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A snapshot of the disciplines our Louisiana-based product development team practices every day. Each score reflects the share of projects in that discipline we have delivered end to end.

  • Web Design — 99%
  • Concept Design — 82%
  • Print Design — 70%
  • Website Development — 76%
  • Application Development — 80%
  • Product Development — 94%

Where to go next

  • End-to-end product developmentConcept design, engineering, prototyping and short-run manufacturing under one roof.
  • Partners and friendsThe manufacturers, labs and specialists we bring onto projects.
  • Tech TalkConversations with our engineers about how the work gets done.
  • Product development examplesReal projects we designed, prototyped and shipped.

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What each discipline actually covers

A percentage only tells you how often we do something. This is what the work contains, and what you receive at the end of it.

LA NPDT disciplines, scope and deliverables
DisciplineWhat the work coversWhat you receive
Concept designSketch exploration, form studies, ergonomics and early material calls before geometry is lockedConcept sheets, rendered directions, a recommended direction with rationale
Product developmentMechanical design, tolerance and fit, design for manufacturing, part consolidationParametric CAD, drawings, a bill of materials and a build plan
PrototypingFDM, SLA and SLS printing, CNC parts, urethane casting, electromechanical assembly and bench testingA working unit, test notes and the changes the build revealed
Application developmentFirmware, connected-device apps and the tooling around an instrumented productSource, build artifacts and documentation
Website developmentThe launch site, product pages and the analytics behind themA deployed site you own, with source
Print and web designSell sheets, packaging graphics, pitch decks and brand assets around the productPrint-ready and web-ready source files

Why we keep these under one roof

Most product failures we get called into are hand-off failures, not design failures.

A designer who never has to build the part will draw a wall thickness the molder rejects. An engineer who never saw the concept intent will value the tolerance stack over the thing that made the product worth buying. When those two people sit on the same project, the correction happens in an afternoon instead of in a change order.

That is the practical reason this list is broad. A connected consumer device needs mechanical design, electronics, firmware, a print sell sheet and a launch site — five vendors, or one team with one schedule. The percentages above are just the record of which combinations we have run most often.

It also changes how estimates behave. When the group that designs the part is the group that prints and assembles it, the cost of a change is known before it is drawn, so budgets move less between the concept review and the first build.

Questions about our capabilities

What disciplines does LA NPDT cover in-house?+

Product discovery and research, industrial and concept design, mechanical and electronic engineering, prototyping, low-volume manufacturing, plus the software, web and visual work a launch needs. The point of keeping them together is that one team carries a decision from sketch through tooling instead of handing it across three vendors.

What do the percentages on this page mean?+

They are the share of our projects that included that discipline end to end. A project counted under product development, for example, is one we carried from concept through a working build, not one where we only contributed a drawing.

Can you take on a single stage instead of the whole program?+

Yes. Most engagements are a la carte — a CAD package, a prototype build, a manufacturing hand-off — and only some run as a full end-to-end program. The solutions page lays out the common entry points with timelines and budget bands.

Where is the team based?+

Ruston, Louisiana. The whole team works from the United States, which is why our engineering hours land in the same time zone as most of our clients and why prototypes ship domestically.

Where to go from here

  • Solutions and budget bands

    Entry points by situation, with timelines and typical budgets.

  • Product development examples

    Projects that used these disciplines together.

  • Industrial design services

    The design half of the list, in detail.

  • Prototyping services

    How the physical builds are produced and tested.