Top Level Organistaion & Planning 

  • Design Philosophy
  • Vision / Roadmap
  • Design Strategy
  • Design Thinking
  • Research & Development (R&D)
  • Academic Research / Literature Reviews
  • Stakeholder deliberations / consulting 

Market Research

  • IP & Technology analysis
  • Competitor analysis / Benchmarking 
  • Voice of Customer (VoC) (Corporate pitch) Right-wing
  • Participatory Design / Co-Design (Social pitch) Left-wing
  • In-Focus / Out-of-Focus Groups, Brainstorming & facilitation
  • Interviews & User surveys
  • Sociological & Psychological Insights

Front-end Conceptual Design

  • Ideation
  • Form Finding / Generative Design
  • Concept Art
  • Functional Analysis / Systems Design / Block / Component / Circuit Diagrams
  • Engineering Calculations
  • Morphological Charts
  • Story-boarding / Comic-strip 
  • Interaction / Experience Design
  • Prototyping / Model Making 
  • Test-rigs / Breadboards / Proof of Concept fabrication
  • Brand Identity / λόγος / Graphic Design 

Middle-ground Decision Making 

  • Decision Map
  • Objectives Tree
  • Human Factors & Ergonomics (HFE)
  • Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  • Weighted Evaluation Matrix
  • Performance Requirements & Specifications
  • Control of Structural / Dynamic / Hydraulic / Thermal / Chemical / Electrical / Magnetic phenomena
  • Hardware / Firmware / Software / Wetware testing via the Scientific Method
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA) / Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Back-end Detailed Design

  • Class-A G³ Studio / Parametric / Computational Surfacing
  • Polygonal Modeling / Texture Mapping
  • Animation / Skeletal Rigging / Forward & Inverse Kinematics
  • Design for Manufacturing (DfM) & Assembly (DfA)
  • Design with Polymers / Metals / Composites / Glass / Ceramics / Biomass
  • Design for Molding / Casting / Additive Layering (3D Printing) / Forming / Joining / Welding / Cutting / Machining / Finishing
  • Colours, Materials, Finishes (CMF)
  • Value Engineering
  • Finite Element Analysis (FEA) & Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation
  • Cost of Goods (CoGs) & Bill of Materials (BoM) analysis
  • Supplier / Manufacturer / Machine shop Communications
  • Procurement of Original Equipment Manufactured (OEM) items
  • Technical Layout / Assembly / Part Drawings
  • Geometrical Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) / Engineering Limits & Fits / Statistical Analysis 
  • Part Inspection / Metrology / Reverse Engineering
  • IP Drawings & Diagrams
  • Manufacturing planning & process support
  • Assembly process documentation
  • Still Image Rendering / Animation Rendering / Visual Effects
  • Machine Learning / Scientific Computation 
  • Studio Photography / Videography / Editing
  • Marketing / Advertising / Propaganda / Campaign support 

Software & Data 

Depending on the Nature and needs of your project we can use one or many of these special software applications:

 

3ds Max

Alias (Autodesk)

Ansys

After Effects (Adobe)

Balsamiq
 
 

Camtasia

Character Animator (Autodesk)

Dreamweaver (Autodesk)

Flash (Adobe)

Fuse (Adobe)
 
 

Illustrator (Adobe)

InDesign (Adobe)

Inventor (Autodesk)

Grasshopper

Keyshot
 
 

Lightroom

Matlab

Maya (Autodesk)

Mental Ray (Nvidia)

MindJet
 
 

Modo

Motion Builder (Autodesk)

Mudbox (Autodesk)

Photoshop (Adobe)

Premiere Pro (Adobe)
 
 

Realflow

Rhino

Sketchbook (Autodesk)

SketchUp (Google)

Slack
 
 

Solidworks (Dassault Systems)

Trello

Unity

Unreal

NX Unigraphics (Siemens PLM)
 
 

WordPress

V-ray (Chaos Group)

Wacom

Xperience Design (Adobe)