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Developing a new product is a complex journey often filled with unforeseen challenges. From initial concept to final production, you may encounter obstacles like design complexities, supply chain issues, and scope creep. At CLI Systems, we've navigated these challenges countless times. We've curated a collection of insightful video clips, highlighting common pitfalls and offering practical solutions. This experience, which we include in our own practices, empowers us to anticipate and overcome these challenges, ensuring a smooth and efficient product development process.
Estimating Product Development Cost
One of the most common questions we encounter from clients is, "How much will developing this cost?" While we understand the desire for upfront cost certainty, it's important to note that accurate cost estimation can be challenging in the early stages of product development.
These video clips from D2M product design company in the UK explore the cost of a few different products, and gives an example of some real world product devleopment costs:
Electrical Thermostat Product
Non-electrical Product
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP9EbgHh-RI
A full video on development costs by product designer Jon Teel
The initial design of a product is rarely perfect. It's a starting point, a foundation upon which we iterate and refine. Through rigorous testing, feedback, and analysis, we continuously improve the design, ensuring it meets the exact specifications. Here is a clip from product designer Jon Teel on this topic:
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxtdV_6XW6A
Unknowns and Complexity Add Time
What adds time to product development? Unknowns and Complexity. Product designer Jon Teel discusses these topics in the next clip. The biggest takeaways from this are "If you knew the problems that are going exist...then you would never design them in" and that "The more complicated the design, the more likely there will be problems".
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxtdV_6XW6A
Appearance Affects Design Time
Yes, appearance affects design time, more specifically high specification appearance affects design time. If you want a product to look like an Apple product, you will need to spend Apple levels of money and time to achieve that. This is because the number of iterations will likely increase:
Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxtdV_6XW6A