Inside LA NPDT: What It's Really Like Working in Product Development
LA New Product Development Team · 3:59 · Published August 30, 2026
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What is it REALLY like working at LA New Product Development Team?
In this employee interview, one of our team members shares how a spontaneous, hands-on culture at LA NPDT — from CAD design and 3D printing to bringing wild ideas like a 14-foot golden monkey to life — helps inventors turn ideas into sellable products.
At LA NPDT, we help inventors, startups, and established companies turn innovative ideas into clear, validated, and technically feasible product opportunities through product strategy, market research, concept development, and prototyping.
🔍 IN THIS VIDEO:
00:00 - What working at LA NPDT is really like
00:35 - Getting hands-on with 3D printing & CAD (no prior experience needed)
01:15 - What we actually do: turning ideas into products you can sell
01:45 - Favorite project: 14-foot golden monkey with tattoos, cape & crown
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Almost everything on this channel was produced alongside a real client programme rather than as marketing filler. Some clips are product animations built to explain a mechanism to a licensee or a retail buyer, some document how a prototype was machined, printed or assembled, and some are episodes of our podcast covering developments in product design and manufacturing.
We publish them because most of the questions inventors ask are easier to answer by showing than by describing. Seeing how a part comes off a printer, how an overmoulded grip is cast, or how a concept is judged in a design review tends to settle expectations about cost and schedule far faster than a written explanation.
LA New Product Development Team is a US design, engineering and prototyping group based in Ruston, Louisiana. We take hardware products from an initial idea through research, industrial design, mechanical and electronic engineering, prototyping and a manufacturing hand-off, and every video here comes out of that work.