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Working well with designers is central to creating a good product and measuring its success. However, when I founded a start-up 18 months ago, I had never hired a designer or worked with a design ...

Most businesses struggle with innovation, not because they lack ideas, but because they lack a clear and effective process. Great ideas don’t emerge in a vacuum. They require structure, iteration, and ...

Amid the churn of the pandemic and change on multiple fronts, consumer goods manufacturers now face historic pressures to contain costs, navigate ongoing uncertainty in both supply and demand, and ...

What is Product Design at Drexel University? Product design, also called industrial design, is a creative discipline concerned with the theory and design of physical products intended for manufacture ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Successful entrepreneurs are strategic, and know that it is one thing to conceive an idea, quite another to bring it to the market. In a ...

Gain Real-World Experience: Required cooperative education means hands-on, full-time paid work experience in the industry. Choice of Dynamic Courses: Advanced course work and elective courses focus on ...

Insurance product designers who want to help fight COVID-19 should consider what they can do quickly, and what they can do with a product that might take more time to develop. Taylor McKinnon and ...

When I took an art class on a lark in college, I discovered how much I loved being creative. Bringing my ideas to life didn’t feel like work — far from it. The experience was downright magical. If I ...