Often, to grow your business it is better to create more products for your customers instead of trying to find more customers for your products.
Youth + Experience
Ruminating on Bad Design: Episode 1
New Hire: Slava Orlov
How many users is enough when testing a new product?
According to Nielsen Norman Group, five users is the sweet spot for testing the usability of your product. You can learn 80% of what you need to know about how people will respond to your product from just five users, allowing you to quickly receive feedback and iterate before putting your improved design in front of five new users.
Onshape Repost: Lessons from Epic Product Design Failures
What can Fyre Festival teach us about DFMA?
Client Spotlight: DropLock
ACEO 3D – Printing In Silicone
Partner Spotlight: Spectrum Metal Services
Several years ago SPARK had the opportunity to work with ADI Engineering (now Silicom Ltd.) on a project for Intel. The success of that project has led to an ongoing partnership between between SPARK and Silicom. However, that partnership may have never been possible if not for our strong relationship with Jason Jenkins and Spectrum Metal Services in Midlothian, VA.
Partner Spotlight: Applied Rapid Technologies
SPARK Product Spotlight: The Baby Change-N-Go
Your Prototypes: Proof of Concept vs Beauty Model
So, you're in inventor- an entrepreneur- and you have a hardware based product idea. Nice! You think it through and decide it's time to push yourself ahead of the crowd. You do your due diligence to select a product development firm, forming a relationship and setting up a contract. In the plans are up front prototyping and revised/educated design to follow.
3D Print Quick Tip: FDM & Threaded Inserts
When designing screw bosses for plastic injection molding, certain parameters must be taken into account such as wall thickness, coring, draft, etc. When prototyping with 3D printing, especially with FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling), these bosses can become finicky and delicate features to work with.