article reviews traditional and innovative design tips and recommendations.   To...

Protective peeling film layer

These peeling films are supposed to be easily .... peelable! But read-on, to avoid annoying your customer, or even worse, have your product with that horrible film torn in pieces or left forever like that on the market.     These layers, usually...

Less Is More. Why You Want To Design Simple

"Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple." Sir Richard Branson So let's Design Simple and here is why and how! See the lithography above, from Pablo Picasso's sketch of one of his...

Small design facts on Electric Motors

Small tips are useful when considering small electrical motors when designing a new product. for the same power, the best efficiency of the motor is obtained at high velocities Low speed & high torque is obtained via a higher magnetic field,...
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Recycling Lesson: If It Can’t Be Reduced Song, by Pete Seeger

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Air Separation Unit

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Pressure Gauges Manufacturing

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