Learn how AI design copilots are redefining engineering speed, creativity, and system-level innovation.

When speaking of design, people often refer to the user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) but, in fact, design is also a product development process, involving architecture and infrastructure.

Product development, no matter the industry, is both an art and a science. Bringing a concept to life requires intensive research, ingenuity, risk-taking, iteration, testing, and a little magic. More ...

Releasing a new product is not a task to take lightly. If the product does not sell as planned, it is a wasted investment in advertising, inventory costs and manufacturing. To avoid this scenario, it ...

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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 ...

Product development processes can incorporate six sigma to yield products with extremely low defects based on requirements that are critical to the customer. In addition using six sigma can help ...

Back in 2022, I wrote about the triple threat of additive, agility and automation—three forces that were already reshaping manufacturing and product development. Fast forward to 2025, and these trends ...

Prototyping is ubiquitous in the product development world these days. Rapid prototyping methods, tools, and techniques are widely applied in the process of creating products. With proper ...

About 15 years ago, if someone had told David Schofield, an advanced surfacing designer at Trek Bicycle, that one day he and his team would owe their product design process to 17 software developers ...