Lee Smith Designs offers industrial design services and product development to enable your idea to be birthed and reproduced in the production stage. We can help you from beginning to end, or drawings á la cart: such as tech packs, sketches or renderings.
Process Overview:
- Design Research :: User needs analysis, Researching similar products: competitive, functions-like, appears-like, brand identity
- Ideation :: Generating multitude of ideas to combine and choose from
- Refinement :: Distilling and reimagining ideas into a few more fully formed directions
- CMF :: Colors, materials, finishes detailing work
- Prototyping :: Tech packs, orthographic drawings for engineers and manufacturers to work with. Refining and reworking drawings as user testing is done to improve the product (often 3-10 cycles)
- Photography direction :: Working with photographer to communicate proper use for marketing materials
- Packaging :: Design options, Graphic design and application of branding.
What we need from you to get started:
- Timeline (When do you want it by?)
- Brand/Product Vision and quantifiable goal(s)
- Target market and target user
- Price point
- How will it be merchandised? (eCommerce, brick & mortar)
- Any other constraints?