We believe that good product development starts with deep insight into what people need. Truly understand what end users experience. People in the workplace, people on the street, people with disabilities. But also find out what is important for the client and other stakeholders. In this first phase of a project we engage with various stakeholders, we observe users and look at relevant technologies and competitors.
We believe it is important to immerse ourselves in the perception of the various users of your products. What do they encounter? How do they experience that? What are their motives? How do they deal with limitations? We translate all insights from this phase into a list of requirements for the rest of the design project.
Then we start exploring solutions. Here we make sketches, build quick prototypes & CAD models. And build further on the insights from the previous phase. Intuitively, we have a good idea of what the possibilities are, and we often also exchange ideas with the stakeholders we spoke to earlier.
Studio Rotor’s industrial designers are good at listening, asking questions, sketching fast solutions, building & testing. And that helps: the design team that does the research is immediately able to translate the insights into practical solutions.
At some point in the process it becomes clearer what the solution will look like. We work towards a concept design, in which it is clearly visible what the product will look like, what specifications it will have, and how it will be used.
In the final phase of product development, the concept design is worked out for production. For some projects Studio Rotor does the engineering, at other times we work together with specialists in the field of mechanical engineering, FEM analysis and optimization. Here we keep a close eye on whether the final product fits the earlier insights about the user and other stakeholders.
Studio Rotor helps SME-companies with product development for series production. Our clients are manufacturers for various industries, such as healthcare, transport & mobility, logistics and airports.
Sometimes we come across companies that have a fairly concrete picture of what they want to develop, but often we also help clients to get a clearer picture of the opportunities in the market.
We are not just talking about one product here. It is often a (modular) product line. Or a product-service combination. But always based on deep insight into the world of end users and other stakeholders.
At the start of a product development project, it can be difficult to make the first step. So many ideas and possibilities! One can easily be confused and not see what to do first. We’re glad to help you with that.
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