Design
& NPD links
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) back to top...
Research
/ Academic GDP
Project page University's
Department of Design and Innovation Design
Innovation Group Virtual Design
Museum at TU Delft Design
research links (Strathclyde University) 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 back to top...
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 back to top...
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)back to top...
Lists of Product Design Consultants The Directory of
Design Consultants (hosted by EDI Ltd)
European
Medical Manufacturers Suppliers - Product Design Consultants back to top...
Galleries
Designs
of the decade Business
and Industrial Products Consumer
Medical
& Scientific
IDEA2000
Awards Business
and Industrial Products Consumer
Medical
& Scientific
IDEA
Galleries 1996-2000 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 Planet
Sinclair Food canning The
history of canned food Timelines
of history (personal computers, handheld computers, video games
etc) DIGITAL
(DEC) computing timeline Apple Newton
gallery Apple Newton
hall of fame 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) History
of the Integrated Circuit (IC) Personal
computer history Elias
Howe (sewing machines) Isaac
Merrit Singer (sewing machines) Business
Heroes - Elias Howe Historical
inventions Famous
inventors Lawnmower
history back to top...
Technologies
OLED "Screens
of plastic could be fantastic" How stuff works E Ink Xerox
Gyricon Electronic
paper back to top...
Events
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NPD
links PDMA Ulrich and Eppinger
MIT CIPD Product Development Institute
Inc, Ontario (Founder Robert Cooper + Scott Edgett) NewProd
3000 (TM) Stage-Gate (TM)
ProBE
Benchmarking tool The Product
Development Institute Inc, New Jersey (Tony Rizzo) TOC stuff
for NPD TOC
Project Management Tutorial Building
useful Project Plans - Tutorial Speed to Market
Concerto Multi-Project NPD software tool 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
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
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