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Via Dominic Basulto, a nice piece in Wired on design thinking applied to product development processes (“Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process“):

Creating and then manufacturing the Next Big Thing in the world of consumer gadgets is more difficult and complex than you might at first guess. Wired Magazine has put together a behind-the-scenes look at the design of consumer gadgets called The Birth of a Gadget. The article outlines some of the issues faced by a design consultancy (in this case, Frog Design) when it decides to launch a new project.