Product Design – Why Cado Looks As Good As It does

by Vimal Bhana November 20, 2012

Product design can mean many different things to different people, depending on your circumstance and your perspective. In this article we have looked at it from both sides, creating a product that will help others create their products. You may already know we are creating a Computer Aided Design (CAD) application for the iPad called [...]

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Six Steps for a Successful OPD Engagement

by Vivek Maladkar November 1, 2012

The importance of Outsourcing Product Design (OPD) and the inherent challenges in entering an emerging market continue to be discussed in multiple forums. Given the overwhelming benefits of OPD, engineering managers and business owners have come to firmly believe that outsourcing is the strategy for addressing some key business challenges. However, not many organizations have [...]

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Newly Designed Donor Chair Aids Blood Collection

by Ben Wood October 27, 2012

If you’ve given blood or were recently approached to donate blood ahead of the Olympic games in the summer then you may well have found yourself laying on one of the newly piloted prototype blood donor chairs designed and built by Renfrew Group International that are currently undergoing national trials in National Health Service practises [...]

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Breaking the Ordinary Designer Cycle

by Huu Huynh October 14, 2012
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Ordinary designers are all around us. Many have a certain flair in their work. But it is hard and challenging for them to break the mould of being ordinary. To achieve top notch quality, it is black magic. Some are capable, others find it beyond them. High craftsmanship is not easy to achieve. Ordinary designers [...]

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Top 5 Criteria to Select your Outsourcing Product Design (OPD) Partner

by Vivek Maladkar October 9, 2012
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To enter an emerging market like India, a company’s success depends directly on the development of unique and customized products for the end-customer. This holds true whether an existing product is redesigned or a new product is evolved specifically for this market. Both situations demand thorough knowledge on various parameters pertaining to the target market. [...]

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Top 3 Free Online Educational Resources for Product Design Students

by Angelita Williams September 16, 2012
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There are a plethora of high-quality online courses and other educational resources popping up on the internet these days. Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, and many other big name schools now provide some of their best undergraduate and graduate courses to online students, for free. Some of the top-notch educational content on the web includes courses, [...]

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Want to get hired as a designer? Why showing your best work isn’t enough.

by Jelmer Riemersma September 4, 2012

  As a product designer you speak to the world through the products you design. They show your vision and communicate the story you want to tell. All these stories (products) combined tell the bigger story and give a more complete impression of who you are and what you do best. And the medium that [...]

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5 Things to Look for in a Product Design Degree

by Stephanie Brooks September 1, 2012

When it comes time to look for a design school that meets your needs, there will be plenty of things to look for in potential programs.  Getting a degree that focuses on product design is a niche that requires some extra research to make sure you will be getting an education that adequately prepares students [...]

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The Designer Express

by Santiago Fuentes August 27, 2012

As soon as I touchdown in Barcelona, it wasn’t very clear fro me what the word crisis meant for designers. Very soon I realized it’s not a foreign word, in fact, this a profession currently held by an industry that runs on development, investigation and social culture, and all funded by a healthy economy.  The [...]

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A New Wave of Technology

by Alex Lombardi August 20, 2012

Athletes are looking for every competitive advantage they can use to help distinguish themselves from their competition and are constantly pushing the limits of their body. Technology is now doing the same. Australia’s 2012 Olympic Kayak team employed Creaform’s REVscan to create custom kayak parts (usually made of foam and wood for the seat of [...]

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Outsourcing Product Design for India Entry – A Strategic Approach

by Vivek Maladkar August 13, 2012

It was a Friday evening when Roger Little, an engineering division’s head for a mid-sized enterprise, was about to leave for the day.  It had been a particularly hectic week and Roger was looking forward to the welcome weekend break to be with his family.  Just then, he caught sight of the sales manager Carl [...]

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