According to the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), industrial design strives to elevate both the function and aesthetics of all things made, from automobiles and medical instruments to ...

QFD (quality function deployment) is a family of tools that can help engineers during the early stages of product development. A method of assessing options for new product definition, QFD can help ...

Design for manufacturing is a problem that has always plagued engineering teams. Product designs that look great as computer-aided design (CAD) often run into real-world obstacles when they reach the ...

Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...

Industrial and product design form the nexus of engineering, aesthetic deliberation and user‐centred innovation. Underpinned by a rich heritage that spans the birth of mass production to today’s agile ...