Speed matters in modern product development. Companies cannot wait months to test an idea. They need fast validation, quick ...

How do you close the gap between I wonder and I know? You make a prototype. A prototype is a tool that gives you a chance to investigate your ideas and explore what could, should, or would come next, ...

I spend a good portion of my time meeting with companies in the EOEM (electronics-original-equipment-manufacturing) market, and most of those meetings are with semiconductor vendors due to the vast ...

How to work out a prototyping strategy that eases the transition to mass production. The advantages of using data from devices in the field to improve designs over time. How to make products more ...

Technically, an open-source ecosystem is “open” in that anyone may contribute to and draw upon the work of an entire community of developers. Interestingly, open source has come to mean that the doors ...

Ryan Gray is co-founder and CEO of SGW Designworks, a full-service product development and engineering firm featured in The Lean Startup. When developing industrial and consumer products, my team ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon Fire Phone, Google Glass, New Coke and Nintendo’s Virtual Boy: What do all these products have in common? They didn’t sell.

The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...

The prototype design pattern enables you to create new instances by copying existing instances to avoid the overhead involved in creating objects that can consume more resources Design patterns are ...