Product Design is defined as the idea generation, concept development, testing and manufacturing or implementation of a physical object or service. It is possibly the evolution of former discipline name - Industrial Design. Product Designers conceptualise and evaluate ideas, making them tangible through products. Designers deal with aspects of technology, ergonomics, usability, human factors, material technology and qualities.
Product designers are equipped with the skills neaded to bring products from conception to market. They should also have the ability to manage design projects, and subcontract areas to other sectors of the design industry.
Colleges such as Central Saint Martins in London have upgraded the name of their degree studies from Industrial to Product Design in recent decades. Other recognised international colleges to study an undergraduate degree in Product Design include:
Industrial :: Design
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Co [strategic innovations] - Netherlands based firm that develops new product ideas for businesses that deliver their products and/or services to the consumer market: B2C.
Meta Description: [ Koen & Co. is a Dutch Design Studio specialized in Industrial Product Design and Development specialized in injection molded products. ]
2N2 Product Development - Redondo Beach, California based company that specializes in plastic part design and development for injection molding and blow molding. Focus areas include housewares, electronics, medical, novelty, and commercial industries.
Meta Description: [ 2N2 Product Development (2n2) is a full service company, located in Redondo Beach, California that specializes in plastic part design and development for injection molding and blow molding. Our focus is on mass produced plastic items for the housewares, electronics, medical, novelty, and commerci... ]
A.C. di Amati Carlo - Specializing in home appliance design: aesthetic design, complete systems (cookers, ovens, burners), components, structural and thermal analisys, combustion testing.
Meta Description: [ Amati - AC Amati: progettazione e design di elettrodomestici. Siamo specializzati nella progettazione e nel design di cucine a gas e non e di elettrodomestici in genere. ]
Abes-Online - Designer of park benches, waste containers, bicycle stands and other products.
Meta Description: [ ABES entwickelt optisch anspruchsvolles, modernes und bedarfsgerechtes Mobiliar für den öffentlichen, halböffentlichen und privaten Raum. In Zusammenarbeit mit Industriedesignern, Architekten, Stadtplanern und kommunalen Entscheidungsträgern. ]
Acorn Product Development - Extensive experience in all stages of product design with specialties in the field of high volume electronics products.
Meta Description: [ New product development, industrial design, thermodynamic, mechanical engineering. Solidworks, Unigraphics, Proengineer services for turnkey manufacturing, injection molding in Fremont Ca Silicon Valley. ]
Allied Works - Digital Solutions,Mechanical,Industrial and Electronic Design, High-End PC enclosures - Serbia based consulting firm specializing in the design of products such as high-end PC enclosures, abinets, high-end audio equipment, furniture, etc.
Meta Description: [ Allied Works - Digital Solutions,Mechanical,Industrial and Electronic Design, High-End PC enclosures, Cabinets, Web Design,High-End Audio Equipment, Technical furnitiure, Audio Stands, Amplifiers, Products, Graphic design, Multimedia,Buses & Trucks Bodybuilding, Gearbox Diagnostics, Maintenance,... ]
Altitude Product Design and Development - Somerville, Massachusetts based product design and consulting firm with a strategic aptitude for developing award-winning high-touch products. Services include strategic planning, industrial design, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing consultation.
Artjar - Houston, Texas based designer focusing on product design, illustration, and other creative services.
Meta Description: [ Industrial Design... made funky. Clients include Hyatt Hotels, Compaq, Johnson Controls and others! IDEA & iF Design Award winners 713.291.9889 ]
Axiom - North Carolina design firm working with clients in markets such as computer, sports, consumer, medical, industrial products.
Meta Description: [ AxiomID the premier Industrial Design - product development company in the Charlotte North Carolina area, specializing in Medical, Computer, and Consumer Products both small and large. ]
Axis Group International Inc. - A rather longish slideshow of various products the company has designed.
BBiD - Product design and development of electronics, furniture, and sports equipment.
Big Design, Inc. - A product design company that can do the design phase, preliminary research, and the production phase of design projects.
Meta Description: [ Leverages end-user research, proprietary brainstorming techniques and product design expertise to identify and develop innovative, break-through new products and services. ]
Boym Design Studio - Gifts and home product design. Features portfolio and contacts.
Bresslergroup Product Development - Product design and engineering firm with over 30 years of experience, including user research and applying industrial design and engineering skills to create products.
Meta Description: [ Industrial design firms and product development firm with over 30 years of experience with industrial design and product development. ]
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Brooks Stevens Design - Strategic product development from one of the most experienced product development firms in the United States.
Cesaroni Design Associates, Inc. - Product and industrial design, development, and consulting. Includes case studies and services.
Meta Description: [ Cesaroni Design Associates Inc is an industrial design firm located in Chicago that helps businesses design products from the initial concept through our successful industrial design process. Our industrial designers have conducted product design and development for consumer products, fitness and... ]
Charlwood Design - Melbourne, Australia based industrial design firm providing innovative product solutions. Examples of methodolocy, concept projects, innovation, and CAD.
coq:xd - Develops innovative products for industry in a wide range of markets and technologies, both in graphic and product design.
Meta Description: [ De industriëel ontwerper van ontwerpbureau industrialdesign.nl richt zich op het creatief en systematisch ontwikkelen/ontwerpen van professionele en consumentenproducten ]
Creative Design Network, Inc. - Wisconsin based product design and development company offering services in all aspects of the design process, including conceptual development, engineering, prototypes, and production/tooling coordination.
Meta Description: [ Creative Design Network (CDN) provides complete product design and development services, including industrial design, engineering, prototype, and manufacturing support ]
Dan Taylor and Company - Toronto industrial and product design firm providing comprehensive services.
Meta Description: [ Dan Taylor Industrial Design ]
DCA Design International - British based design firm offering product design solutions from initial concepting through engineering, prototyping, and production.
Meta Description: [ DCA: one of the most experienced product design consultancies. Specialist product design for Consumer, Medical & Scientific, Commercial, Industrial, Packaging, Transport, Telecoms sectors. ]
Design Concepts, Inc. - Product design firm offering industrial design, mechanical and electrical engineering and prototyping services.
Design1st - Ottawa based product design firm serving the high-tech, medical and retail markets. Includes services, history, and contacts.
Meta Description: [ Our experienced visual and physical design team can help you imagine, create, model and engineer world class innovative products ]
E-M Designs - California based product design firm offering mechanical engineering, industrial design, and electrical engineering. Portfolio includes products for the consumer, industrial, medical and laboratory markets.
Meta Description: [ E-M Designs Inc - engineering, product design and development. Specializing in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, industrial, medical, laboratory, & consumer products. ]
Epoch Product Design - Providing a lifetime of design and fabrication experience combined with over eleven years of professional experience in the field.
Fitch Inc. - Developed an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach to retailing. Designs focus through environments, products, packaging, digital media, brand identity and brand experiences.
Fredricks Design, Inc. - Grand Haven, Michigan based product development firm providing industrial design, engineering, project management, lean manufacturing and recruitment services in the automotive, furniture and consumer goods industries.
Grotell Design, Inc. - Provides dedicated design, marketing and product development services to the fine watch, jewelry and time piece industries.
Group Four Design - Varied portfolio of work spanning industries such as housewares, hardware, industrial tools, medical, and office products.
Happy Design Gallery - Italy-based full-service product development office. Happy Design Gallery specializes in design and product planning.
Haughton Design Limited - Provides sub-contract and product design, and CAD services. Stafford, England.
Meta Description: [ Haughton Design Limited - The engineering design consultants with the experience to help you ]
Haughton Product Design - Providing product design and development services from the initial concept
design right through to CAD services & manufacturing support.
HumanFactors-ID - Product designers of anything from camping equipment to blood transfusion units and makeup applicators.
Hyphen Design - Hyphen Design (London) specializes in the design and development of highly innovative and functional products in areas including sports, commercial and consumer goods.
Meta Description: [ Product design and development consultants in the UK ]
ICO Products LLC - A product design, prototyping and manufacturing company.
Meta Description: [ ICO Products, LLC is a contract manufacturing, injection molding and product development company ]
Ignition - Product design and development firm specializing in industrial, graphic, mechanical design engineering, prototyping, and strategic product planning.
Meta Description: [ Ignition ]
Index Industrial Design and Development Inc. - Garrison, New York based product design firm with over 15 years of experience in product design, from concept to production.
Meta Description: [ Full-sevice N.Y. area product design and development firm with nearly 20 years experience. Located in Garrison, NY, one hour north of New York City in the Hudson Valley. From concept design, to design engineering, to part prototyping to engineering documentation and 3D modeling. Currently, Pro-De... ]
Industrial Design Consultants - Bangalore, India based design firm focusing on product development and package design.
Meta Description: [ Icarus design, a leading Branding and Industrial design consultancy, based in bangalore, India ... helps clients innovate in product design development and Branding to produce high-value business outcomes ]
Insight Product Development L.L.C. - Product-development consulting firm offering user research, design, engineering, and prototyping.
Integen, Inc. - Full service product design and engineering development firm.
jay wilson design - Portola Valley, California based industrial designer. Experience includes medical products, electronics, and workstation consoles.
Johannes Gaston Design, Inc. - A full-service product design firm taking projects from concept through production.
Meta Description: [ A full-service product design firm taking projects from concept through production. We use realistic 3-D computer simulation and concept modelmaking to "dream" and Pro/ENGINEER to make it easy to manufacture. Our process starts with . . . ]
JPH Industrial Design - Illinois based design firm specializing in the design of consumer electronics products. Services include 3-dimmensional computer design and photo-realistic computer renderings.
Kendall, DeWitt - Product designer with experience in architecture and graphic design. Biographical information, professional credits, portfolio.
Meta Description: [ Selected works of chicago architect &
industrial designer Dewitt Kendall. The award winning architect displays
examples of theoretical architecture, fine art, furniture, and product
design.
]
KID - Multi-disciplinary professional studio dedicated to toy invention licensing, structural packaging and design, and environmental illustration.
King-Miranda Associati - Specialists in the design of innovative products, services and interiors.
Lefler, Terry - Product design with an emphasis in electronics.
Leisure Incorporated - A product development company providing industrial design, product design and prototyping.
Meta Description: [ Leisure Design is a vertically integrated product development company. We have capabilities that allow us to perform any product development service in house. ]
Lewis Associates - Leicester, UK based design firm focused on providing creative, commercial design solutions for manufacturing and marketing organisations.
Line.h ltd. - UK based design firm focusing on product design and graphic design.
Logic Product Development - A Minnesota-based industrial design and product development company.
LORE Product Design and Engineering - Ontario based provider of product development and engineering design solutions. Lore's services include industrial design and mechanical engineering, RD, prototypes, and CAD/CAE.
Meta Description: [ Provider of product development and engineering solutions. Services include Industrial and Mechanical design and Engineering, R&D, building of prototypes, CAD/CAE, drafting documentation, testing, etc. 'Right the first time' guarantee. From your Idea we materialize your Dreams into Finished Pro... ]
Lunar Design - Focus is on consumer goods, technology products and medical equipment.
Lyle Lambur Toy Design - Experienced designer. General information, portfolio and resume.
Meta Description: [ Online
portfolio showcasing the extraordinary
talents of Lyle Lambur - Toy Designer,
Toy Sculptor, Toy Industry Consultant.
Featuring work for virtually every
licenser and licensee in the toy
industry. ]
Machineart-Corex - Industrial design and plastic part engineering: medical devices, computer equipment, consumer electronics, personal care products, tools, recreational vehicle bodies and accessories.
MASS Engineered Design Inc. - Full-service product development company employing various disciplines including industrial design, mechanical engineering, and rapid prototyping.
Meta Description: [ The massmultiples(TM), manufacturer of complete multiDisplay systems, quality designed products available in a wide array of configurations. ]
Maya Design Group - A product-design and development consultancy company that specializes in taming the complexity of technology.
Meta Description: [ MAYA Design MAYA is a design consultancy and technology research lab. We make complex technology products easier to use. Our clients learn to capitalize on technological change. MAYA's scientists, engineers, and artists tame complexity in ways that lead to positive, fruitful experiences for our c... ]
MOTO Development Group - Developing products for a large range of industries including computer, consumer electronics, medical, food service, laboratory and industrial.
Meta Description: [ MOTO is a full-service product development firm that provides solutions from concept to final product. We make it work. ]
Mount Vernon Design - Disciplines include molded plastic parts, sheet metal chassis and enclosures, and circuit boards.
Meta Description: [ Mont Vernon Design ]
No Picnic Industrial Designers - Stockholm, Sweden based industrial design firm offering a variety of product development services.
Meta Description: [ No Picnic Industrial Design - swedish design, product design, product designer, industrial designer ]
Not Me 2 Devices - New York based product development firm specializing in products for automotive and aeronautical applications.
Meta Description: [ Not Me 2 Devices is an emerging product design and development firm, designing and marketing devices for automotive, aeronautical and other applications. ]
PDD - International product definition, design, development and production firm. Includes services, approach, and contacts.
Meta Description: [ PDD is a leading international product design and innovation consultancy. Our core skills include innovation planning, brand strategy, trends analysis, ergonomics, behavioural research, consumer insight, product design, product innovation, industrial design, engineering design, model making, prot... ]
PDS Development, Inc. - Texas firm providing project development services including industrial design, mechanical design, prototyping, tooling, and project management.
Plastic Buddha Design Inc. - Canadian design firm founded in 1998 that designs, manufactures and exports products for the physical landscape as well as doing contract design work.
Product Creation Studio - A solution-oriented product development firm devoted to the creation of quality-engineered products for consumer and industrial markets.
Meta Description: [ Product Ceation Studio is a leading product development firm located in Seattle, Washington. Our services include product branding, industrial design, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and embedded systems. Our electrical team has experience in wireless design including Zigbee desi... ]
Product Insight,Inc. - Massachusetts based product design firm providing services to manufacturers in a range of industries, from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups.
Raffo Design - Product design consultancy, developing consumer, industrial and medical products for world-wide markets. Based in the UK.
Meta Description: [ Evoke creative, Evoke Instore, product design, product design consultant, product design consultancy, product design company, point of sale design, point of purchase design, display design, packaging design ]
Rand i.d. - Design for a broad range of industries including consumer goods and industrial products.
Renquist Associates - Human factors engineering and vehicle, medical product, appliances and lighting design.
Meta Description: [ Renquist Associates Inc. is a full-service design firm in
Racine, Wisconsin. We offer coordinated product design, and web design. Specialties include graphic design, and specialize in
human factors engineering, corporate identity programs, marketing, healthcare
and financial. ]
Richman Design - Handmade acrylic furniture, sculpture, podia and custom awards.
RKS Design, Inc. - A company whose services span the entire product development process, from initial concept generation through finished production.
Meta Description: [ RKS Design ]
Schneor Design - Israel-based industrial design studio offering product design and computer imaging.
Meta Description: [ Schneor Design - Industrial Design From Art To Part Product design and Computer Imaging (visualization) ]
Slingshot Product Development Group - Atlanta based design firm that partners with start-ups and inventors. Established companies also hire Slingshot to develop breakthrough products.
Meta Description: [ Slingshot is a vertically integrated product development firm specializing in ideation, product design, prototyping, engineering, design for manufacture, packaging, program management, and manufacturing coordination. ]
SoMA Inc. - Portland, Oregon based product design firm offering a wide range of product development services. The site includes short descriptions of previous client projects in consumer, industrial and medical product design.
Speck Product Design - Product design and development firm for the mobile electronics, consumer electronics, medical, sporting goods and furniture industries.
Spring Design Network - A group of industrial designers which offers a full range of product design and engineering services.
Meta Description: [ Official Spring Design website. Design. ]
Stratos - Developing complete products as well as client-specified product components in a diverse range of areas.
Studio Korjan - Industrial design studio in Ahmedabad, India, dedicated to product design and development.
Meta Description: [ Studio Korjan is an Industrial Design studio entirely dedicated to Product Design and Development. ]
Surf-Ace-Design - Surf Ace Design focuses on the design of surface patterns and shapes for the ceramic and glass industries.
Synectic Engineering, Inc. - Medical product development, engineering, industrial design, device prototyping, pre-clinical and in vivo testing.
Meta Description: [ Synectic is a full service product development firm providing design, research, interface, engineering, pilot manufacturing services and industrial design for medical product companies. Synectic is based in Milford, Connecticut. ]
Talesfore, Nick - Product design with primary concentrations in electronic and medical items.
Meta Description: [ ID-3D Design is a Silicon Valley award winning industrial product consulting and design firm specializing in assisting with new product development ]
TEAMS Design - Industrial design consultants with product development services to reduce production costs and increase product sales. 100+ product photos. Offices in Chicago and Germany.
Meta Description: [ Industrial design for global brands. 100+ images of innovative products from the firm's 1000 Design Awards. In a TV feature the Chicago offices were.. ]
The Design Can - Brooklyn, Ney York based firm that specializes in the design of items for the home. Gallery of work, news, and information on the designers.
Meta Description: [ The Design Can is a Brooklyn-based creative team focused on design for exceptional living. ]
Toy Arts - Resource maintained by designer Mike Dox. Manufacturer listings and message board, in addition to his own portfolio and resume.
Meta Description: [ ToyArts.com is a useful tool for people in the Toy Industry. ToyArts.com has the sample portfolio of Mike Dox, a huge list of toy links to toy manufacturers, and an updated list of toy jobs. ]
tsu.R - A young contemporary design studio in Amsterdam.
Vertex Product Development - Product design and development services. Offering turnkey design, market analysis, engineering and manufacturing solutions. New York.
Meta Description: [ Vertex PD is a full service product development firm providing research, design, interface, engineering, and prototyping services. ]
Vicki Thomas Associates - London, England based design consultancy specialising in designing for the gift and related industries.
Axis Group International Inc. - A rather longish slideshow of various products the company has designed.
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