Innovation - Students of Product Design Episode1

This series 'Students of Product Design' is aimed at anyone interested in the product design process. This first episode looks at innovation, how to innovate and how simply changing the structure of the brief can impact on how innovative you can be.

This series won't just talk about stuff, the plan is to share with you as many of the things I have learnt in the last 15 years (or so..) as possible through each stage of the design process to help you become far better designers than I can ever be. I'll be looking at research, sketching, model making, portfolios and a whole load of other things.

I often think of youtube as a speed learning tool. Have you ever seen the Matrix films where Neo first learns martial arts by uploading a programme to his head or Trinity learns to fly a helicopter in minutes, that's how I see Youtube, Youtube is our version of the Matrix. So this series which is primarily aimed at students studying industrial design, product design or design engineering in university is designed to do just that, give you a knowledge boost to hopefully make your projects, designs, presentations and portfolio a lot better to improve your chances of getting a position as a designer, or your projects if you want to start your own company, anything related to design. I also hope with the content, that everyone will be able to take something away from it as many of the tips I'll give over the course of this series will be applicable to lots of areas of life.

There's just isn't enough out there on product design, compared to say cookery shows it's very under provisioned and so I'm trying to redress the balance. I have a lot more planned, so please be patient, stay tuned and follow me, so that you can be alerted to when the next video is launched.

[producttank]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments, I'm working on video number 2 now, but I'm having loads of Internet problems, which has prevented me from replying sooner. I wish I could make these things faster too! 😀PT

[jdmc]

You deserve a MEDAL - How amazing are you- THANK YOU SO MUCH - you have explained in 12 minutes what my engineering lectures couldn't mumble away in over an hour.

[TushantMirchandani]

I'm not even a designer, and I love this so much! Big respect. :)

[mo.designs]

Thank you ! I am a mechanical engineer with passion and some trials/designs in the ID/PD direction and I really appreciate this series to explore more the process to perfect my understanding. Thank you and keep'em coming :)

[RobWinterTeacher]

Amazing work. Why are the UK exam boards not pointing D&T teachers to great resources like this. AQA I'm talking to you in particular!
You've summed up everything I'm trying to teach my current year 12/13 cohort about the design process in a well presented and clear fashion with great examples & case studies.
Amazing work chap, keep adding them!

[VijayKumar-hpxs]

When I started product design I was not too interested in your videos because I was beginner . But now after 2 years when I watched you r videos after being professional designer I really liked your video and content .

[dyacharya]

By far the sanest description of ID design process I have ever seen. Really appreciate it.

[coolstream]

As a current industrial design student... this video, and the series as a whole, has been more informative and better organized than my entire first year of school.

[leeyiling]

I am an industrial design student and learn so much from your videos....Thank you so much !

[Alkis]

one thing you didn't consider in the peeler is easiness of cleaning. Narrow concave shapes makes more difficult to cleaning while convex makes it easier.

[DallasGreen]

The method you are describing has been a big topic in the last years, everyone called it "design thinking" and tried to apply it in all kinds of fields.

By the way, thank you for sharing your experience, I am a 2nd year design student and sometimes feeling a bit lost with all the possibilities and no real "guidelines" (I study design at an art school), I'm looking forward to seeing more videos! Good channels on product design are rare on YouTube.

[niharikachuri]

I am a student from India currently giving a exam called uceed were in we have such problem solving questions for product design. Thank you so much for this series and I really appreciate the efforts. Keep going

[dimaisttoll]

last year i made it into design school and i really want to thank you, because your videos were such a great inspiration and gave me so much insight into design thinking. You helped me getting to this point, thank you very much and keep up your great work!

[goodtimesboomertimes]

Excellent tutorial. I use it with my secondary design students.

[yordantodorov]

I wish I watched those videos while I was still student. Great information and very accurate explanation

[Ricardo-nshl]

Wow.... World definitely needs more like you and less kardashians... awesome video

[Jo-hrui]

That's really a good video about Product Design. As a matter of fact, I got to learn from something like about innovation and how a simple brief can change the whole concept of design, from basic to unique.

[KaizenDT]

I am a Design and Technology teacher, and find this video very meaningful.
Suscribed. Keep it up.

[TitusLivy]

Very interesting!  I'm looking forward to your future videos.

[speedsketch]

Nothing to say except that this video is a banger! Obviously you have put a lot of work into this, and the fact that you investigated a case study of peelers even though you knew it probably wasnt going to work out is amazing. This is the only video I have seen of yours but boy am I going to watch more! Keep it up man!