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We’re thrilled to have an article featured in the March 2012 Appliance Design magazine.

In addition to being available in the Appliance Design magazine and on their Web site, we’re distributing it here to help you sort through the maze of battery options. We hope the battery chart and application information helps you make a powerful choice that will set your product apart from the competition.

Truth be told, the article just scratches the surface – we have so much more we’d like to share. So please feel free to post a comment or question if you’d like more information tailored to your specific design challenge. Or even if you just want to talk batteries. Let’s face it: alkaline, nickel-cadmium, lithium iron phosphate. We can’t get enough of this stuff.

Read The Dō and Jutsu of Strategic Ethnography

Read and Download Powerful Choices: Selecting the Right Battery for Product Applications

Didn’t attend this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES)? Attended but too overwhelmed by the crowd to focus? ipad lost its power and you couldn’t take notes or photos? Not to worry! Chris Harris, industrial designer at Design Concepts, was there! He’ll take you through the show and point out all the biggest trends and latest ideas in the attached pdf.

It’s CES with Chris! Enjoy!

We’re delighted to have our most-recent white paper on Canon Communication’s QMED Web site. Putting Customers at the Center of Innovation: A prescription for successful medical device design is now available for you to download free of charge.

The paper helps readers identify the many customers (or users) who have a valuable perspective to share in the design of medical devices. From there, author of the paper and Design Concepts’ director of strategy & research Stefanie Norvaisas, introduces the reader to concrete product development efforts that demonstrate the value of customer-centered design.

Download the white paper Putting Customers at the Center of Innovation

Design Concepts’ principals Stefanie Norvaisas, director of strategy & research, and Ami Verhalen, director of industrial design, lead a PDMA webinar series to introduce design thinking – an approach to innovation that is changing business as usual.

Lucas McCann, Design Concepts’ senior design strategist, was selected to present the paper “The Dō and Jutsu of Strategic Ethnography: Balancing the Way and the Art of Understanding,” at the 2010 Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC), Tokyo, Japan, September 1, 2010.