Product Development Examples
List by Adeline Swires
Product Design and Development is a project-based course that covers modern tools and methods for product design and development. The cornerstone is a project in which teams of management, engineering, and industrial design students conceive, design and prototype a physical product. Class sessions are conducted in workshop mode and employ cases and hands-on exercises to reinforce the key ideas. Topics include identifying customer needs, concept generation, product architecture, industrial design, and design-for-manufacturing.
- Visualizing Problems Helps Solution Creation
- Visualizing Others' POV/Perspectives Helps Creation
- Switching Between Tasks/Goals Helps Creativity
- Visualizing Future Self Helps Solution Creation
- Brief Walks Help Creativity
- Time Constraints Are Useful
- Spotting Opportunity in the Wild
- Discovery-Oriented Actions Help Creation (observe & interact range)
- What-to-Build Prototyping Guide
- Evaluation Axes, integrating constraints
- Idea Generation
- Experimentation
- Case Studies
- How to take ideas generated & tell which are likely to produce outcomes
- Explore problems users are trying to solve vs their product use. Once have thoroughly done so & looked for patterns, designers look to future & ask "what if?"...how to apply "what is?" & "what if?" questions
- This question brings together customer & business cases supporting new concepts. “Wow” zone occurs at intersection of 3: 1) somebody wants it, 2) can create & deliver it, & 3) doing so has ability to produce outcomes wanted. Then "what works?" & do small experiments to test assumptions. By end, know how to apply "what wows?" & "what works?"
- Case Studies
- Market Research
- Product Testing
- User Feedback
- Product Design
- Product Ideation
- Look at creating usable models and frameworks for gathering user feedback and testing solutions
- Two practical case studies which demonstrate how two Australian based companies are using design strategy to innovate and solve problems every day
Offered by The University of Sydney. Tools and techniques.
To prosper, firms must develop major product & service innovations. Research into innovation processes has made it possible to develop "breakthroughs" systematically. Several practical concept development methods, such as the "Lead User Method," where manufacturers learn from innovative customers. Case studies show the "art" required to implement a concept development method/methodology. Several practical idea generation development methods.
Often we think of products or experiences, or even larger systemic areas to design for, but are we considering the whole landscape?
On PPT slides/deck:
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Make prototypes as way to work out ideas in addition to expressing them, build to think strategy where using sketching to work out early ideas and share with others.
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Introduce students to the creative design process, based on the scientific method and peer review, by application of fundamental principles and learning to complete projects according to schedule and within budget. Design/build project focused on the need for a new consumer product identified. While students create, design, build, and test their product ideas, topics include formulating strategies, concepts and modules, and estimation, concept selection, machine elements, design for manufacturing, visual thinking, communication, and professional responsibilities.