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Prosthetic designers face a fascinating range of issues when designing devices that simulate normal walking. In this episode Vince and Allison review how designers control the proportional loads from walking by capturing and harnessing the ground strike forces.

Indy cars can flip after an initial crash, like Franchitti's famous crash in 2007. Allison and Vince talk to engineers at Dallara about their redesign that makes such famous flips less likely.

Allison and Vince show a range of collaboration tools that help designers collaborate with suppliers on product concepts without sharing the full intellectual property of their designs.

In this episode Vince and Allison show us the intricacies of designing and manufacturing a carbon bicycle frame, and how one mountain bike company benefitted from incorporating one of their vendors into the design process.

In this episode Vince and Allison focus on tools to help an internal design team collaborate, from Social Media to Top Down Design to Skeleton models.

Fit and alignment are the keys to making prosthesis wearers achieve a proper gait. And gathering good data is the key to getting the alignment right. In this episode, Vince and Allison show how designers measure the complex forces and moments in a human stride.

There are already police robots currently on the market. However, in this week’s episode, Vince and Allison show us one that can also climb stairs…and be built at an economical price.

Green-powered vehicles typically look anything but cool. This week Vince and Allison show us an electric motorcycle that really turns heads.

In this episode Vince and Allison share tips and techniques to incorporate the voice of the customer into your product designs.

Firemen need a steady flow of water through the nozzle to safely put out fires. In this episode, Vince and Allison explain the design challenges of matching water flow to the different water pressure available at a variety of fire sites.

This week Vince and Allison take us on a tour of a high-speed warehouse that features packing machines operating at ground speeds of over 70 mph. Imagine how fast you could pack for your trip to Vegas, baby.

Architects typically consider the reflection of light in their work. In this episode, Allison and Vince show us how it is becoming increasingly significant to engineers, and their designs, as well.

New packaging machine custom measures and cuts cardboard to fit all sorts of products. Vince and Allison walk us through how it wraps a box of tiles. Imagine what this could do for your Christmas wrapping.

In this episode, Allison and Vince explore how designers of the Zenvo super-car created a road rocket that your mom could drive.

On this episode of "The Product Design Show", Vince and Allison look at overcoming the challenges of standard component sizes when designing and working with non-standard products.