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Industrial Design
Benchmark is committed to providing the highest quality, lowest cost
manufacturing solution for your product.
Industrial Design and Human Factors Overview
Good Industrial Design communicates added value …
Good Human Factors allows the End User to experience the added value.
As a world leader in Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS), Benchmark provides
innovative Industrial Design & Human Factors capabilities.
These integrated services leverage emerging technologies into successful product
solutions for our valued customers.
The Industrial Design Team specializes in electronics devices
and systems for the industrial and medical market, including professional consoles,
portables, handhelds, wearables and even large equipment.
The Benchmark Electronics global Industrial Design Team has a proven ability to
provide exceptional creative skills in a fully integrated environment. Having all
disciplines “under one roof” promotes the best possible product solutions — cost
effective, highly usable and marketable products — with seamless transition through
NPI (New Product Introduction) to manufacturing.
Added Value
- Cross-functional award-winning design team
- User centered design approach
- Integrated in complete product development
- Early involvement of design for assembly and testing
Industrial Design and Human Factors Services
Design Concept Development:
- Trend Analysis, Opportunity Road Mapping
- Requirement Definition Consultancy
- Product Concept Creation and Visualization
- Freeform Surface Modeling
- Accessory design / Packaging design / User documentation
- Prototyping Interaction, Ergonomic, and Cosmetic Mockup and Simulations
Human Factors & Interaction Design:
- Contextual, User and Task Analyseis
- New Product Scenario Creation
- Ergonomics Study
- Interaction and User Interface Design
Brand Image Design:
- Mood Boards, Color Study
- Brand Language Creation, Design Standards
Design Approach
We can support our customers in their new business development with user observations,
brainstorming, technological feasibility studies, and creative concept generation, using
a variety of prototyping and simulation methodologies. Our
interaction designers will work together with your marketing team, functioning as End User
Advocates. Within this team, the “design DNA” of your product will be created.
- Finding out what the end user wants, and visualizing this in user scenarios, serves as a
reference for fast design decisions and reduced time to market.
Concepts and simulations are tested with the end user and the environments to verify what works
and what needs adjusting. We verify all possible technological combinations to address
the required product characteristics.
Quick Start: Creative Workshop
It is our experience that creative workshops with a cross functional team boost the start of a
project and focuses the team in the right direction.
We have several formats that we customize to fit your needs, ranging from 2
days to 2 weeks. During this session we balance user value, cost and schedule to the right
proportions.
Design Tools and Network
- Design Tools
- Autodesk SketchbookPro
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Solid Works
- Rhinos Ceros
- Flash
- Director
- Visual Basic
- In Design
- Prototyping workshop for:
- Usability mockups
- Volume studies
- Shape studies
- External Network for:
- Access to a various cosmetic and functional prototype technologies
- Textile prototypes for wearability accessories
- Usability Testing
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