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We live in an era of centralized manufacturing. The prototyping and manufacturing ecosystem is dominated by massive companies that invest a ton of capital in warehouses full of machines that can fulfill demand. When I was at Ford’s Silicon Valley Innovation Lab working to speed up development cycles, I realized there are real problems with this system. […]

Back in the 1990’s, virtual reality (VR) was a big thing. The next big thing, the media sang enthralled. Trouble was, the technology infrastructure wasn’t built out to allow any sort of appreciable user base to develop, and so VR stayed on the fringes, its tentative flames kept alive by a small contingent of diehard […]

Entrepreneurs are known for falling so hard for their own products that they can’t see past all the fancy features. Not to knock all those labors of love, but when it comes to building products that work (and brands that last), a little cool-headed distance goes a long way. Certain industries lend themselves better to […]

When you set out to prototype a new hardware product design, it might seem like there are an overwhelming number of features to test and develop. You want your product to be the best it can be, but the path to get there from a great idea isn’t always clear. While prototyping hardware is a difficult and […]

Steve Jobs once said, “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” Apple makes beautifully functional—and functionally beautiful—products that people are passionate about and cannot seem to live without. The company would famously keep all of […]

大多数硬件的初始启动只有一个机会建立用户将享有价值的产品，享受使用，并采用其生命。如果用户难以使用新设备或无法将其无缝地将其整合到她的生命中，那么它将最终在家庭“电子墓地”中，被驱逐到壁橱或地下室[...]

It’s one thing to design a product that improves the way something works, makes things fun, or helps you explore new ways of doing things. It’s quite another to change routine, daily behavior, like typing or using a keyboard. That’s the challenge Gest is taking on. Gest is, in the company’s own words, a digital […]

我们在FICTIV进行了很多关于迭代的迭代，因为它是精益硬件开发和精益硬件开发的基础是将成功的硬件产品带到市场的关键。迭代是指在您的PRD中概述的既定产品要求（产品要求文件）之前，迭代为精炼设计的循环过程。[...]

每次启动都知道加速器，但并非每一个启动都知道如何在加速器经验之间读取，以将这些组织提供的专业知识，资源和连接的那些金块转换为可行的新品牌。在本周的聚光灯中，我们分享了Peeple的故事，您的前面的智能来电者ID [...]

We’ve all heard of the digital divide. But in Silicon Valley, there’s another kind of gap—the chasm between software and hardware. Hardware developers have watched for years as their software dev friends pulled down free pieces of code from GitHub, spun off app after app from their dorm rooms and garages, and wooed millions of […]