When speaking of design, people often refer to the user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) but, in fact, design is also a product development process, involving architecture and infrastructure.

Editor's note: Mark Dohnalek is President & CEO of Pivot International, the Kansas-based global product development, engineering & manufacturing firm. The best ideas take time to build. Moving ...

Product development brings with it many misconceptions about what the process is truly like and how to ensure you're getting the most out of those you've hired to help. Be it product design, ...

Product development is facing a fundamental challenge. Unfortunately, at the very moment when companies need to make better products more efficiently, previous performance innovations in product ...

Product development may be understood generically as all the things that happen from the initial conception or invention of a product to the point when a product is launched into the market. It can ...

TUKWILA, WASH. – Speed is a key component of the new product development process today. The days of ideation and innovation taking place over a long period of time are gone. The process is now ...

In a consumer-driven economy, meeting customers' needs and wants has become paramount in generating long-term success and growth. Product development is key to maintaining and acquiring customers and ...

Market researchers use perceptual mapping to compare products (and potential products) based on the perceptions of customers. The purpose of a perceptual map is to identify the images that consumers ...

A strategy meeting with a client. When manufacturers need to get to those breakthrough ideas—and not just once, but regularly—partnering with a product development company can help. But if the process ...

Product development programs meet two types of measurable goals – goals that relate to the product itself and goals that integrate product development with broader business goals. Product-related ...

Like all industries, the design and manufacturing world experienced a shockwave of changes in 2020 due to the pandemic, and as a result many product development companies had to suddenly become more ...