Why UI/UX? Best Practices for Successful Product Development

From the smartphone in your pocket to the vehicle you drive, great products don’t just happen.

Unlock the potential of your product development process with virtual prototyping, a transformative approach that accelerates design, reduces costs, and enhances product quality. Learn how leading industries leverage advanced simulation techniques to innovate faster and minimize risks, positioning themselves for success in a competitive market.

What Is the Engineering Design Process? Learn what it takes to get from concept to prototype.

Unlock the potential of rapid prototyping to streamline your product development process, reduce costs, and enhance design quality. Learn how advanced techniques like 3D printing and CNC machining can transform your ideas into tangible prototypes, enabling faster iterations and immediate feedback.

Unlock the potential of your product development with our comprehensive guide to pre-prototyping, a crucial stage for visualizing and refining ideas before committing resources. Learn how this innovative approach can streamline your design process, mitigate risks, and enhance collaboration among stakeholders.

Turning a product idea into reality can feel overwhelming, but this blog breaks down the entire journey into easy-to-understand steps, using the story of a first-time inventor who brought an innovative contact lens case to market.

How to choose the right product design consulting firm for your product

Well-designed products make us happy.

Learn how to design military-grade products that meet rigorous MIL-SPEC standards, ensuring exceptional durability and reliability across various industries. Enhance your product's credibility and appeal by understanding the essential principles of MIL-SPEC design and its growing relevance in today's market.

Top 6 Trends in Product Design and Engineering in 2023

Unlock the secrets to designing exceptional products that resonate with users and drive business growth. Learn key principles, best practices, and the importance of cross-functional collaboration to elevate your product development strategy.

When you hear the term virtual reality prototyping, do you instantly think of gaming?

Make or Break: 7 key considerations that need to be understood before launching a new product.

Unlock the secrets of successful consumer-focused product design with our comprehensive guide, which delves into understanding the consumer mindset, essential design principles, and effective marketing strategies. Learn how to create products that not only meet customer needs but also drive your business forward.

Landed cost is an important topic in product development and ensuring you are prepared for it.

To determine the cost to develop prototypes of manufactured products, consider these questions.

What does it take to find the right engineering consultants for my product? Read to learn more.

There has been a surge of interest in solar product development in recent years, driven by the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions.

Different levels of prototyping are appropriate at different stages of development. These are the four levels of product development before reaching a final product.

Durability is one of many categories to consider when your team is developing a new product.

How to plan and effectively design a product for manufacturing.

Prototype Development Services: Streamlining Your Product Development Process

Talking about budgets — and in this case, a product development budget — can be uncomfortable.

Physical Product Design: Tips for Creating High-Quality Products

There are advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing physical / hardware product design and development to a U.S.-based company.

Discover how the Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing industrial design by enabling greater user customization and collaboration among designers and engineers. Learn about the implications of connected devices and how they empower end-users to innovate and tailor products to their specific needs.

If the terms “feature creep,” “waterfall,” and “agile methodology” are a regular part of your vernacular, it’s safe to assume your career entails lean hardware development.

True startup productivity requires systematically figuring out the right things to build.

Where does innovation happen when it comes to automation? Are integrators innovating? Or are integrators combining and optimizing existing innovations?

How to Get Your Product from Concept to Market in 9 Steps:

As a product development company, we focus on applying lean principles and working with insight.

When AERO Specialties first reached out to us in 2013, we were eager to prove our ability to provide exceptional ground support equipment design.

Industrial Design Company: Creating Innovative Products for Modern Needs

Engineers who have been around pre-CAD remember when sketching their designs on paper was a standard part of the engineering development process.

The unique considerations in firerams design projects, and the types of firearms projects SGW Designworks takes on.

When people hear the word “empathy,” many think of how it affects our interpersonal relationships, specifically how we relate to and connect with other humans.

As time goes on, more products are designed with integrated electronics to provide specific functionality or connectivity.

We delve into the essential aspects of electronic design engineering, covering everything from circuit theory and component selection to PCB design and emerging technologies like IoT and flexible electronics. By understanding these fundamentals, businesses can enhance their product development processes and stay competitive.

Design for Manufacturability: Streamlining the Production Process

August 2016 marked the second annual U.S. National Drone Racing Championships in New York City, the same year the Drone Racing League was publicly launched.

The market for connected products and IoT devices continues to grow.

Mature businesses are keenly aware of the resources and investment required when commercializing an idea.

Since its publishing in 2011, Eric Ries’s bestselling book The Lean Startup (along with its principles, like the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop) has ushered in an entrepreneurial revolution.

If you’ve been acquainted with SGW Designworks for a while, you know we are vocal champions of our clients’ successes.

If you wanted to embark on a new business venture but knew it had only a five percent chance of success, would you proceed?

Here's a list of several machine shop tools and processes that we as product developers employ.

A few months ago, several members of the SGW Designworks leadership team convened for a roundtable discussion that served as both a retrospective and a projection of where we see our company going in the months and years to come.

We’ve come a long way since our company’s inception in 2008.