Hello and welcome to part two of our guide to creating the perfect design brief. In our previous blog we addressed the questions you will need to answer earlier on in the design process….
Creating the Perfect Product Design Brief – Part 1
It’s now critical to ensure you communicate your product concept to your product design consultancy with clarity. There’s a lot to consider, so how about a checklist to ensure you are providing the best brief that you can, for best success? We thought you’d never ask.
Sourcing A Product Design Consultancy
So you’ve got a great product idea, sourced some funding to get it moving, and what to approach a product design consultancy. But now what? If you’ve never created a product before, or sometimes, even if you have, it can be pretty confusing trying to understand the right steps to take and in which order, to help you bring your vision to life.
Illuminating Ideas at Conficio
As we settle into the season of giving, our Technical Director Jon, has been working on a project of his own for his 5-year-old daughter’s birthday. This dynamic lightbox is appropriately known in the studio as the Infinity Cube, due to its illuminating and seemingly never-ending light display.
The Great British Entrepreneur Awards – A few weeks to go!
The Entrepreneurs’ Team of the Year Award arguably boasts its strongest category nominations to date. Conficio are honoured to be judged against these inspirational people. Our competition, to mention a few, includes the genius that is minicabit, founded by Dragon’s Den star Amer Hasan; ClearScore, the open banking system co-founded by author and business tycoon Justin Basini; and Speechmatics, the …
Get some perspective – The art of design sketching
For some, mastering the art of sketching can take years to perfect. Leonardo Da Vinci himself dedicated a lifetime to fine tuning and refining this art. In fact, it is rumoured that even some of Da Vinci’s most renowned works were considered incomplete by this prolific artist and engineer. Unlike Da Vinci however, we don’t all have a lifetime to …
Take a scroll – Conficio’s new website
Slicker, smoother and smarter than ever; Conficio are delighted to announce the launch of our new and improved website. May 2018 marked Conficio’s first birthday and to celebrate this occasion we decided to refresh and revamp our website, giving it the facelift it deserved. The glossy new site offers a seamless user experience, in which potential clients can easily navigate …
When Humans Take to the Skies
Being part of the machine that is project Gravity, has been an honour for the team here at Conficio. When you’re approached by a true innovator with the vision, focus and tenacity to power through and bring their vision of human flight to life, exciting things happen! We couldn’t be more proud of the work we’ve been commissioned to complete …
Star Wars – Resurrecting a Tie Bomber
A friend of the team bought some retro Star Wars toys for his Star Wars mad sons, but found that some of the space ships had small parts missing, and he really wanted to see if he could restore this particular model back to its former glory. Our team stepped in and offered to reproduce the missing parts so that …
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 …
Spring Into Tech
Unless you’ve been off grid for the last few months, you’ll have most likely heard about our Knowledge Drop sessions. Have you been able to attend a session yet? What’s it really all about? How can it help you and your team? We introduced the Knowledge Drop workshops here at Conficio earlier this year, in a bid to give our …
Building Ironman – How We Help Our Clients to Fly!
If you haven’t already heard, we’re excited to invite you to come and hear about ‘Building Ironman’. We get asked about this unique project so often that we have decided it’s only fair to host a Knowledge Drop session dedicated to the project. We’re inviting our clients, prospects, corporate partners, fans and friends to come on down to the studio …
The Internet of Things – Future Proofing Your Business
The Internet of Things, once a fairly incomprehensible ‘what if’, has now become a firm reality, that like it or not, we are already living. We are firmly connected in our own Matrix, already experiencing the addictive nature of instant accessibility, infotainment and a myriad of apps and systems designed by some genius wonder-tech’s to ensure we barely have to …
New Talent Lands at Conficio!
Career progression, science and engineering are due to hit the headlines as hot topics this fortnight. Specifically, this week celebrates National Careers Week in schools, colleges and universities up and down the country; a reminder to those looking to their future careers of what is truly possible. The event will help to educate students on how they map their route …
Rapid Prototyping – The Next Level Detail
So you’ve read our ‘Rapid Prototyping – A Beginners Guide’, and now we understand why Rapid Prototyping is important, and what the basic types of testing are. We know that we can commission a ‘looks-like’ or a ‘works-like’ prototype, and we understand what a ‘Proof-of-Concept’ model looks like and that our end goal is to achieve a production-quality prototype that …
Rapid Prototyping – A Beginners Guide
Picture the moment; your team have come up with a ground-breaking new concept product. It’s going to be the game changer. It features all the USP’s you could hope for; the concept is immense – it’ll take your business to the next level. Your MD says “Great stuff – let’s move this thing forward!” But what next? What about the …
How Businesses Are Successfully Using Rapid Prototyping
Rapid prototyping uses CAD and 3D printing to create a real life physical model of the product whilst still developing the product. This allows us to touch and feel the product and evaluate different key aspects whilst still being possible to make iterative changes to improve the design. Rapid Prototyping not only speeds up the development time of new products …
How can Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Help Grow Your Business?
As the world surrounding us becomes more connected, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are fast becoming an ingrained part of our everyday lives without many of us truly realising it; rescue charity, the RNLI allow you to view the engine room of an RNLI lifeboat with even stepping onboard the vessel using VR. Retail giant IKEA enable you …
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 …
Mixed Reality and IOT
Internet of Things or IOT is the ability for devices to be connected to each other. By being connected to everything massive amounts of useful data begins flowing in the background. The data can be analysed and trends discovered that can help users, businesses, medical professionals, governments, and many others in their strategies and tasks. To make the Internet of …
Mixed and Augmented Reality Applications
Advertising and Shopping Augmented reality has been around for a while in the advertising and shopping space. Currently there are already apps that use QR codes or other digital markers to make the tagged item come alive or give you more details. It has been common for some time to tag advertising posters, t-shirts and slogans so that anybody can …
Everyday Uses for VR
The first use of Virtual Reality was, logically, in the games industry. By using Virtual Reality, a user can feel like they are in a game and with tracked controller the user can navigate the VR world. There are many other potential applications for VR outside of the gaming industry. Health Care Psychiatrists at the University of Louisville use VR …
Virtual Reality Business Applications
Virtual Reality devices attach to the head (head mounted device or HMD) of a user and effectively puts a screen in front of the user’s eyes and using through electronic sensors, when a user turns their head in the real world, their virtual self’s head moves which creates the illusion that you are inside the virtual world. For a user …
What is the difference between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality; and how can they benefit your business?
The real world (RW) is the world that we live in and interact with. The Virtual World (VR) is at the other end of the spectrum to the RW. VR is effectively the world inside of a computer and consists of lots of data with meaning (information). Traditionally we have interacted with the Virtual World using a computer terminal where …
