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Product strategy • Industrial design • Engineering • Prototyping

Taking new product ideas from concept to market.

Definitive researchers, designers, and engineers are strategic thinkers who help clients define, design, validate, and prepare products for manufacturing.

Our Approach

Integrated collaboration from the outset.

Although the work varies greatly, from sippy cups to surgical devices, getting it right is the common denominator.

Definitive asks the right questions, talks to the key people, and considers the full range of viewpoints related to each project. The team believes in ethnography and the value of observing end-users in the activity and environment being designed for.

That process helps uncover unmet and often unrecognized needs, giving clients clear competitive advantages.

Why Definitive

Curiosity, analysis, ingenuity, and know-how.

A diverse team with complementary skills, expertise, and life experiences adds value to every project and creates better products for clients and end-users.

Strategy Early

Product strategy starts early by understanding stakeholders, end-users, requirements, and development priorities.

Practical Design

The process adapts to each client’s needs, from strict measurable guidelines to retailer, cost, or marketplace constraints.

Market Ready

Concepts are refined through design, prototyping, validation, documentation control, and engineering for manufacturing.

Services

Complete product development support.

From early research and concept exploration to design control, testing, prototyping, and manufacturing transition.

Industrial Design

  • Voice-of-the-customer research
  • Market research on competitive trends
  • User experience and user interface
  • Concept exploration and refinement
  • Product design specification
  • Functional, aesthetic, and interface features
  • Digital or physical model forms

Engineering

  • Feasibility study of product function
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Design for manufacturability and assembly
  • Electronics, PCB, microprocessor, and software integration
  • Verification and validation design
  • Testing, inspection, and FEA
  • Documentation and design control

Prototyping

  • Complex mechanical proof-of-concept models
  • Electrical and mechanical assemblies
  • Looks-like / works-like models
  • Engineering check models
  • Rapid prototyping and direct digital manufacturing
  • CNC machining and urethane castings
  • Rapid injection mold tooling and molding

Wearable Technology

Healthcare wearables, sensors, and IoT-connected products.

Definitive Design has experience incorporating wearable sensors into medical products and developing bio-sensing healthcare wearables, activity trackers, fitness devices, and connected consumer or commercial products.

Mobile app development teams work with clients to address customer experience, functionality, and interoperability with the wearable device being developed.

Confidentiality is a primary concern.

Request a Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement so your new product idea can be discussed freely.

Applications

  • Medical device wearables
  • Bio-sensing healthcare products
  • Activity trackers and fitness devices
  • Consumer and commercial wearable technology
  • Smart-home and IoT-connected devices
Helping clients develop wearable medical products that move digital health programs forward.

Leadership

Experienced product development guidance.

Craig Hidalgo, President

craig@definitive-design.com

Craig is an engineering and design management professional with more than twenty-five years of product development experience. As President of Definitive Design Corporation, he guides a team of program managers, industrial designers, and engineers.

His core strength is uncovering, understanding, and prioritizing customer and end-user needs, then formulating an exacting development plan while maintaining documentation control and design validation.

Craig is inventor of record on 17 patents in areas including tissue ablation, deployable ultrasound devices, uterine treatment instruments, sharps protection, durable medical goods, and dental devices.

History

Built from product development and manufacturing roots.

In 1999, Definitive Design was spun out of Paramount Industries Inc., an experienced provider of product development services including product design and engineering, rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, and direct manufacturing from digital input.

Contact us today for your next project.

Discuss product strategy, design, engineering, prototyping, or wearable technology development with Definitive Design.

Phone: 267-544-7800

Email: info@definitive-design.com

Address:

105 Corporate Drive East
Langhorne, PA 19047

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