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- I am not really technical minded. Would you be presenting your design with a whole lot of difficult-to-read drawings and jargons?
- I do have some manufacturing experience, and I know most designs are not perfect or even functional in the first go. Would you charge for subsequent modifications ?
- I see from your design examples that you do artistic design for outdoor and indoor displays. How would you present your design so I can have a good feeling of whether it's something that suits my purpose?
- (I am not really technical minded. Would you be presenting your design with a whole lot of difficult-to-read drawings and jargons?) -- Unless the product is of a very simple geometry, that a simple 2D drawing would suffice it, we normally would present our design in a Design Manual. We would not assume readers of the manual to be all engineers. Most illustrations would be photo-like renderings from 3D design files to demonstrate the design ideas, advantages and limitations, cost impacts, etc, and plain simple English would be used as far as possible. Should customer have doubts about certain points therein, we would gladly supply more renderings and explanation to illustrate further, until the customer is firmly convinced that this will be the best design to begin with. If needed, we can provide at additional charge looks-like or works-like prototypes (or both) for further demonstration. See the "Prototype" page in this section for more details. (Back to Top)
- (I do have some manufacturing experience, and I know most designs are not perfect or even functional in the first go. Would you charge for subsequent modifications ?)-- This is a very realistic statement. If the project assigned to us has a very defined objective, goal and scope of application, we would normally quote the design fee as a turn-key contract. We would keep modifying the design until customer is satisfied, and the first production batch has been successfully produced. We would of course charge additional should the objective, goal, or scope of the product be changed in the middle of the process. Sometimes though, an innovator has some idea that he believes is saleable, but is not quite sure how the final product is to take shape, or even what market would be involved, in which cases, we would set certain milestones in the design process, and quote to achieve them in phases. For example, phase I could be a model just to test if the idea works, phase II a follow-up design with aesthetics and ergonomics taken into consideration to produce a small batch to test the market with MINIMUM SET UP COST, and phase III a product for mass production with MINIMUM PRODUCT COST, etc. (Back to Top)
- (I see from your design examples that you do artistic design for outdoor and indoor displays. How would you present your design so I can have a good feeling of whether it's something that suits my purpose?)--- We would normally begin by supplying a few rough sketches from our artists for customer to pick/comment. We would not charge for these sketches. When customer decides to go ahead with one of these, we would offer a quotation to do a technical sketch, a model, which can be clay, wood, fiberglass, plastic, etc, depending on the item. The model can be a full size one if the unit itself is not too big, or a scale-down one otherwise. We can submit photos or the model to customer for further review/comment. In short, we'd try our very best to make sure customer understands exactly what we design. (Back to Top)
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