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Product Design and its importance

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Product Design and its importance

Although there exists no clear way to define product design yet for common understanding, it may be defined as the holistic approach towards building a new product from start to finish. Product design encompasses everything from doing market research, product development, identifying obstacles coming in way of its development and designing.

Product design involves imagining and conceptualizing for creating objects for their mass production. Product designing is an analytical process that involves visualizing the needs of the user and concentrates around problem solving for the benefit of end user.

For creating product design, the Product designers are there who work with product engineers and other marketing professionals. Product design is often employed for creating medical devices, tableware, jewelry, sports and leisure items that may be used to bring comforts to the life. In addition product design is extremely useful in devising food preservation appliances and furniture etc.

Product design processes

Product design is based on your ideas for a product, its objective, functions and imagination of design for which you need to create a concept sketch of your visualization of the product.

The concept sketches of product drawn by hand are transformed into computer-generated 3D models using Computer-Aided Design (CAD). The CAD i.e. Computer-Aided Designs are further transformed into test prototype models through process of 3D printing and other rapid prototyping procedures.

The product design process revolves around:

• Purpose of product
• Procedure for producing product
• Ideal materials to be used  
• Durability and Effectiveness of product  
• Cost of product

All these factors are considered thoughtfully by the product engineer while developing a product.

Role of Product Engineers

Product engineers play a crucial role in giving final shape to the product imagined by you by incorporating and applying better ideas and developing a product that may improve life of its users.

They not only generate fresh new ideas and apply them into real products but also use their experience and working knowledge of the materials and manufacturing process can immensely help creating a useful product of your dreams.

Basically, design process encompasses a series of steps that are essential for product design engineer to follow while formulating a product from start to finish.

The steps involved in product design process include:

• Defining the product vision - based on user needs
• Product research- to develop a deeper understanding of users
• User analysis – based on feedback
• Ideation – to come up with as many creative solutions
• Design Testing and validation- Build a better prototype
• Post-launch activities – promotion and marketing tools

Product Design Engineers are required to conduct tests and surveys to evaluate the newly created product in terms of functionality, visual appeal, safety and durability on the basis of feedback.

When you dream or visualize creating an immaculately designed product that may help easing life of users, there can be no other place better than Glober Design. The company has a team of experienced and creative product engineers who are capable of giving shape to your ideas and help creating utility products for mass production at most reasonable cost.

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