{"id":966,"date":"2018-05-23T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flex-main.lndo.site\/resources\/3-design-approaches-that-are-changing-product-development"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T19:26:52","slug":"3-design-approaches-that-are-changing-product-development","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/flex.com\/es\/resources\/3-design-approaches-that-are-changing-product-development","title":{"rendered":"Tres enfoques de dise\u00f1o que est\u00e1n cambiando el desarrollo de productos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"overscroll-top\" style=\"background-color: #eaeef4;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"resource-header block\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a title=\"Homepage\" href=\"\/\">Flex<\/a>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 384 512\"><path d=\"M365.3 256l-22.6 22.6-192 192L128 493.3 82.7 448l22.6-22.6L274.7 256 105.4 86.6 82.7 64 128 18.7l22.6 22.6 192 192L365.3 256z\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t<a title=\"Resources\" href=\"\/resources\">Resources<\/a>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 384 512\"><path d=\"M365.3 256l-22.6 22.6-192 192L128 493.3 82.7 448l22.6-22.6L274.7 256 105.4 86.6 82.7 64 128 18.7l22.6 22.6 192 192L365.3 256z\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t\t<a title=\"3 design approaches that are changing product development\">3 design approaches that are changing product development<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<h1>3 design approaches that are changing product development<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"separator\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"details\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"date detail\">\n\t\t\t\tPosted on<br>\n\t\t\t\tmayo 23, 2018\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"categories\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"categories-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"cat-tag\">Blog<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"cat-tag\" data-cat-level=\"1\">Services<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"sidebar block normal-sidebar\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<p>Brands are developing products and experiences that push the boundaries of what was previously thought possible. Connected products sense the ambient temperature and adjust environmental factors. Voice-activated speakers take users into digital experiences beyond the screen. Virtual reality devices use storytelling, visual design, and 3D elements to transport users to another world. Sensors collect data on how workplaces are utilized and make recommendations for improving the environment and experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Product designers&#8217; innovation, curiosity, and creativity are being pushed to their limits. Yet cultivating these qualities isn\u2019t enough. 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Consider the impact of designing <a href=\"https:\/\/flex.com\/industries\/cross-industry-technology\">IoT devices<\/a>. IBM noted on its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/internet-of-things\/iot-product-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Internet of Things<\/a>&nbsp;blog that when computer-aided design was in its early stages 30 years ago, physics drove the shape of products.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"id-69e01f485d827\" class=\"box block content-width light-content es \" style=\"background-color: transparent; background-image: none;\">\n\t<style>\n\t\t#id-69e01f485d827 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\tbackground-color: #005486ff;\n\t\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\t\tpadding-top: 12px;\n\t\t\tpadding-right: 24px;\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 12px;\n\t\t\tpadding-left: 24px;\n\t\t\tmargin-left: 0px;\n\t\t\tmargin-right: 0px;\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 1272px) {\n\t\t\t#id-69e01f485d827.box.block.full-width > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t\t#id-69e01f485d827 > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-top: 6px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 12px;\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-bottom: 6px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 12px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n<div id=\"block_edd6c4bd974171d7abda51c04064991e\" class=\"quote block no-horizontal-padding light-content\">\n\t<div class=\"container\" style=\"background-color: #005486;\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-lines-top\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-marks-top\" style=\"background-color: #005486;\">\n\t\t\t<svg viewBox=\"0 0 33 27\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m33 20.8c0-3.9-2.9-6.3-6.4-6.3-1.1 0-1.8.3-2.1.5.1-4.3 3.3-9 8-10.1v-4.9c-6 .6-14.2 5.9-14.2 18.2 0 5.9 3.6 8.8 7.8 8.8 3.9 0 6.9-2.8 6.9-6.2zm-18.3 0c0-3.9-2.9-6.3-6.4-6.3-1.1 0-1.8.3-2.1.5.1-4.3 3.3-9 8-10.1v-4.9c-6 .6-14.2 5.9-14.2 18.2 0 5.9 3.6 8.8 7.8 8.8 3.9 0 6.9-2.8 6.9-6.2z\" fill=\"#fff\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The idea was that the projected operating environment would provide the design variables that drove the optimization algorithms that would automatically modify the CAD shape parameters to optimize the product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/blogs\/internet-of-things\/iot-product-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u2014 IBM IoT blog<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-lines-bottom\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-marks-bottom\" style=\"background-color: #005486;\">\n\t\t\t<svg viewBox=\"0 0 33 27\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m0 6.2c0 3.9 2.9 6.3 6.4 6.3 1.1 0 1.8-.3 2.1-.5-.1 4.3-3.3 9-8 10.1v4.9c6-.6 14.2-5.9 14.2-18.2 0-5.9-3.6-8.8-7.8-8.8-3.9 0-6.9 2.8-6.9 6.2zm18.3 0c0 3.9 2.9 6.3 6.4 6.3 1.1 0 1.8-.3 2.1-.5-.1 4.3-3.3 9-8 10.1v4.9c6-.6 14.2-5.9 14.2-18.2 0-5.9-3.6-8.8-7.8-8.8-3.9 0-6.9 2.8-6.9 6.2z\" fill=\"#fff\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"spacer block\" style=\"height: 24px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now, it is business objectives \u2014 not shape \u2014 that are driving product design. Creators must model the product in operation, as well as how it will be manufactured and maintained. To do that, they are creating digital representations of their work, digital prototypes that use data to drive design choices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We use the knowledge we have acquired through&nbsp;Sketch-to-Scale<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>&nbsp;to help companies like yours take your idea from design to production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-designing-for-virtual-reality-in-virtual-reality\" style=\"font-weight:600\">Designing for virtual reality in virtual reality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Virtual reality (VR) experiences are one of the most innovative fields today, in terms of design demands. Product designers working in this medium are quickly finding that 2D screens don\u2019t translate to a seamless 3D design and editing experience. How can you efficiently interact with a 360-degree world on a flat screen? As a result, a number of tools are emerging that let designers work, shape, mold, and edit experiences in the same surround-sound environments as the ones in which users experience the content.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3065855\/a-rapid-prototyping-tool-for-creating-vr-worlds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fast Company<\/a>&nbsp;reported on StoryboardVR, which is a rapid prototyping tool that allows users to import an environmental map and then access and place a variety of different items within that world.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"id-69e01f485e99d\" class=\"box block content-width light-content es \" style=\"background-color: transparent; background-image: none;\">\n\t<style>\n\t\t#id-69e01f485e99d > .container > .content {\n\t\t\tbackground-color: #005486ff;\n\t\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\t\tpadding-top: 12px;\n\t\t\tpadding-right: 24px;\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 12px;\n\t\t\tpadding-left: 24px;\n\t\t\tmargin-left: 0px;\n\t\t\tmargin-right: 0px;\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 1272px) {\n\t\t\t#id-69e01f485e99d.box.block.full-width > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t\tmargin: 0 !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t\t@media (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t\t#id-69e01f485e99d > .container > .content {\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-top: 6px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-right: 12px;\n\t\t\t\t\/\/padding-bottom: 6px;\n\t\t\t\tpadding-left: 12px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t\n<div id=\"block_edd6c4bd974171d7abda51c04064991e\" class=\"quote block no-horizontal-padding light-content\">\n\t<div class=\"container\" style=\"background-color: #005486;\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-lines-top\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-marks-top\" style=\"background-color: #005486;\">\n\t\t\t<svg viewBox=\"0 0 33 27\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m33 20.8c0-3.9-2.9-6.3-6.4-6.3-1.1 0-1.8.3-2.1.5.1-4.3 3.3-9 8-10.1v-4.9c-6 .6-14.2 5.9-14.2 18.2 0 5.9 3.6 8.8 7.8 8.8 3.9 0 6.9-2.8 6.9-6.2zm-18.3 0c0-3.9-2.9-6.3-6.4-6.3-1.1 0-1.8.3-2.1.5.1-4.3 3.3-9 8-10.1v-4.9c-6 .6-14.2 5.9-14.2 18.2 0 5.9 3.6 8.8 7.8 8.8 3.9 0 6.9-2.8 6.9-6.2z\" fill=\"#fff\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">\u201cYou start inside an empty environment. From the palette, you pull in assets that you\u2019ve already built in Photoshop or some other conventional software. This can include spherical backdrops, like underwater scenes that seem to stretch into infinity, as well as all sorts of objects to fill it, like fish, whales, and blurbs of related text.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3065855\/a-rapid-prototyping-tool-for-creating-vr-worlds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fast Company<\/a> on StoryboardVR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-lines-bottom\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-marks-bottom\" style=\"background-color: #005486;\">\n\t\t\t<svg viewBox=\"0 0 33 27\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m0 6.2c0 3.9 2.9 6.3 6.4 6.3 1.1 0 1.8-.3 2.1-.5-.1 4.3-3.3 9-8 10.1v4.9c6-.6 14.2-5.9 14.2-18.2 0-5.9-3.6-8.8-7.8-8.8-3.9 0-6.9 2.8-6.9 6.2zm18.3 0c0 3.9 2.9 6.3 6.4 6.3 1.1 0 1.8-.3 2.1-.5-.1 4.3-3.3 9-8 10.1v4.9c6-.6 14.2-5.9 14.2-18.2 0-5.9-3.6-8.8-7.8-8.8-3.9 0-6.9 2.8-6.9 6.2z\" fill=\"#fff\"\/><\/svg>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"spacer block\" style=\"height: 24px;\">\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Other companies are developing similar tools that create virtual VR-editing environments that let designers be more hands-on in the design process.<br><br>Maheen Sohail, a product designer at Facebook,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/facebook-design\/becoming-a-virtual-reality-designer-9dcf6ddea4c3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">summed it up nicely<\/a>: \u201cA phrase we often say on the Facebook VR team is \u2018put it on your face.\u2019 This emphasizes the fact that you shouldn\u2019t design for VR without building a prototype that can be tried on a headset itself. Similar to how an app might look beautiful when designing it in Photoshop or Sketch but feels very different when you view it on your phone, watching a video of a VR experience is very different than how it actually feels once you see it in the headset.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virtual design and product creation environments are bringing a new level of reality to VR development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" id=\"h-smart-machines-designing-smart-tools\" style=\"font-weight:600\">Smart machines designing smart tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Connected devices are another frontier of design. In many cases, algorithms and machine learning are actually going to shape the design trends of the future in this space. Incorporating intelligent design tools in the creation of connected products, as meta as that sounds, is allowing for more creativity and faster iteration. As John Zimmerman, a Carnegie Mellon University professor and interaction designer, said to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90145027\/designers-arent-equipped-to-make-ai-heres-how-to-prepare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fast Company<\/a>, \u201cDesign generally evolves new ideas through a conversation with materials, where you develop a tacit understanding of the material\u2019s capabilities.\u201d Adaptive design based on real-time intelligence, which is made possible in part through intelligent devices, is a new tool in the product designer\u2019s arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-weight:600\">How might this work in reality?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider a smart system that also develops an awareness of how people use it, and then develops a set of insights to continuously improve the product design or connected dashboard. Right now, one of the biggest barriers to this is the complexity of creating machine learning models, but companies like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ai.googleblog.com\/2017\/05\/using-machine-learning-to-explore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Google<\/a>&nbsp;are working hard to create systems that automate the back-end processes of machine learning. As this becomes more accessible, it\u2019ll be possible to develop design tools and processes that more readily tap into these capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Creativity is often regarded as something ephemeral, an inherent quality that\u2019s held by designers and other creative types. However, the level of strategic insights, technological fluency, and sheer innovation that\u2019s being required by top product designers incorporates something else. 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