Tips for Finding, Choosing, and Working With A Design Firm
07/10/2019Thinking about hiring a design firm for new product development? Over the years, we’ve worked with a lot of clients in the process of finding, choosing, and working with a design firm. Recently one of those clients, the DuPont Silicon Valley Innovation Center, invited 219 Design to share our experience with Stanford Me2We LEAD participants….
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We Are Fifteen!
06/20/2019Fifteen years ago, five passionate engineers started a company that embodied everything they felt the best product engineering firm required – all the engineering disciplines needed to develop new products in-house, people who love to learn and practice their craft, and a place where those people could thrive. Since then, we have achieved those…
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Virtual Reality as User Experience Evaluation Tool
06/03/2019As product designers, we look for methods to get user feedback fast and often on our prototypes. Rapid iteration keeps designs grounded and irons away pitfalls before they are baked into the design. Virtual Reality can be a fast and inexpensive way to get user input, speeding up prototyping iterations and improving the product design…
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VR Character Recognition Demo
05/02/2019You’ve probably heard the buzz about Virtual Reality and Deep Neural Networks. In this post, I’ll demonstrate one way the virtual user experience can be improved by an application that recognizes the letters of the alphabet written in the air using a Deep Neural Network. Tracking the positioning and orientation of the user’s head and…
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Top 5 Ways To Overcome Innovation Challenges
04/02/2019One of this year’s hosts for the Stanford LEAD program’s Me2We event was the DuPont Silicon Valley Innovation Center – home to four labs designed to enable real-time collaboration, prototyping, testing, and iterative design. Having collaborated closely with the Innovation Center on exciting and innovative projects, 219 Design was invited to lead an interactive workshop…
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