What is product design?
The process for creating new products for selling to the consumers is known as product design. It is a wide concept; it mandatorily includes effective and efficient development and generation of ideas by going through a process which gives birth to new products.
Conceptualization and evaluation of ideas by product designers in a systematic way leads to the birth of tangible products through inventions. Product designers combine science, art and technology for creation of new products to be used by end-users. The product designers have started using digital tools for designing of new products. These digital tools enable the designers to visualize, communicate, analyze and finally give tangible shape to the product idea. These tools reduce the requirement for manpower.
Product design process
Many product design processes exist and each focus on different aspects. Product design processes allow designers in the formulation of new products from ideas. A group of individuals help in the completion of the process. The group of individuals includes field experts, industrial designers, prospective users, engineers, etc. Product designing processes concentrate on finding out the product requirement, developing ideas, creating demo products and finally creation of the products. However, it does not bring end to the process. At this moment, product designers will need to do execution of ideas, creation of new products and then calculate its rate of success by observing whether any kind of improvement is required or not.
The rise of 3D printing and its popularity over the years have led to huge improvement in product designing processes. 3D printers have allowed the consumers find dimensional items that give a better understanding of the products to be produced. Product design process includes the following steps:
• Analysis
• Concept
• Synthesis
Analysis
Assessing the situation is the first step in the process of