BlackHägen Design’s industrial design team applies a user-centered design focus to balance usability needs and safety with functionality, aesthetics, and corporate identity. We provide meaning through appropriate design language and offer various design services, including design research, concept development, 3D modeling, prototyping, and testing. Engaging in contextual research and user testing activities, we apply analytical tools to identify business opportunities and develop products that meet manufacturing and user satisfaction targets in collaboration with engineering teams.
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.
BH’s design engineering team work closely with human factors and user-experience members to fully understand the product vision as interpreted through powerful user-studies, respecting evolving innovation and product differentiation strategies. The combined team balance all desired project goals to determine the best system solutions that will ultimately drive the success of the product in its defined market.
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.
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.
