Design Management Group

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
• Research / Academic
• Design Company pages
• Articles on design
• Lists of Product Design Consultancies
• Product Galleries
• Product Histories
• Technologies
• NPD links
• Other sites of interest

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
• Virtual Design Museum at TU Delft
• Helen Hamlyn Research Centre (at RCA)
• National Centre for Product Design and Development Research (Wales)
• 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
• 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)

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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
• 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)
• History of the Integrated Circuit (IC)
• Old computers (extensive gallery)
• HP virtual museum
• Vintage calculators web museum
• Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices (extensive gallery of different designs)
• Laser printer timeline
• Xerox Star 8010

Consumer electronics

• Recording technology history - from cylinders to digital
• History of DVD
• TV history (television)
• Pictorial History of Media Technology
• The making of the Xbox
• Palm timeline

Domestic appliances

• The vacuum cleaner: a potted history
• Vacuum cleaner
• The History of Vacuum Cleaners (Booth / Spangler / Hoover)
• Elias Howe (sewing machines)
• Isaac Merrit Singer (sewing machines)
• Lawnmower history

Other stuff

• Food canning
• The London Underground (Tube) Map (designed by Harry Beck in 1933)
• Xerox 914 photocopier
• Chopper bicycle

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Technologies

• OLED
• How stuff works
• E Ink
• Xerox Gyricon

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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)
•     Accolade (TM) ('Automate' your Stage-Gate process)
• 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

• MIT Virtual Customer initiative (check out the demos)
• Design Council "Better by Design" page (Seymour / Powell)
• Dyson (Vacuum cleaners and washing machine)