In the fast-paced digital landscape, product design is not merely about aesthetics; it plays a crucial role in determining the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the development process. Investing ...

The environmental products of design major creates design leaders prepared to take on challenges facing humanity and our environment(s) through the rigorous development of design solutions. Students ...

To decrease the possibility of failure, medical device companies must employ critical thinking, risk process point analysis, and control measures. Walt Murray In the medical device industry, the life ...

Product development, no matter the industry, is both an art and a science. Bringing a concept to life requires intensive research, ingenuity, risk-taking, iteration, testing, and a little magic. More ...

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Toronto-based NeuronicWorks Inc. is a design engineering and manufacturing company that casts a Design for Excellence (DfX) lens over product development. DfX is a set of best practices intended to ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Kevin Bailey Artificial ...

Product development (“PD”) is a core competency for any product-oriented company, whether a Fortune 100 firm, a small engineering business, or a technology-based startup. Commercializing innovative ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...