Bob Christopher is the founder of Pleo, a massively successful robot dinosaur kids toy with hundreds of parts. This is one of his many products and product companies over a long and successful history in the product innovation world. He was also the director of innovation at Panasonic, and sits on a number of advisory boards at hardware accelerators. Today Bob is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can understand what it takes to design and develop complicated mechanical and/or electronic consumer products, with many development lessons he has learned along the way.Today you will hear us talk about:
Being close with your design and development team
Engineering for half full, not half empty
Define what the end experience should be
Test and refine
Prove your worth to the manufacturers
Ensure your different types of designers work together
Be willing to learn, both the founder, and the designers
Build and break your prototypes
Listen to your stakeholders, especially further down the development process before you go to market.
The journey is part of the fun
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