Intellectual Property Protection: How to Use Trade Marks & Patents to Protect Your Product Design
Intellectual property (IP) protects everything from your groundbreaking ideas to your brand's unique symbols. But, it's important to understand the variety of IP rights available, including trademarks, patents, and design rights, and when to apply for them.
With the right knowledge and foresight, you can effectively secure your ideas and transform them into valuable assets.
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Hurricane Lures Case Study: Using Biomimicry to Influence Product Design
Founded by Peter Nord (known as Nordy), Hurricane Lures Australia sells specialty fishing lures and tackle ranging from novice to pro.
Driven by a deep love of lure fishing for bream in East Gippsland, Victoria, Nordy has been an avid angler for countless years. Every lure has been meticulously tested and fine-tuned for optimal performance.
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Scaling Your Manufacturing: Tips on Volume Production
Whether you have a startup or are scaling your business, manufacturing and supply volumes are one of the most challenging aspects of product design.
Scalability—in the context of manufacturing—refers to your ability to increase production output to meet growing demand without compromising quality or efficiency.
Scalability is a crucial aspect of any business, allowing it to adapt to market conditions, embrace new technologies, and meet increasing customer demands.
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Dreams at Play: How HonePD Brought See Me Be’s First Retail Product Range to Life
HonePD helped See Me Be with conceptual design, character development, manufacturing specifications, supplier liaison, product sampling and enhancement. We also oversaw quality control and handled logistical aspects.
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10 Reasons Why Collaboration is Best for Product Design & Development
At HonePD, collaboration is the fuel that powers innovation and drives the success of product design. With a background in billion-dollar oil and gas design projects, our founder, Anthony Peterson, intrinsically understands collaboration creates successful products.
In this article, we will explore the power of collaborative design and how it leads to innovative product design.
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Why You Need a Product Design Engineer
At HonePD, our team of product design engineers are crucial for your product design project. As product design engineers, we don’t just design the product—we support the entire product lifecycle, from the initial concept to its end-of-life, ensuring successful design, development, testing, and launch.
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Make or Break: Why User-Centred Product Design is Crucial
Product design must go beyond aesthetics. A product’s success in the market depends entirely on how much customers enjoy engaging with it. That’s why we prioritise user-centred design to achieve optimal results across all our projects and products.
In this article, we’ll define user-centred design, explain why it matters and show you how it fits into the product design process.
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10 Tips for Designing a Best-Selling Product
Everyone wants to design the perfect product that sells itself. Successful product design begins long before there is a physical product or even a prototype. It requires a high level of design, engineering and marketing expertise.
In this article, we’ll explore ten essential tips for designing a best-selling product that not only fulfils a need but also resonates with your customers.
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6 Key Characteristics of Outstanding Product Design
With AI and digitisation expected to exponentially increase productivity, 2024 is shaping up to be a big year. Customers are increasingly seeking products that not only look good but also offer convenience, sustainability, and innovation—and solve both personal and collective problems.
Analysing and understanding trends allows you to invest in quality product design, giving you a competitive edge, higher customer satisfaction and increased sales and profits. Additionally, it can help you stay relevant and capitalise on emerging opportunities.
Let’s have a look and see what’s in store for 2024!
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Prototyping: What You Need to Know
Prototyping is an evolving art, embracing new technologies and tools in the design process. It serves as the foundation of design. With 3D CAD modeling and rendering software, designers can generate lifelike representations of their creations. Product designers begin with a product idea, create sketches, 3D CAD models, and prototypes, refining their work until the product is production-ready. At the end of the day, nothing beats a physical product that can be held in your own two hands.
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Concept Design vs Detailed Design
There are two important steps in making products: coming up with the initial idea and then making sure all the small details are just right. The first step is called 'conceptual design,' and it's where we figure out if an idea can work. The second step, 'detailed design,' is when we make everything perfect for production.
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Product Ideation: A Chance to Your Next Big Hit
At hone.pd, we conduct a preliminary concept exploration to allow for feasibility costing, communication of your product concept, and exploration of unique selling propositions. Be it for your first product or your thousandth, establishing the business case for a new product development is crucial to maximising the product’s success. Accurately estimating profitability and proving that you can achieve a return on investment (ROI) is the first step commercially focused businesses take in the product design process.
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The 4 Vital Stages of Product Design
Product design involves different steps from ideation to product launch. To help you understand better, we’ll go through the 4 essential stages of product design. This way, you can be better prepared when you're creating your own products.
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hone.pd supports the World Mosquito Program (WMP)
Hone Product Design are pleased to be supporting the World Mosquito Program (WMP) as a design and supply partner providing machines and equipment to aid in their work fighting mosquito-borne diseases.
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