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Design
& NPD links
There are many sites with design-related
content, posted by Research groups, Government agencies, Design
Consultancies and Professional bodies. A selection of these are
listed below. Of particular interest are the galleries of
products which show examples of award-winning products, often
with useful background information. Links are grouped as follows:
Design Organisations
IDSA Industrial Designers Society
of America
The Design Council
Smallpeice Enterprises Ltd
(training)
Royal College of Art
Industrial
Design Engineering course
Design Management
Institute
Korea Institute of
Industrial Design
Design Agenda
(Design think tank)
Share Dutch Design
(lots of design-related links)
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Research / Academic
GDP
Project page
Open University's
Department of Design and Innovation
Design
Innovation Group
Virtual Design
Museum at TU Delft
Helen Hamlyn Research Centre
(at RCA)
National Centre for
Product Design and Development Research (Wales)
Brunel
Design Research Centre
European
Academy of Design (Sheffield Hallam page)
European Academy
of Design discussion list (Mailbase)
Second European
Academy of Design Conference, Stockholm 1997 (index of papers)
Bruce,
Cooper & Vazquez: Design management in small companies
Gemser: Industrial
design for competitiveness
Roy
& Riedel: Design and innovation in successful product
competition (MADRID)
Future
issues in Design Research 1999 Final Report
Table of
Contents
Executive
summary
Institute of Design
Human
factors matrix
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Some Design Company pages
IDEO (different
content each time you access this page - try RELOAD)
The Wright Design
Partnership
Cre'active Design
Opius Ltd
Cambridge Consultants Ltd
itch
PDD
Cambridge Design
Partnership Ltd
Complete Fabrication
(Modelmakers)
Seymour Powell
frog design
42 Technology
London Associates
Pearson Matthews
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Articles
Product
Design: The shape of things to come (Medical product design)
More
than meets the eye (Electronic times June 29, 1998)
Interaction
Design (PDF of Blueprint article available for download)
Project
Apple: Design for Manufacture at Atco Qualcast (lawnmowers)
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Lists of Product Design Consultants
The Directory of
Design Consultants (hosted by EDI Ltd)
European
Medical Manufacturers Suppliers - Product Design Consultants
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Galleries
IDSA Industrial
Design Excellence Awards
IDEA 2000
Winners Showcase
IDEA 2001
Winners Showcase
IDEA 2002
Winners Showcase
IDEA 2003
Winners Showcase
IDSA
100 Years of Design
Virtual
Design Museum at TU Delft
Designers
Companies
Royal College of Art
Show 2000 online
Industrial
Design Engineering (IDE) Show 2000 online
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Product
Histories
General
Historical
inventions
Famous
inventors
Planet
Sinclair
Computing
Timelines
of history (personal computers, handheld computers, video games
etc)
DIGITAL
(DEC) computing timeline
History
of the Integrated Circuit (IC)
Old computers (extensive
gallery)
Personal
computer history (may be gone)
HP
virtual museum
Vintage calculators
web museum
Museum of Pocket Calculating
Devices (extensive gallery of different designs)
Laser printers
Laser
printer timeline
Xerox Star 8010
Consumer
electronics
Recording
technology history - from cylinders to digital
The
Digital revolution
VCR
History of
the CD
DVD
timeline
A Brief
History of DVD
History
of DVD
TV history (television)
Pictorial
History of Media Technology
The
making of the Xbox
Apple Newton
gallery
Apple Newton
hall of fame
Palm
timeline
Domestic
appliances
A brief history of
the sewing machine
The
vacuum cleaner: a potted history
Vacuum cleaner
More
vacuum cleaner - from the UK patent office
The
History of Vacuum Cleaners (Booth / Spangler / Hoover)
Elias
Howe (sewing machines)
Isaac
Merrit Singer (sewing machines)
Lawnmower
history
Other
stuff
Food
canning
The
history of canned food
The
London Underground (Tube) Map (designed by Harry Beck in
1933)
Xerox
914 photocopier
Chopper
bicycle
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Technologies
OLED
"Screens
of plastic could be fantastic"
How stuff works
E Ink
Xerox
Gyricon
Electronic
paper
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Events
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NPD
links
PDMA
Ulrich and Eppinger
MIT CIPD
Product Development Institute
Inc, Ontario (Founder Robert Cooper + Scott Edgett)
Stage-Gate Inc (Founder
Robert Cooper + Scott Edgett)
Stage-Gate (TM)
SG
Benchmarker (TM)
Accolade (TM)
('Automate' your Stage-Gate process)
The Product
Development Institute Inc, New Jersey (Tony Rizzo) TOC stuff
for NPD
TOC
Project Management Tutorial
Building
useful Project Plans - Tutorial
Realization Technologies
Inc Concerto Critical Chain Multi-Project Management software
ProChain Solutions Inc
Critical Chain Project Management tool (CEO Rob Newbold)
IDe Integrated Development
Environment (Chairman Michael McGrath, MD of PRTM)
Sopheon
Innovation
Focus
Article:
Futurism - fact from fantasy
Flomerics Virtual
Prototyping tools (mainly thermal simulations)
Interview
with Don Reinertsen Managing the Design Factory
Reinertsen
on Funnels
NPD-Solutions
Benchmaking and NPD Assessment
New Product Dynamics
NPD and Project Risk Management (Preston Smith) "Developing
Products in Half the Time"
Several downloadable
articles on NPD and risk management
Critique
of stage-gate process
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Other
sites of interest
Multimedia
case studies in Engineering Design
IBM
Proprinter Case Study
Mattel
Color Spin Case Study
MIT Virtual Customer
initiative (check out the demos)
Design
Council "Better by Design" page (Seymour / Powell)
Dyson (Vacuum
cleaners and washing machine)
Design
in Biz project at University of Michigan School of Art &
Design
Websites which link to us!
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