The Expert User Trap

08.31.10   John Bernero

Prior to the development of a product, engineers and marketers prioritize the input they receive from experts and often apply them literally in the development of new products. Typically, a few very important users are selected and their perspectives are prioritized over a wider group of stakeholders that should influence the design of the product.

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Strategic R&D Planning Process

05.10.10   Gray D. McCord

Do you enhance your existing product or create a new one? Can you do both? How is that done?

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Cutting Edge Design

08.28.09   M3 Project Team

Stryker challenged M3 to design a “best in class bone mill”

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MD&M East 2009 Presentation

06.22.09   John Bernero & Paul Kramer


M3 Design recently presented at MD&M East 2009 on the topic of Identifying an Immediate Need and Developing a Product in a Timely, Efficient Manner

If you are interested in how product development is performed in the healthcare…

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Outsourcing to China

03.26.09   Gray D. McCord

Are you considering outsourcing a medical product to China? Learn about the risks and rewards from the M3 experts!

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Designing Inside/Out

09.10.08   Laura Richardson

As a designer I walk a fine line. On the one hand, I must listen to and positively respond to clients’ demands for the allegorical “Precious.” But on the other hand, I long to create meaningful products with which the…

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InkJet White Paper

08.19.08  

M3’s Tony Gatica authored a white paper that will be published in the Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting by the American Society for Precision Engineering.

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Eco-Design Story

08.19.07  

Bling is King and Eco-Style everything at BP’s new emissions-free gas station. Azure magazine, fine purveyors of all things related to Design, Architecture and Art feature M3’s work in their August 2007 issue.

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Sustainability Concept

08.19.07  

M3 Design’s entry in an International Design competition sponsored by Muji. To answer their challenge to reinvent an everyday, the M3 Design team:

  • Reversed the relationship of a compact florescent light bulb to its packaging
  • Reversed the consumers interaction

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Design Improves Fishing Experience With New Personal-Sized Boat

01.25.07  

Pitching fewer than five degrees was the goal achieved, as M3 Design product developers rigorously optimized the stability model of the new TriPRO TX511 Personal Watercraft in a variety of real-life conditions. When the project was finished, M3 Design had…

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