Consumer product design services cover four things industrial design alone does not: hitting a landed cost near 20% to 25% of shelf price, designing packaging that survives shipping and sells from a peg or a shelf, meeting the safety standards your category triggers,...
The product development process runs through six gates: concept definition, feasibility, industrial design, engineering, validation, and production release. Each gate has an entry condition you must satisfy before work starts and an exit condition you must prove...
Most new consumer products struggle, and the trouble usually traces back to decisions made before a single unit got tooled. A consumer product design firm exists to make those early decisions well. It is not there to draw a pretty rendering and hand you a STEP file....
An inventor asked the Enhance Innovations team a fair question last month: should he spend money with a design firm, or buy a CAD course and figure it out himself? It is the right question to ask, and most of the people asking it have already underestimated how much...
