If your organization makes medical devices, you are necessarily familiar with designing prototype units for new products or revisions. These early models help you to work out critical details, from ...

A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices using a series of reconfigurable electromechanical ...

The most difficult part of application development is how to determine a customer's actual needs and wants. Development teams can carefully lay out software requirements, down to fine details. But ...

As the software content in today's 2.5G and 3G phones rapidly increases, timely software development is becoming critical for product success. The traditional development flow—in which software design ...

It's no secret that software design is difficult to get right from the first try, which is why software development often starts with a prototype. Unfortunately, prototypes don't always serve their ...

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An infinite number of inventions is waiting to happen. It’s often hard to figure out why one idea succeeds and another falls by the wayside. Many factors can impact success, ranging from the quality ...

In previous articles I have talked about prototyping in general “Prototypes: What is a prototype?” and some of the consideration when deciding if a prototype would be beneficial, and then deciding on ...