Exemplified by Apple, and the success of their elegant products, design-thinking is proving to be more and more the competitive edge for entrepreneurs.
Look at the manufacturability of the products they design.
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With corn products, sweeteners and specialty starches together, we could go to food companies and help design products that the young consumers like.
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As with audio excellence, comfort and design are synonymous with Jabra products and that unmistakably under-stated, yet stylish Scandinavian design is reflected across this new suite of products.
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Its 400 or so engineers help clients design products that can be made and tested cheaply.
But generally speaking we grow the company organically through the products that we design and develop ourselves.
We're thinking about how we can design products to cater to specific needs.
The new venture will include a Web site offering design products and educational features such as lectures and concerts.
Clients use Rapaille's revelations--delivered orally, never in writing--to design products, packaging and advertising.
Edifier is a leading designer and manufacturer of internationally award-winning audio speaker products featuring contemporary design and superior sound quality.
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They decided they did not have the engineering talent to both design products for others and for their own products.
He is proud that they are doing heavy lifting on the environment, that they design products with the environment in mind.
More pointedly, the court maintained that an importer had the right to design products specifically to get a lower duty rate.
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Just one year old now, Fab has grown quickly as a site focused on quirky design products at a variety of price points.
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Even so, China must complement its ability to provide large, cheap pools of labor by strengthening its ability to design products that compete in global markets.
Companies will begin to leverage this fire hose of data to design products that will better match customer needs which will provide an exponentially more valuable customer experience.
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Adobe Systems maintains a dominant position in the creative software market, with its leading photo editing, publishing and web design products like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash Professional and InDesign.
The DTI has pledged to carry out further research to ensure companies are given information to help them to design products that can be used by disabled people.
As we say, the patients are the real experts -- we just need to create the opportunities to capture their insight and design products that truly address their needs.
Fab, which sells all manner of quirky design products for the home, has two warehouses in New Jersey, both of which are without power and not operating now.
This means that in order to reach the mass consumers in inland areas, companies need to diversify their product portfolios and design products with fewer fancy features but stronger basic functions.
As I wrote in a recent profile, Fab has taken off as a quirky site for design products that provides a curated selection across a range of categories, from furniture to T-shirts.
"Our newest generation of Gobi modem chipsets will allow mobile device OEMs to design products that can operate on nearly any mobile broadband network worldwide, " said Cristiano Amon, senior vice president of product management, Qualcomm.
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Do any Apple products incorporate this design?
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Keynote scores for the ease of its drag-and-drop assembly and its context-sensitive Inspector tool, which will be familiar to users of design products from Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) for controlling the attributes of each element.
An unfavorable ruling could include monetary damages or an injunction prohibiting Intel from manufacturing or selling one or more products, precluding particular business practices, impacting Intel's ability to design its products, or requiring other remedies such as compulsory licensing of intellectual property.
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First of all, electronics OEMs such as Apple and others exert significant influence not only over who manufactures their products, but the actual design and the components used in their products.
Right now the tool is geared toward assessing the sustainability of existing products, but plans are in the works to roll out a tool that could be integrated into design and manufacturing processes early on to help gauge the potential impacts of various decisions and enable companies to design more sustainable products.
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We also use desktop sharing tools to demo software products or go over design changes.
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