From the course: Industrial Design Foundations
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Going beyond the basics
- So we've just slightly scratched the surface of an industrial designer and some of the skill sets and some of the things that you might expect from a designer. But what happens beyond form and function? We normally see the designer very heavily involved in the front end activities, from concept and the design development, but the designers also stick around in the back end, as well. The way I see it is there are more time spent up front, but there's still a tapering process as it goes all the way to manufacturing, they're still involved all the way to the back end. So, what does happen after form and function? Well, there's going to be a lot of prototyping involved, and there's going to be a lot of manufacturing involved. So, in the prototyping side, what I'd like to focus on mostly is there's going to be iterative prototyping that you'll do that's on the front end, which is just proving out your ideas, and then on the back end, you're going to start doing things that are going to…
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