Creative Design Engineering

This is the first step in testing the requirements of your design.

Whether this is in design, engineering, or building a prototype Sometimes it's best to just Start Over.

Design for X (DfX, DFX) or Design for Excellence where "X" is a variable that can have many different values.

Done is better than perfect.

I've been in product design and development (R&D) for almost 10 years. I've seen a lot of successful projects, and I've also seen a lot...

Frequently, inventors come to me asking for help with design for injection molding. Usually, it's a molding company that has told them to...

How do you start a profitable $100M business? By growing a profitable $100k business. Success isn't a step function It's a series of...

I’ve seen too many design projects stall out in the pursuit of perfection. I like to say, done is better than perfect. Get to a MVP...

When I'm stuck on a challenging problem, I like to ask unrelated/random questions. Questions that force me to think about the problem...

Sometimes, devices fail in the marketplace because they have a fundamental usability problem The cartridges are hard to swap out. The...

I've heard it said that there few creatives and millions of critics. A critic sees what IS, and asks questions: Why did they do it this...

We're wrapping up with a few tricks to find manufacturing vendors for development.

Let me know if you want help navigating your next product development program.

I see product innovation everywhere.

Prototypes can reduce risk for later investments, in Time or Money.

Have you considered changing an existing idea/invention in simple way to make a whole new experience?

Use prototypes to learn what works (and what doesn't) as quickly as possible.

We're going to talk about how much to budget for design work.

I was watching my son play with a LeapPad toy book. It had a sensing pen to teach colors, letters, numbers, etc by tracing them in a...

Monetizing an invention should be primary decision when deciding whether an invention idea has merit.

​Design prototypes to satisfy testing strategy. Plan your tests first. Build only what is needed to pass the test. Then plan your next tests

Product development is a long, complicated road.

Want to get your product to the market faster?

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”