Hardware design principles
Principles for physical product and hardware design, addressing tangible interactions and industrial design considerations.
Hardware design principles
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Fisher-Price Toy Making Principles
Irving Price and Helen Schelle
Irving Price and Helen Schelle's foundational framework for creating children's toys, emphasising intrinsic play value, ingenuity, durability, and affordability to support child development.
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Mercedes-Benz Design Philosophy
Mercedes-Benz
To create fascination and brand identity: that's the objective of the Mercedes-Benz design philosophy, oriented towards long-term effect rather than short-lived trends, it taps into a “gene pool” of brand-typical style elements in the sense of a living tradition. At the end of this process is the car as an individual space for living.
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The 10,000 Year Clock
Danny Hillis
These are the principles that Danny Hillis used in the initial stages of designing a 10,000 Year Clock. We have found these are generally good principles for designing anything to last a long time.