The product design process

Identify feature list
- Configuration
- Scale
- Functionality
- Personality

Visualize solutions, combining, adapting, cross-breeding and morphing features of related products

Explore potential material-process combinations

Materialize through model building and rapid prototyping

Prototype with production materials and processes


Reference: Materials and Design, the art and science of material selection in product design. By Make Ashby and Kara Johnson. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford UK, 2006

(Functionality is a measure of how well a product meets its technical expectations. Personality measures the degree to which it provides emotional delight and satisfaction in ownership.)