Product Design Tips
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This document discusses the importance of asking questions during the product development process. It provides examples of technical, practical, and financial questions to consider. For remote control development specifically, it suggests questions about human factors like finger size, living room size, television location, remote control usage behaviors, and how the remote makes people feel. The document emphasizes the importance of keeping human factors in mind when making product development decisions to benefit both businesses and customers.
Product Design Tips
- 2. Questions to Ask ? ? Technical ? ex: Is this battery big enough to power the device? ? Practical ? ex: Does this wallet fit in a pocket? ? Financial ? ex: Is our profit margin big enough for this to be worthwhile?
- 3. Important Questions ? ? Who is the user? ? What do we know about the users?
- 4. Ex: Developing a Remote Control ? ? How big are human fingers? ? Where do people have their televisions? ? How big are the rooms which house their televisions? ? Why do people use remote controls? ? Does holding a remote control affect mood? ? Are there different styles of remote control use?
- 5. More questions: ? What if living rooms are getting bigger? Do we need bigger-buttoned remotes with longer ranges? Do people who watch television tend to be depressed so holding a remote makes them feel powerful? Should the remote be in bright colors instead of black?
- 6. Keep human factors in mind. ? As a product developer, it is important to make decisions that benefit both you and your customers.
- 7. ? Mark Richards is a product developer. He loves turning ideas into products or services. He has started over 12 businesses and considers himself a serial entrepreneur. You can read more from him on one of his many websites: Richardsgroup.com http://MarkRichardsCharleston.org