Top Level Vision & Road-mapping
- Design Philosophy
- Design Strategy
- Design Thinking
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Academic Research
The Market
- Voice of Customer (VoC) (Corporate pitch) Right-wing
- Participatory Design / Co-Design (Social pitch) Left-wing
- In-Focus Groups & facilitation
- Out-of-Focus Groups & facilitation
- Brainstorming & facilitation
- User surveys
- Experience Design
- IP & Technology Analysis
Front-end Conceptual Design
- Ideation
- Form Finding / Generative Design
- Concept Art
- Functional Analysis / Systems Design / Block Diagrams
- Engineering Calculations
- Morphological Charts
- Story-boarding
- Prototyping
- Marketing, Brand Identity & Graphic Design
- Animation & Video Editing
Middle-ground Decision Making
- Decision Map / Tree
- Objectives Tree
- Human Factors & Ergonomics
- Quality Function Deployment
- Weighted Evaluation Matrix
- Performance Requirements & Specifications
Back-end Detailed Design
- Design for Manufacturing (DfM)
- Design for Molding, Casting, Additive Layering (3D Printing), Forming, Joining, Welding, Cutting, Machining & Finishing
- Design with Polymers, Metals, Composites, Glass, Ceramics & Biomass
- Value Engineering
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA) & Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation
- Cost of Goods (CoGs) & Bill of Materials (BoM) analysis
- Supplier Communications
- Procurement of Original Equipment Manufactured (OEM) items
- Engineering Drawings
- Geometrical Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)
- IP Drawings & Diagrams
Software & Data
Depending on the nature and needs of your project we can use one or many of these special software applications: