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There are lots of ways to define a "disappointing product." But there are few things more frustrating than a product's design that breaks or wears out sooner than you expect. From the consumer's perspective, the purchase begins to feel like a trick.

Every designer knows that guiding an idea from being a burst of inspiration to being a product on the shelves is a grueling process. Bringing new inventions and ideas to life requires countless trips to the drawing board, endless iterations, lots of setbacks, and at..

When potential customers come to us looking for a design partner to bring their ideas to life, they usually have two main concerns: consistency in part size and shape and the delivery schedule.

3 Ways to Defend Your Design Against Knockoffs

Some 5,000 years ago, the first designers to make ice skates used bones to fashion the blades. The design worked — to a point. But in 1914, blade maker John E. Strauss of St. Paul, Minnesota, manufactured a closed-toe blade from a  single piece of steel. The skates..

For any product, the right material can make or break customer satisfaction, regardless of how interesting or innovative the product design process looks on paper.

These days, product design and development is as much about the feel of a product as is the look and functionality. For designers who haven’t traditionally had to focus on texture as a key component, this creates an interesting challenge. To craft the kinds of..

A new muscle ball roller massager from Pro-Tec Athletics, named the Orb Extreme, was recently reviewed in the March edition of  Competitor Magazine as one of the best new products to help runners with deep massaging relief of quads, hamstrings and lower back.

Is EVA foam safe? PopFoam is introducing a new method of developing  and processing our compound that offers certification that it is a non-toxic foam that meets the most stringent children's, US and European regulations for EVA foam uses. We call the process..