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Clearly the most difficult aspect of designing is the birth of the initial concept.
Having a conceptual design team literally at your fingertips is rare in the R&D industry.
We offer a unique service that can provide your company with new perspectives and fresh ideas
that frees up your design team to do what they do best
- take a concept and make it uniquely yours.
IDS-CONSULTING provides innovation consultation
for select clients
who require an injection of "creative capital".
The concept (a fresh look)
Conceptual Design is where it all starts
yet is where problems often remain stalled.
Conceptual Design ability is a gift.
People with that gift are extremely rare.
This is where having one as a partime consultant can be really
helpful.
It's the level of talent that's hard to find any other way
The details (a deeper look)
"The devil is in the details". That last 5% is half the work.
People may not even see the difference, but they feel it.
IDS-Consulting offers a "conceptual design function".
In that capacity, we can act as a "ghost design dept" for our clients:
- Provide initial design solutions.
- Solve that one last problem left.
- Extra input toward new projects.
- Refining existing designs.
- The final-tweak process for new products.
- Tweak new life into an older product.
- Handle entire projects.
- Set solution directions for new projects.
In addition to his frameless bike and rotary engine the WebSite shows,
There is also a project index in the works for the Gallery.
Here is a short list ....
1. software (browser, OS tweaks ....)
2. hardware (laptop, PDA ....)
3. air, water and ground transportation
(engines, roadster, camper van, motorcycle, snowmobile, jetski,....)
4. medical equipment and processes (burn therapy ....)
5. sporting equipment (temperature controlled shoe, offroad skate ....)
6. outdoor clothing (survival extra-functional)
7. toys (mainly for kids ....)
8. furniture (metro post-modern style)
9. power production (photo-electric fabric ....)
When a client asks for help,
they can be assured that
the problem is handled as quickly as possible.
We are
able to work 24 hrs/day on a problem.
Time is often the
most crucial factor in such situations.
clients are strictly private.
We can function as "ghost
designers".
The client may choose to take public
credit for all solutions,
because no one needs to know
that the solution did not come from the client.
We are a Design Studio.
Physical prototyping may sometimes
be handled through us,
but is often done by the client's
Engineering and Design Depts.
We provide the design solutions,
the client provides the engineering and implementation
with IDS-C available for tweaking throughout he project process.
This partnership is generally the most efficient means
of seeing a project through it's development.
- Have a hard challenge that others will not tackle
- Look IMPOSSIBLE to solve ?
- Preoccupied or stretched too thin ?
- Running out of ideas ?
- Have an idea that you need refined ?
- Running out of time ?
- Need options ?
- Giving up ?
…. THEN it's time to contact us.
Because of the the mind-set involved with this kind of
work,
whenever we look at a technology we almost always
end up building up a "bitch list"
thru which we come up
with all kinds of improvements to whatever we see.
Sometimes,
when these proposed changes are exciting enough,
we may
not be able to resist contacting the company(s) involved.
Most all consultation takes place on a pay-as-you-go basis.
An up front fee is followed by weekly billing that reflects
the time and other expenses involved.
We do, in a few
cases, partner with companies on a partially vested bases.
We can only do this with a very small portion of our work,
since our funding is slated for our continued design work
and rarely freed up enough to vest in a client's situation.
We work within the framework of the Internet.
Our
associates consult from their locations thru IDS worldwide.
Link: Contact
Address
Communication and consultation fee information is available
upon request.
We communicate via e-mail so as
to keep an automatic and accurate record.
We shall accept
faxes, which are automatically converted to email during
transmission to us,
but we do not send faxes.
We prefer
the color of e-mail attachments, but they must be cross-platform
compatable.
Please do not send:
.... or any other virus-prone files that are not cross-platform.
They will not be opened nor forwarded.
We prefer the use of files such as:
- .pdf [Adobe Acrobat]
- jpg
- .mpg
- .mp3
- .gif
- .tiff
- .ra/.ram
[RealPlayer Audio]
- MediaPlayer
- Quicktime
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