How a project start:

Most projects starts with an initial meeting, where we meet and listen to your needs, expectations and wishes.

This meeting is confidential, non-binding and free of charge.

- The next meeting is often an in-depth dialogue to further clarify the findings from the initial meeting and make a plan for how to reach the goal. Which processes are best? Is it a market analyses, price and user expectations, or ergonomic, materials and mechanical solutions? And what about sustainability? Often the process includes all  these focuspoints and more.

- Together we map out these focuspoints, balance their importance and sketch out the initial approach.

Sometimes we need a workshop with brainstorms in workgroups, and at other times a few emails are enough.

- With these focuspoints we can initiate an investigative process. Our Wave-model can include focuspoints like these:

- Idea developement

- Competitors and prices

- User expectations

- Functionality and complexity

- User experience

- Interface design

- Ergonomics

- Aesthetics

- Flexibility and modularity

- Sustainability:

          CO2-emission, durability, design for repair, reuse of existing materials, reuseability of materials and recycling

- Technical and mechanical possibilities and limitations

- Redesign and upgrades of existing product

- Documentation (CE, medico etc.)

- Prototyping, production time, packaging and distribution

- Critical designs: mapping of 'known knowns', 'known unknowns' and 'unknown unknowns'.

The sketching starts in an iterative process, where the functional sketch is considered through possibilities mentioned above, which brings new perspectives, possibilities and limitations. Through a number of cycles, and sometimes setbacks, the sketch is refined to the end goal.

One of the steps in testing the functional design is sometimes by producing prototypes on our 3D-IDEX printer. This allows us to test the product in the early phases before the actual production-phase.

Our specialities:

Both from education and many years of experience in the industry, we can list the following specialities:

- A Ph.D. in user interface design

- Several innovative industrial design projects

- Sustainability:

     - In depth sustainability knowledge about durable,

       low, impact, low emission and recyclable materials

     - Research in design for disassembly