Friend's email

Your Name

Your Email

Subject

Message M31 Product Design Usability Concepts Intermec Technologies Corporation is a global leader in the development and manufacture of automated data collection and mobile computing systems. When the company wanted to create innovation in ergonomics, interaction design, and industrial design that would enable them to extend their market success and consolidate their brand presence, they turned to IDEO. The team’s task was to create new design concepts that would lead to high-quality, user-friendly products that would increase user efficiency, productivity, and loyalty. The resulting Intermec M31 Product Design and Usability Concepts serve the full range of Intermec products, including those typically used for extended periods in adverse environments, such as hand-held computers, fixed and mobile printers, wall-mounted wireless transmitters, and terminals mounted in vehicles. Next-generation products now benefit from following: -An innovative control and display interface that is quick and easy to use, and tightly integrated with product appearance -Portability and optimum ergonomic comfort -An efficient design that allows for quality construction, simple manufacture, and product durability -A distinctive and attractive, yet understated, style, suitable for a variety of professional environments The new products based on the M31 concepts better express Intermec’s brand messages of performance, intelligence, reliability, and quality, and are consequently making life easier for the company’s sales force and helping creatively unify the company’s far-flung product design groups across the globe. Moreover, the concepts provide a template such that each new product need no longer begin “from scratch,” thereby saving Intermec three to four months on research and development time—and, importantly, time to market. http://www.ideo.com/work/m31-product-design-usability-concepts/