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Rugged sensor on Australian agricultural equipment built for heat and dust

Designing Electronics Harsh Environments

Designing Electronics for Harsh Environments: What Actually Fails and Why   Cold is rarely the whole problem. Repeated change is often what does the damage. Harsh environment electronics design is not entirely separate from ordinary product design. Extreme conditions accelerate many familiar failure mechanisms and can also introduce environment-specific ones.

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Award Winning Product Design

Award Winning Product Design – What Does It Take?

What’s the secret to developing and designing a Best in Class, award-winning product? In our experience, it isn’t a secret at all. It’s a disciplined commitment to user-centered product development and electronics design, an open, respectful partnership with the client, and a willingness to iterate until the solution is both

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The trade-off-triangle

The trade-off-triangle

Exploring the trade-off triangle in electronic product development Companies naturally want their product development projects to be affordable, high-quality, and fast. It sounds like a reasonable expectation, but developers who are great at engineering know that you can only pick two of the three. This dilemma is just a reality

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Three Types of Prototypes

Three types of prototypes

When developing a new product, you should always go through the three types of prototypes. I’m talking about specific kinds, each with a different purpose, scope and goals associated with it. 1. The Feasibility Prototype: Can it work? The first is a feasibility prototype. It’s rough, simple and fast and answers

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Building to learn

Building to learn

There’s no such thing as a “final product”. In this post and video, we explore why focusing on a “final product” might be holding you back and biasing your approach to developing a product.

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Start with the User

Start With The User

In developing a product the right place to start is with the user. Who is the product for? This post and video unpacks how to get your project off to a good start.

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Rugged sensor on Australian agricultural equipment built for heat and dust

Designing Electronics Harsh Environments

Designing Electronics for Harsh Environments: What Actually Fails and Why   Cold is rarely the whole problem. Repeated change is often what does the damage. Harsh environment electronics design is not entirely separate from ordinary product design. Extreme conditions accelerate many familiar failure mechanisms and can also introduce environment-specific ones.

Read More »
Award Winning Product Design

Award Winning Product Design – What Does It Take?

What’s the secret to developing and designing a Best in Class, award-winning product? In our experience, it isn’t a secret at all. It’s a disciplined commitment to user-centered product development and electronics design, an open, respectful partnership with the client, and a willingness to iterate until the solution is both

Read More »
The trade-off-triangle

The trade-off-triangle

Exploring the trade-off triangle in electronic product development Companies naturally want their product development projects to be affordable, high-quality, and fast. It sounds like a reasonable expectation, but developers who are great at engineering know that you can only pick two of the three. This dilemma is just a reality

Read More »
Three Types of Prototypes

Three types of prototypes

When developing a new product, you should always go through the three types of prototypes. I’m talking about specific kinds, each with a different purpose, scope and goals associated with it. 1. The Feasibility Prototype: Can it work? The first is a feasibility prototype. It’s rough, simple and fast and answers

Read More »
Building to learn

Building to learn

There’s no such thing as a “final product”. In this post and video, we explore why focusing on a “final product” might be holding you back and biasing your approach to developing a product.

Read More »
Start with the User

Start With The User

In developing a product the right place to start is with the user. Who is the product for? This post and video unpacks how to get your project off to a good start.

Read More »