Product Design Show - ENGINEERING.com show

Product Design Show - ENGINEERING.com

Summary: Every week the Product Design Show digs into the engineering and design behind well-known products. Vince and Allison deliver a fast-paced and entertaining show that features their unique combination of story-telling and humor.

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Podcasts:

 Biomimicry. When Nature Inspires Design | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 3:28

Vince and Allison report on important examples of biology in design, from birds in flight to a new car whose shape was inspired by a box fish.

 Designing Products that are Easy to Assemble | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 4:04

Vince and Allison speak with designers at toy company, k'nex, and learn a few things about designing products that will be assembled in the field.

 Complying with Sustainable Design Requirements | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 2:52

How do designers meet regulatory requirements and consumer preferences for sustainable design? Vince and Allison delve into design practices that comply with standards like RoHS and Reach.

 Product Design for Emerging Markets | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 4:04

Emerging markets represent the biggest sales opportunities for western brands. But what’s a designer to do when competitors release a $65 smartphone tailored to the needs of those consumers? In this episode, Vince and Allison explore design challenges for foreign markets.

 Multi-CAD Environments are the New Normal for Design | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 3:36

Why do different CAD systems cause a problem for designers? It comes down to the feature definitions in the various packages. Newer software does a better job of geometric translation. That’s a good thing, since multi-CAD environments aren’t going away any time soon.

 Retrieving Design Intent for Old Models | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 3:40

Vince and Allison discuss how to retrieve the design intent from a CAD model even though the original designers no longer work at the company. This episode shows how to edit CAD models without knowledge of the model's feature history.

 Modifying a design from another CAD system | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 3:29

Vince and Allison show how a supplier can use direct modeling to modify a design from a customer that’s in a different CAD format.

 The Whats and Whys of Direct Modeling | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 3:26

Vince and Allison explain direct modeling and compare it to parametric modeling, using lots of examples.

 Late Stage Design Changes | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 4:12

Allison and Vince overview the concept of Flexible Modeling, a combination of parametric and direct modeling environments. Vince uses direct modeling to accommodate Allison’s late stage design change even though the original part was designed with parametric modeling.

 Parametric Modeling - Pros and Cons | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 4:12

In this episode Allison and Vince review the reasons why parametric modeling provides such a powerful CAD environment, but recognize that it's not necessarily the best solution in every case.

 Modernizing Product Concept Design | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 3:45

In this episode Allison and Vince show you how CAD systems have advanced to bring the most important part of your business, Concept Design, into the 21st century.

 Top Down and Bottom Up Design | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 4:07

In this episode, Vince and Allison talk about when top down design is the right way to go and the value that design teams can get from a bottom up approach.

 Integrative Thinking and Experimentalism in Design Thinking | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 4:59

In this episode of the Product Design Show, Vince and Allison explore the last two components of design thinking, integrative thinking and experimentalism, and explain why those two elements are crucial to the whole process.

 Design Thinking. Bringing Empathy and Collaboration to Your Designs | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 4:15

Design Thinking is a process of bringing integrative thinking, experimentalism, collaboration and empathy into the design process in a structured way. In this episode Vince and Allison walk us through the empathy and collaboration aspects of this framework.

 The Evolution of Product Design Tools | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 4:16

Product concept design tools have come a long way from hand sketches. Even proper drafting rules made a big difference, and so have computer design tools. Now designers are using social media to bring consumer interaction into the concept stage of product design.

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