As society continues to evolve, consumers are bombarded with new products and information; it is important that your product stands out from the crowd offering a specific Unique Selling Point (USP) and being recognisable as part of your brand. Therefore, concept generation is a key factor in the design engineering process, helping to explore creative ideas that meet user needs …
The Difference Between Industrial Design and Product Design
Click to learn more about the difference between industrial design and product design and the advantages and disadvantages in this article from Conficio.
How to Design a Wearable Technology Product
Many elements bring together the perfect wearable product design brief. Understanding how each of these works together will save you from the headache of having to make drastic (and costly) changes further down the line. Below we will detail a multitude of considerations for your wearable design, all of which contribute to a successful wearable product. What is considered a …
Why Product Prototyping Is Critically Important for Your New Product Development
Product prototyping is the simplest yet most effective way to communicate the essential information about your new product idea, allowing you to demonstrate the use and value of your prospect, refine design decisions and overcome unforeseen challenges. Product prototyping is much more than just the aesthetics of your product, allowing you to explore many elements of your entire approach, design, …
Stand-Out Sustainable Design
As Plastic Free July descends upon us, we thought we’d do a quick look back through some awesome sustainable products we’ve come across in recent times. Here are a few of our favourites.
Innovate Like a Child
When sitting with my gorgeous little cherubs during lockdown, I was reminded of the state of the child like brain, and how limitless the possibilities are in a child’s world. My 4-year-old approached me to play with his ‘camera’, which was in fact created out of Duplo, of course. Furthermore, he went on to play with it as if it were a Polaroid camera, handing the prints to me straight from the camera as he was ‘taking’ them. This wouldn’t be out of the ordinary, except, we do not own a Polaroid camera, and he has never, to the best of my knowledge, been shown one in a real or virtual setting.
The Great Working from Home Experiment
This is a time to observe how the world adapts to the changing demands of the environment we find ourselves in and understand how our behaviours adapt in terms of purchasing, adoption and utilisation of goods and products. Just how are businesses big and small dealing with diversification, evolving product lines, business processes or even course correction?Is your team working from home out of necessity or choice? At Conficio we enabled the team to work remotely from the get-go, because, let’s face it, this is the future. Or indeed, the present! With a world pandemic and many countries going into lockdown, many businesses are struggling because they don’t have the capacity or means to adapt quickly enough; the world of technical capability can’t save us all, as it turns out.
Diversification – The New Business as Usual
This is a time to observe how the world adapts to the changing demands of the environment we find ourselves in and understand how our behaviours adapt in terms of purchasing, adoption and utilisation of goods and products. Just how are businesses big and small dealing with diversification, evolving product lines, business processes or even course correction?
10 Unique Corona Crisis Concepts
Everything that surrounds us has either evolved by force of nature or has been invented. Innovation, and consequently, product design is part of our everyday life. It will make your mind implode if you stop to consider it too much. Quite frankly, If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that innovation actually is, all around…
Product Design, Pandemics & Politics
Everything that surrounds us has either evolved by force of nature or has been invented. Innovation, and consequently, product design is part of our everyday life. It will make your mind implode if you stop to consider it too much. Quite frankly, If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that innovation actually is, all around…
We’re Bringing British Back – Yeah baby!
As we arrive in the topical and highly contentious month, that is to be Brexit, we’re talking about the brilliance of British industry and the reasons we’re seeing clients bringing their product design and manufacturing back to the UK and it’s not because of Brexit! According to great.gov.uk, the UK stands as the worlds 5th largest economy, with British businesses …
Conficio Make Finalist at Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards
We are proud to announce that Conficio have been selected as finalists for the ‘Entrepreneurs’ Team of the Year Award’, at the prestigious Natwest Great British Entrepreneur Awards, London, 2018. But what makes a team and why do we think we should win? The team at Confico have done a sterling job of establishing a business, which to date, achieves …
How is your data being used?
Often we do not give our data security a second thought. Data sharing in apps can be enabled by default to add to big data sources, these can be incredibly helpful in applications such as satnavs. However, there is often an overlooked side to this. The type of data and it’s end use can be critical and must be considered …
Innovation in the Work Place
In the modern world with rapidly changing technology and stiff competition companies are more and more relying on their innovation to stay ahead of the competition. This poses a big question for them, what is Innovation and how can they be more innovative? Through this blog I will explore this and possible methods to improve innovation. What is Innovation? Innovation …