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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 ...

Competing in a free market populated with giant multinational companies requires the development of new products to maintain a share of the market. As a result, rapid, effective product design and ...

Manufacturing and product development touch everyone — from the freelancer in Brooklyn writing in a cafe to the farmer in the sub-Saharan desert working to irrigate fields. At any given moment, we are ...

The pace of product design, development, and manufacturing is accelerating like never before, and consumers are demanding more from their products. Many products, like coffee makers and even doorbells ...

A product development strategy provides a framework for creating new products or improving the performance, cost or quality of existing products. The strategy helps a company achieve business goals, ...

Back in 2022, I wrote about the triple threat of additive, agility and automation—three forces that were already reshaping manufacturing and product development. Fast forward to 2025, and these trends ...

Outsourcing your product development requires various considerations, including requirement analysis, selecting the suitable cooperation model, hiring an agency or freelancer and avoiding a few ...

The term Secure Product Development Framework (SPDF) was introduced by FDA in the draft guidance "Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of Premarket Submissions" ...

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 ...