Product Development Streamlining – A Case Study
Our company’s goal is to turn our clients’ ideas into engineered, manufacturable products. We are often approached with ideas that are interesting and innovative, with unique challenges. We then get to work with our product development team turning those ideas into real products.
Recently, we had a client who owns dogs, who was frustrated with his experience at dog parks. Not all dogs play nice, and it can be a challenge to find friends for your dog.
His idea was to create a tag to be worn on the dog, that would register to an app. If a dog with the same tag was nearby, they would register as friends in a smartphone app. We found this idea interesting, but overly complex from an electronic product engineering standpoint. Also, just because a dog is near yours, that isn’t always a good thing!
We set to work and streamlined the product from a complex Bluetooth beacon tag to just a social media app.
Our team of software engineers and app developers created a social media app that allows the owner to identify friendly dogs, add them to their friends list, and message them to arrange play dates.
By removing the tag feature, we were able to save our client significant time and money from a product development and manufacturing standpoint. There was no need to open a tool or pay for factory set up costs, or spend time making and testing tools.
IDP’s expertise is in creative product design and development. We are here to problem solve your product development needs with our experienced mechanical, electronic, and software engineering team.