Product Design Services
Bring your product to life with over 30 years of design expertise. From the very first sketch to scaling for manufacturing, we have the experience to make it happen. Let’s build something together.
Strategy
Prior to any design activities, LINK works with you to understand the market and your businesses ability to fullfill the wants and needs of your customer. Having consulted over 100 companies, we understand the entirety of what it takes to be successful, both from a product standpoint as well as a sustainable business. This includes evaluating your team, your company's strengths and weaknesses, your competition, and creating a complete product development roadmap for the future. We often work with companies for years as their products and market evolves, building a lasting brand together.
Design Research
Is this the right product for the right people at the right time? Only through design research, human-centered planning, and interviewing the actual target market is the product going to be appropriate and sucessful. LINK carefully performs this research, and through user testing, iterates concpt ideas until the right design is discovered.
Sustainability
By the way of careful planning and considering the product's entire life cycle, we can help you lessen the environmental impact on our planet while maximizing margins. Selecting the right materials and manufacturing processes will reduce your company's carbon footprint and offer your customers a more sustainable choice. LINK can also manage your suppliers by consciously choosing the right partners and holding them accountable to your sustainability goals.
Prototyping
'Fail often and fail early' is a good strategy for efficient product development, and without prototyping and user feedback this is impossible. With various machines and tools at our disposal we are able to create accurate and functional prototypes of the design. These prototypes can illuminate necessary design and engineering modifications and improvements before moving to full production.
Production
Sourcing the manufacturing of a product can be extremely challenging, but over the past two decades we have built relationships with multiple production vendors both international and domestic. LINK goes beyond traditional Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and designs our products with specific vendors and their capabilities in mind. We offer full production support and help with every stage in the manufacturing process.
Designed to Give
A commitment to giving is central to our core mission, a key aspect of improving accessibility, inclusion, and empowerment for all. We have structured our business model, project fees, and project selection so that we can devote a minimum of 5% of our annual FTE hours towards reduced-rate or pro-bono services. Our goal is to make product development services, and impactful products, accessible to all organizations who are doing good, even when there are financial barriers.
