Every week the Product Design Show digs into the engineering and design behind well-known products. Vince and Allison deliver a fast-paced and entertaining show that features their unique combination of story-telling and humor.
Latest episodes
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Biomimicry. When Nature Inspires Design
Vince and Allison report on important examples of biology in design, from birds in flight to a new car whose shape was inspired by a box fish.
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The Future of Factory Automation
Since the 1970 factories have become ever more automated. In this episode Allison and Vince look at current trends in factory automation and show how networked facilities are chang…
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Materials Control in Complex Products
Complex supply chains can lead to unwanted or prohibited materials in your product. In this episode, Vince and Allison review how product design teams can meet regulatory and compa…
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Designing for Emission Control
2025 CAFE standards are forcing auto designers to upgrade existing technology. The internal combustion engine can become a lot more efficient, but it will take a lot of intensely c…
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Chair Ergonomics Presents a Design Challenge
People don’t always sit up straight, especially when using portable electronics. New designs show smart engineering.
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Revolutionary Office Chair Design
Designers at Steelcase surveyed thousands of users on how they sit when using new devices like smartphones and tablets at the office. They found that common office chairs don’t sup…
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Designing Motorcycles for Endurance and Performance
The Dakar off-road motorcycle race has daily sections of up to 550 miles. The design team at KTM has produced winning bikes for the last 12 Dakars. In this episode, Vince and Allis…
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Electronics in Mechanical Product Design
Embedding electronics demands new processes and technology for product design.
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Designing Products that are Easy to Assemble
Vince and Allison speak with designers at toy company, k'nex, and learn a few things about designing products that will be assembled in the field.
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Complying with Sustainable Design Requirements
How do designers meet regulatory requirements and consumer preferences for sustainable design? Vince and Allison delve into design practices that comply with standards like RoHS an…
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Product Design for Emerging Markets
Emerging markets represent the biggest sales opportunities for western brands. But what’s a designer to do when competitors release a $65 smartphone tailored to the needs of those…
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Multi-CAD Environments are the New Normal for Design
Why do different CAD systems cause a problem for designers? It comes down to the feature definitions in the various packages. Newer software does a better job of geometric translat…
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Retrieving Design Intent for Old Models
Vince and Allison discuss how to retrieve the design intent from a CAD model even though the original designers no longer work at the company. This episode shows how to edit CAD mo…
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Modifying a design from another CAD system
Vince and Allison show how a supplier can use direct modeling to modify a design from a customer that’s in a different CAD format.
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The Whats and Whys of Direct Modeling
Vince and Allison explain direct modeling and compare it to parametric modeling, using lots of examples.
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Late Stage Design Changes
Allison and Vince overview the concept of Flexible Modeling, a combination of parametric and direct modeling environments. Vince uses direct modeling to accommodate Allison’s late…
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Parametric Modeling - Pros and Cons
In this episode Allison and Vince review the reasons why parametric modeling provides such a powerful CAD environment, but recognize that it's not necessarily the best solution in…
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Modernizing Product Concept Design
In this episode Allison and Vince show you how CAD systems have advanced to bring the most important part of your business, Concept Design, into the 21st century.
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Top Down and Bottom Up Design
In this episode, Vince and Allison talk about when top down design is the right way to go and the value that design teams can get from a bottom up approach.
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Integrative Thinking and Experimentalism in Design Thinking
In this episode of the Product Design Show, Vince and Allison explore the last two components of design thinking, integrative thinking and experimentalism, and explain why those tw…