Design as a competitive tool

Desigence, a leading Finnish design consultancy, has been involved in developing and designing the Newtest Bone Exercise Monitor. When working with client companies, Desigence aims to adopt relevant user data to the customers' corporate strategy, and help to envision, develop and realize the products or services that comply with the market needs. The user centered way of working improves the success rate of the launched products.

The Newtest monitor R&D project is a good case example of Desigence's way of working. The co-development between the manufacturer, the design team and the end-users resulted in an easy-to-use product, which was customisable with graphics. The mass customization option provides the reach of several end user groups and tastes with single technical solutions. The mechanics design and illustrations for the user guides finished the project - making it a turnkey product development delivery.

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