Emerging markets represent the biggest sales opportunities for western brands. But what’s a designer to do when competitors release a $65 smartphone tailored to the needs of those consumers? In this episode, Vince and Allison explore design challenges for foreign markets.

Why do different CAD systems cause a problem for designers? It comes down to the feature definitions in the various packages. Newer software does a better job of geometric translation. That’s a good thing, since multi-CAD environments aren’t going away any time soon.

Vince and Allison discuss how to retrieve the design intent from a CAD model even though the original designers no longer work at the company. This episode shows how to edit CAD models without knowledge of the model's feature history.

Vince and Allison show how a supplier can use direct modeling to modify a design from a customer that’s in a different CAD format.

Vince and Allison explain direct modeling and compare it to parametric modeling, using lots of examples.

Allison and Vince overview the concept of Flexible Modeling, a combination of parametric and direct modeling environments. Vince uses direct modeling to accommodate Allison’s late stage design change even though the original part was designed with parametric modeling.

In this episode Allison and Vince review the reasons why parametric modeling provides such a powerful CAD environment, but recognize that it's not necessarily the best solution in every case.

In this episode Allison and Vince show you how CAD systems have advanced to bring the most important part of your business, Concept Design, into the 21st century.

In this episode, Vince and Allison talk about when top down design is the right way to go and the value that design teams can get from a bottom up approach.

In this episode of the Product Design Show, Vince and Allison explore the last two components of design thinking, integrative thinking and experimentalism, and explain why those two elements are crucial to the whole process.