Industrial Design is the professional practice of designing products used by millions of people

around the world every day. Industrial designers not only focus on the appearance of a product,
but also on how it functions, is manufactured and ultimately the value and experience it provides
for users. Every product you have in your home and interact with is the result of a design
process and thousands of decisions aimed at improving your life through design

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Industrial designers take a useful product that serves a need and

makes it even more useful or more beautiful. They are the ones
who make new models of a car or improve the ergonomics of a
chair or computer keyboard. They keep all our modern
conveniences fresh and new, making them even more convenient
as time goes on.
roduct design encompasses everything that is a product, including
those things covered by industrial design. While it helps for an
industrial designer to be an engineer in their field, there’s no such
requirement for, say, a clothing designer or someone who develops
food products or flatware. Today, product designers are also
involved in the creation of products that have no tangible output,
namely digital products like software.
Product designers generally work to produce many of the daily
products we use every day, but those specialized items like cars,
computers, and many of the appliances we enjoy, often had the
hand of an industrial designer in there, at least for part of the
process.
Honestly, the distinctions don’t make a lot of difference, because
both types of design have the same goal — to create or refine a
product. The words used: ‘product’, ‘industrial’, and ‘design’, are
all such broad terms in and of themselves, that pinning them to
easy definitions is difficult, to say the least.
Product design is just about as it sounds — design of a product
meant to be sold to consumers, whatever that product might be.
It’s how we get new things or new versions of things we already
use. Industrial design is the exact same thing, but it more pertains
to things that have a functional value, especially things that
require industrialization to produce, such as vehicles, buildings,
and so forth. Items developed through industrial design are not
necessarily designed for the sole benefit of the user — their design
goals may make things easier for the manufacturer, as well.

Industrial design and Product design, using one term instead of

the other certainly leads to confusion for some. The field of
product design and industrial design do overlap and sometimes
the distinction between the two isn’t so clear. But I hope this
article has cleared conf

THE 3 KEY ELEMEN TS O F PRODU CT DESIG N A RE :

1. The Functional Use of the Product
2. The Outward Appearance Design
3. The Quality Delivered to Your Customers

1.) THE FUNCTIONAL USE O F TH E PRO DU CT

Before you can start thinking about how your product should look, you need to think about
how it works and what it does for your buyer. The definition of the word Functional,
is “designed to be practical and useful, rather than attractive.” (Source - Google's
definition results box)

Think about how useful your product would be to your customer and put yourself in their
shoes. Does it solve a pain point for them? What feature can you incorporate into the design
of the product that will really “wow” them?

A great product is incredibly useful, incorporates great functionality, and usually solves a
problem for your buyer.

2.) THE OU TW ARD APPE ARA NCE DESIGN

The outward design and look of your product is the surface design. Dependi ng on what the
product is, the design can be minimal or detailed; it can apply to just a small area of the
surface of the product; or it can cover the entire product with a pattern design or artwork.

3.) THE QU ALI TY DELI V ERED TO Y OUR CUSTOM ERS

Quality is probably the most important thing to get right in today’s marketplace. Care must
be taken in developing a very high quality product. I spend months developing a new
product and focus on creating highly valuable artwork and solutions for my clients first.

The quality of the product delivered to your customers is just one part of what I mean when
talking about quality. What I look for when I am buying a product is not just the quality of
the product itself, but the quality of the company, as well. A company s hould serve its
employees and its customers in a mutually beneficial way.

Today’s buyer values quality companies that care. Buying from a quality company is
important to me, and I try to use companies and services that put their customers and em
ndustrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through
techniques of mass production.[2][3] Its key characteristic is that design is separated from
manufacture: the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features takes place
in advance of the physical act of making a product, which consists purely of repeated, often
automated, replication.[4][5] This distinguishes industrial design from craft-based design, where the
form of the product is determined by the product's creator at the time of its creation.[6]
All manufactured products are the result of a design process, but the nature of this process can take
many forms: it can be conducted by an individual or a large team; it can emphasize
intuitive creativity or calculated scientific decision-making, and often emphasizes both at the same
time; and it can be influenced by factors as varied as materials, production processes, business
strategy, and prevailing social, commercial, or aesthetic attitudes.[4] The role of an industrial designer
is to create and execute design solutions for problems of form, function, usability, physical
ergonomics, marketing, brand development, sustainability, and sales.[7]
e, urbanisation changed patterns of consumption, the growth of empires broadened tastes and
diversified markets, and the emergence of a wider middle class created demand for fashionable
styles from a much larger and more heterogeneous population.[13]

Product design and industrial design overlap in the fields of user interface design, information
design, and interaction design. Various schools of industrial design specialize in one of these
aspects, ranging from pure art colleges and design schools (product styling), to mixed programs of
engineering and design, to related disciplines such as exhibit design and interior design, to schools
that almost completely subordinated aesthetic design to concerns of usage and ergonomics, the so-
called functionalist school.[17] Except for certain functional areas of overlap between industrial design
and engineering design, educational programs in the U.S. for engineering design require
accreditation by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)[18] in contrast to
programs for industrial design which are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and
Design (NASAD)

Coke Contour Bottle

Instantly recognisable, the Coca-Cola contour bottle is a masterpiece in industrial design

that dates back to 1915 when the Coca-Cola Company asked its bottle suppliers to design a
new bottle that would be distinctive and instantly recognisable - even in the dark. Designer Earl
R. Dean took up the challenge, and following instructions issued by his boss, aimed to come up
with a design based on the ingredients of the drink. Unable to find any reference images for
either the coca leaf, or the Kola nut, Dean instead used an image of a cocoa pod from his
encyclopedia as inspiration, leading to the iconic ribbed bottle shape we know and love today.

Serbian designer Damjan Stanković has put fresh

twists on everything from a tea infuser to a spaghetti
fork, but this quirky take on a drinking glass is
particularly inspired. When empty, it's covered in a
seemingly random mosaic, but when filled with
coloured liquid (milk, orange juice or cola, for
instance) the squares join up to spell the name of the
drink. Cipher drinking glass

Three indisputably game-changing product lines by arguably the world's most iconic and
celebrated industrial designer, Sir Jonathan Ive - all of which could easily have made the list on
their own. It all started back in 2001 with the original iPod; the first iPhone was released in 2007;
the iPad followed three years later; and finally the iPad Mini in 2012. Three indisputably game-
changing product lines by arguably the world's most iconic and celebrated industrial designer,
Sir Jonathan Ive - all of which could easily have made the list on their own. It all started back in
2001 with the original iPod; the first iPhone was released in 2007; the iPad followed three years
later; and finally the iPad Mini in 2012.

Stabilo Boss Highlighter

You’d be lying if you said you haven’t owned this highlighter at least once in your life. And
the reason is as simple as the pen itself: it’s just handy, with a unique design that doubles
as an ergonomic miracle for highlighting. Simplicity at its finest.