With more than 100 years combined experience in product design, development and engineering, the team at Objective Design is able to contribute, advise and assist at any stage of your project. We are a one stop supplier for all aspects of product development, from concept development and industrial design, through in-house rapid prototyping to medium and high volume manufacture.
Whether you need help with the entire process of bringing a concept to manufacture, or you need specialist services at any stage between, give us a call and we’ll tell you if we can help.
Industrial Design - Electronic Design - Mechanical Design - Software Design
Design reviews
We are happy to review work for projects undertaken elsewhere. It is often invaluable to get a fresh perspective on solutions to a design problem. We are also delighted when clients choose to use an independent reviewer for our work. We strongly feel our design outcomes stand up well in review and are improved by critique and evaluation. Objective Design's Design Review process ensures design standards, alignment and diligence requirements have been met or surpassed through the course of the product design process.
Standards
Ensuring designs meet appropriate standards for consistency, accessibility, usability, branding issues, sustainability (particularly shipping, packaging and recycling), emissions and susceptibility, FCC, CE, RoHS, Green Partners, etc.
Diligence
Realising maximum value from early-stage design methodologies. Increasing accountability and clarity of action plans by keeping and distributing minutes of each design review. Involving people outside the design team at appropriate points.
Alignment
Ensuring designs meet specification and business goals. Ensuring industrial design is integrated well into the brand or market sector targeted. Minimising late-stage changes to product requirements and concepts.
Packaging Design
Package design and development are crucial in most product development processes. Development of a package or packaging component can be a separate process, but should be closely linked with the product if it is to serve well. At Objective Design, package design starts with considering the following areas:
- Structural.
- Marketing.
- Shelf life
- Quality assurance.
- Logistics.
- Legal and regulatory.
- Graphic design.
- User behaviour.
- Environmental.
Design criteria, time limits, methodologies, technologies, materials and cost constraints must be established and agreed upon - although these may need to be kept flexible. Other considerations in package design:
Sustainability
Environmental responsibility, and environmental and recycling regulations - both existing and planned. A life cycle assessment, considering material and energy inputs and outputs; the packaged product, the manufacturing process, disposal, etc. Full understanding of regulatory requirements for all planned markets to internationalise and future-proof designs.