Once you have identified a market opportunity, how do you go about making your product a reality and getting it onto the market? Our guides will help with some of the key steps involved in product design.

A product brief is one of the most important steps in the design project. Writing a design brief helps clearly define the goals for your product and bring everyone involved in the design, up to speed, and designing with the same requirements in mind.

A guide to applying for grant funding for product design projects through Innovate UK Competitions. Have a read through the best ways to approach these events.

When you are designing a product, you must ensure that the product has met the standards of the countries that you will be selling it in. Different marks on the product, indicate to a consumer that it meets with compliance requirements, and that it is safe.

There are different compliance rules in different parts of the world, so when a product is launched to market, it needs to be measured against the compliance requirements in each territory. Find out more about the testing your product requires here.

A prototype is an early version of a product used to test a concept which is a part of the development process. It’s a critical feature of any design process.

When it comes to electronics there are many times that you may need a prototype, but each of these have a different set of criteria and drive separate rationale.