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Our latest news, our biggest projects, and our best resources. Everything you need to know about hiring and working efficiently with a product development partner.
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Our latest news, our biggest projects, and our best resources. Everything you need to know about hiring and working efficiently with a product development partner.
How to Construct an Effective Design Brief
"We benchmark in/out of market, gather voice of the consumer (VOC) and intelligence to form a project brief that outlines goals and problem statements. Our clients sometimes provide the project brief". This quote, from the Discover Phase of our...
Ben Fredricks Celebrates 6 Years with Our Company!
Ben Fredricks joined our family business on November 30, 2009 and it's been a wonderful journey, so far! They say that height and talent skip a generation. This is entirely the case in our family. Please note that, Ben is not standing on a soapbox in the photo above....
What is Freespace in the Product Development Process?
What is Freespace? It's the first phase in our product development process and it's where unmet needs are identified and product ideas begin to surface for future exploration and development. Freespace is a word we came up with to describe the...
The Story of Telling Our Story
Recently, we launched our revamped Fredricks Design company website. We are very proud to have collectively designed the layout, graphics, and functionality in-house with the assistance of our great IT support guru Nate Beighley from Vortex...
Jim Biros Marks 30 Years with Fredricks Design, Inc.!
Today is a big day for our firm. We are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Jim Biros (the handsome guy on the right) with Fredricks Design! I run the risk of writing too much about our relationship and I do not want to embarrass Jim. He is a...
Auto Show 2015 | A Project Case Study
Overview All of our clients struggle with the same challenges; they have limited internal design and engineering resources, too many projects and not enough time to complete them. They are also looking for fresh insights to develop new products that build...
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Cab
I read several papers each week. Every now and then, an article hits home and prompts reflections on the changing world and our product development business. The Wall Street Journal article[1] "Uber snags a ride to China with Baidu" affirms...
Bongo: A Case Study in Blue Ocean Strategy
Bongo: A Case Study in Blue Ocean Strategy We work with clients across a broad range of activities to accelerate the development of user-focused, differentiated, smart product solutions. This case study highlights the full cycle development of low-voltage...
Spontaneous Collaboration
Spontaneous Collaboration Fredricks Design has built a business on the ability to collaborate around solving product development challenges. We regularly do this using internal brainstorm sessions and structured workshops involving participants from...
A Kindergarten Mindset
Some of our best concepts sprout when we are in a kindergarten mindset. Our Clients come to us with wildly diverse challenges. Sometimes the problems are well defined and other times we are working to define the end users' needs. In either case (or...
How to Construct an Effective Design Brief
"We benchmark in/out of market, gather voice of the consumer (VOC) and intelligence to form a project brief that outlines goals and problem statements. Our clients sometimes provide the project brief". This quote, from the Discover Phase of our...
Ben Fredricks Celebrates 6 Years with Our Company!
Ben Fredricks joined our family business on November 30, 2009 and it's been a wonderful journey, so far! They say that height and talent skip a generation. This is entirely the case in our family. Please note that, Ben is not standing on a soapbox in the photo above....
What is Freespace in the Product Development Process?
What is Freespace? It's the first phase in our product development process and it's where unmet needs are identified and product ideas begin to surface for future exploration and development. Freespace is a word we came up with to describe the...
The Story of Telling Our Story
Recently, we launched our revamped Fredricks Design company website. We are very proud to have collectively designed the layout, graphics, and functionality in-house with the assistance of our great IT support guru Nate Beighley from Vortex...
Jim Biros Marks 30 Years with Fredricks Design, Inc.!
Today is a big day for our firm. We are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Jim Biros (the handsome guy on the right) with Fredricks Design! I run the risk of writing too much about our relationship and I do not want to embarrass Jim. He is a...
Auto Show 2015 | A Project Case Study
Overview All of our clients struggle with the same challenges; they have limited internal design and engineering resources, too many projects and not enough time to complete them. They are also looking for fresh insights to develop new products that build...
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Cab
I read several papers each week. Every now and then, an article hits home and prompts reflections on the changing world and our product development business. The Wall Street Journal article[1] "Uber snags a ride to China with Baidu" affirms...
Bongo: A Case Study in Blue Ocean Strategy
Bongo: A Case Study in Blue Ocean Strategy We work with clients across a broad range of activities to accelerate the development of user-focused, differentiated, smart product solutions. This case study highlights the full cycle development of low-voltage...
Spontaneous Collaboration
Spontaneous Collaboration Fredricks Design has built a business on the ability to collaborate around solving product development challenges. We regularly do this using internal brainstorm sessions and structured workshops involving participants from...
A Kindergarten Mindset
Some of our best concepts sprout when we are in a kindergarten mindset. Our Clients come to us with wildly diverse challenges. Sometimes the problems are well defined and other times we are working to define the end users' needs. In either case (or...
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Coast-to-Coast Solutions Since 1984.
Industrial Design and Engineering Studio.