A core team of engineers, industrial and UX designers collaborates with project-specific specialists in core disciplines to meet the unique needs of individual projects. A user-centric focus ensures that the entire use case is considered throughout development, including risk management and Design for X (DfX – manufacture, assembly, maintenance, service, end of life, etc.). Development of study models and prototypes is encouraged early and often, including user evaluations in the BH usability test suites. Iterative testing informs the balance between ease of use and use-safety and ensures the design direction remains relevant and optimized.
BH advocates conceptual systems engineering during the planning and conceptual design phases to enhance the design vision and overall project mission. Early involvement enables the engineering team to map out appropriately feasible system architectures that ensure the evolving industrial design is robust and realistic. Options and trade-offs are established up-front to optimize relevant design objectives and then thoroughly scrutinized via a user-preference study to quantify the cost vs. value proposition. From this effort, subsequent engineering tasks can be conducted with high confidence that design iteration and project cost will be minimized to support rapid time-to-market lead times.
BH’s comprehensive HFE toolbox enables project teams to apply appropriate levels of usability oversight throughout the design and development process to ensure user needs and use-safety measures are integrated into end-product design. By integrating an iterative, cost-effective strategy from the earliest phases of design, culminating with a rigorous summative validation, we provide a quality-complaint process that demonstrates use-related safety and yields a superior commercial design.
Superior user-experience relies on the successful integration of industrial and UI design, whereby all aspects of the user interface are thoughtfully and elegantly executed, resulting in efficient and accurate device operation. BH’s UI designers work closely with their ID and systems/software teams to embrace advanced technologies and control features that are logical, attractive, reliable, and highly efficient.
The industrial design process considers and integrates system-level architecture into a variety of mechanical concepts to explore the best-balanced solution that addresses user-needs, while optimizing the workflow experience through intuitive functionality, passionate aesthetics, and pragmatic efficiency. At BH, our designers are experienced in defining the best approach to mechanical layout, materials, finish, and methods of assembly that ensure ease of use, service, manufacture, and sustainability at the lowest unit cost.
Conducting relevant research with all intended end-users at project inception is vital to fully understand market requirements, operational safety, and functional specifications. BH identifies and interviews all user groups to better understand the entire workflow spectrum, ensuring a holistic approach to defining design inputs, evaluating performance criteria that ultimately drive successful product validation.
