Where design meets durability and efficiency

Human-Centered Commercial Equipment Design and Service Design Firm

powered by Psycho-Aesthetics®.

JBL EON 500

The best-selling powered speaker series, the EON 500 sets a new benchmark for portable PA systems

The EON 500 series sets a new benchmark for portable PA systems — delivering professional-grade sound, rugged reliability, and effortless portability.

REVA ELECTRONIC HOOKAH

$4 million raised, driven by our breakthrough design and engineering solutions.

REVA’s innovative designs and curated flavours provide high-quality, safe, and enjoyable smoking sessions for an unparalleled experience.

IGT PEAKBARTOP

The Winner of "Land-Based Product of the Year" at 2022 Global Gaming Awards

IGT’s transformative PeakBarTop with Sports Betting brings the bartop experience to a whole new level. The design allows a player to watch a live sporting event and make a range of wagers on comprehensive sports betting menus

Commercial Research and Strategy Capabilities

We translate user insights into actionable product strategy — aligning brand goals with real-world needs to drive lasting impact.

Research Design
Designers often aren’t the users of industrial products. So, we research to deeply understand the target market behaviors, needs, and lifestyles. We use tools like ethnography, interviews, and testing. This research helps RKS make designs that benefit users for years, ensuring they’re safe, easy to learn, and simple to use.
Ethnographic Research
We root our design thinking in ethnographic research — studying consumers in the context of their daily lives. Whether observing behaviors in homes, during routines, or at play, we uncover the nuances that drive meaningful design. When in-person research isn’t possible, we leverage digital tools to capture insights remotely. These deep, real-world understandings fuel the innovative, award-winning solutions RKSDESIGN is known for.
Industrial Product Strategy Design
We take a comprehensive approach when planning a consumer device. Beyond just the product, we consider client goals, budgets, regulations, and market needs. We balance features, cost, and timing to create a product consumers want at the right price. Our designers focus on the entire user experience, from manuals to graphics and servicing. We also consider the product’s lifespan, determine which parts users can replace, and figure out how to disassemble it.
Industrial Product Production Support

Industrial products usually face fewer regulations than consumer ones. Yet, they still need to follow health, safety, and environmental rules like TSCA, Prop 65, and EU standards like REACH. Consumers can also use some industrial designs, which then face extra regulations. If a product isn’t strictly industrial, we ensure it meets CPSC safety standards. Throughout our design process, we ensure products align with all necessary regulations and are ready for agency testing.

Production Design
Industrial products need to be durable and efficient for high-intensity environments. We often design them for mass production to keep costs low. Our process considers these tough requirements and ensures designs are affordable for the market. Our designers prioritize understanding these needs from the start
Designer Insights
Designers play a crucial role in turning ideas into products. They look at overall issues, brainstorm, and choose directions. Designers connect business and user needs, even when they are different, by working with clients. In 2020, we carry years of expertise in synthesizing diverse needs into coherent industrial designs and strategies that are wildly successful.

Design and Engineering Capabilities for Commercial Products

Our industrial design and engineering expertise come together to create commercial products that are not only ready for market — but built to perform for years to come.

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Industrial Product Definition, Product Design and Development

We use our special psycho-aesthetics methodology in our industrial product development process to create emotional ties between products and users. Instead of just focusing on how a product feels, we consider how it makes users feel about themselves. For industrial designs, this means helping workers feel safe and efficient. Our designs aim to reduce risks and speed up tasks. Industrial product experience design emphasizes a product’s aesthetic appeal, structural form, color palette, and tactile experience.

Technical patent sketches showing Reva Hookah’s pod interface and top enclosure

Engineering and Verification

Industrial products come with specific challenges needing expert engineering. Our experienced team often designs with intricate systems and innovative materials. Using advanced AR/VR and CAD tools, we address these issues early, speeding up the design, prototyping, and production process.

Zebra Printer Research Notes

Technology Roadmap

We use a three-phase approach for technology roadmap development. First, we set essential requirements, leadership, and scope. Next, we pinpoint system needs, main technology areas, and alternatives. In the final phase, we refine our roadmap before implementing it. This process ensures we prioritize cost-effective technologies for outstanding results.

IGT Poker Bartop Research Images 07 Product Design

Proof of Concept

Our proof of concept (POC) method helps us share knowledge, explore new technologies, and present a concrete idea. A POC tests a design or technology idea. Its main goal is to show our design’s basic functions and confirm its feasibility. We also include safety analysis to meet standards set by bodies like the FDA and CSA.

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Beta Prototyping

Beta Prototyping lets us turn a concept into a testable product for user feedback. This feedback guides design and function improvements. It also helps our team gauge the time needed for a final product. Since we center our design on users, industrial product prototyping is vital for advancing production and pinpointing issues. It refines and validates our design direction with better accuracy.

A woman in a white sweater smiles as she tends to green leafy plants growing in a modern, wooden indoor vertical garden mounted on a wall.

Future Concept Development

After creating a concept and prototype, we plan for upcoming features and technologies. Future concept development considers upcoming tech, global trends, market changes, and user needs. It might involve basic requirements or new prototypes. Tailored to client needs and the device type, this approach helps businesses adapt to market changes more quickly.

Initial design sketches of the JBL EON speaker showcasing different concepts and ideas.

Intellectual Property Support

After making a prototype from our concept, we plan ahead for upcoming features and technologies. We consider future tech trends, global shifts, market changes, and what users might need. Depending on the client and device type, this might involve new concepts or prototypes. This approach helps businesses quickly adapt to market changes.

Industrial Product Definition, Product Design and Development

We use our special psycho-aesthetics methodology in our industrial product development process to create emotional ties between products and users. Instead of just focusing on how a product feels, we consider how it makes users feel about themselves. For industrial designs, this means helping workers feel safe and efficient. Our designs aim to reduce risks and speed up tasks. Industrial product experience design emphasizes a product’s aesthetic appeal, structural form, color palette, and tactile experience.

Proof of Concept

Our proof of concept (POC) method helps us share knowledge, explore new technologies, and present a concrete idea. A POC tests a design or technology idea. Its main goal is to show our design’s basic functions and confirm its feasibility. We also include safety analysis to meet standards set by bodies like the FDA and CSA.

Hand pressing a button on top of the Zebra ZD420 printer, with cartridge visible inside the clear lid

Beta Prototyping

Beta Prototyping lets us turn a concept into a testable product for user feedback. This feedback guides design and function improvements. It also helps our team gauge the time needed for a final product. Since we center our design on users, industrial product prototyping is vital for advancing production and pinpointing issues. It refines and validates our design direction with better accuracy.

Technical patent sketches showing Reva Hookah’s pod interface and top enclosure

Engineering and Verification

Industrial products come with specific challenges needing expert engineering. Our experienced team often designs with intricate systems and innovative materials. Using advanced AR/VR and CAD tools, we address these issues early, speeding up the design, prototyping, and production process.

Zebra Printer Research Notes

Technology Roadmap

We use a three-phase approach for technology roadmap development. First, we set essential requirements, leadership, and scope. Next, we pinpoint system needs, main technology areas, and alternatives. In the final phase, we refine our roadmap before implementing it. This process ensures we prioritize cost-effective technologies for outstanding results.

Miravel door being closed product design

Future Concept Development

After creating a concept and prototype, we plan for upcoming features and technologies. Future concept development considers upcoming tech, global trends, market changes, and user needs. It might involve basic requirements or new prototypes. Tailored to client needs and the device type, this approach helps businesses adapt to market changes more quickly.

Initial design sketches of the JBL EON speaker showcasing different concepts and ideas.

Intellectual Property Support

After making a prototype from our concept, we plan ahead for upcoming features and technologies. We consider future tech trends, global shifts, market changes, and what users might need. Depending on the client and device type, this might involve new concepts or prototypes. This approach helps businesses quickly adapt to market changes.

Commercial Product User Experience Design

The experience of a product is a combination of the industrial design, UI, and branding into a compelling UX.

Human-Centered Safety and Usability

Industrial product designers need to ensure users can safely use a device in its intended setting. We enable this through human factors validation testing, user testing, or usability engineering. This process helps minimize errors that might cause harm. We test product prototypes with typical users to find strengths, weaknesses, and possible errors. Additionally, we collaborate with device manufacturers to shape our tests based on identified risks and selected KPIs to lower those risks.

User Experience Design

User experience design (UX) defines a great industrial product. We gauge this through performance, accuracy, and usability. Products should address user needs, solve problems, and outshine existing solutions. We must build them consistently to specifications for a uniform UX. For a product to be usable, users should find it familiar. To achieve this, UX must be a focus from research to manufacturing. Our team looks at every product detail, from size to technical constraints.

User Interface Design

User interface design and industrial design shape how users interact with products. We aim for designs that are user-friendly and efficient. Through human-centered design, we consider how users will use and react to the product. We follow key UI principles: giving users control, ensuring comfort, simplifying tasks, and maintaining consistency. Our goal is to merge the UI and design for an outstanding user experience that empowers consumers.

Branding Design

A brand forms an emotional bond with consumers through its design, influencing how they feel about themselves. In competitive markets, a strong brand identity is vital. It helps businesses stand out, attracts partners, guides marketing, and sets pricing based on brand value. While some think a brand is just about a logo and colors, we believe in a comprehensive approach. This includes business and audience analysis, brand positioning, creative development, social media marketing, implementation, and ongoing evaluation.

Digital Development

Modern industrial products combine cutting-edge software and hardware. With technology ever-evolving, these products often merge both realms. We utilize top tools and technologies like augmented reality, AI facial and body tracking, natural language processing, blockchain, machine learning with tools like TensorFlow, video processing, hardware integration, IoT, and 3D imaging with OpenGL.

Need a product that performs under pressure?

Industrial product design focuses on conceptualizing and creating products that are functional, aesthetically pleasing, and manufacturable. It combines art, science, and technology to bring innovative solutions to everyday problems.

While general product design can encompass a broad range of items, from digital assets to physical objects, industrial product design specifically targets mass-produced goods, often involving materials like plastics, metals, and other industrial materials.

A deep understanding of the market helps designers cater to consumer needs, predict trends, and ensure that the product has a competitive edge once launched.

The key stages include research, ideation, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing. Each stage requires careful planning and execution to ensure product success.

Certainly! https://rksdesign.com/work-all/. Our portfolio showcases a range of products we’ve designed, reflecting our commitment to innovation and quality.

Begin by reaching out to our team at https://rksdesign.com/contact/. We’ll discuss your product ideas, market research, and how we can collaborate to bring your vision to life.

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