Where to Find Help on Product Design for Your Business
After finally breaking through on the big idea for your business, what comes next you may ask. At this time, you definitely can't wait to see a physical mock-up of your product cut out straight from your mind just the way how you envisioned it to be.
Perhaps unless you're a born craftsman, this comes as no huge challenge. But to those who would rather spend long hours on solving business problems, brainstorming on the next ad campaign or servicing clients' needs than tinkering with their own hands, product design may surface as one monstrous task. But no room for worries now since there are several resource groups available to provide assistance when it comes to designing your product.
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Perhaps unless you're a born craftsman, this comes as no huge challenge. But to those who would rather spend long hours on solving business problems, brainstorming on the next ad campaign or servicing clients' needs than tinkering with their own hands, product design may surface as one monstrous task. But no room for worries now since there are several resource groups available to provide assistance when it comes to designing your product.
1. Product Design and Development Center of the Philippines (PDDCP)
Formerly known as the Design Center of the Philippines (DCP), PDDCP serves as a technical arm of Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). It is the key government agency tasked with the mandate of creating and developing designs for Philippine products and services.
PDDCP especially caters to small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) along with private/public groups and design enthusiasts. Aside from attending to SMEs' product design and development requirements, it also offers a diverse mix of design-related services that includes seminars and workshops, technical consultation, graphics label design, merchandise development, raw materials research and library publications, among others.
Formerly known as the Design Center of the Philippines (DCP), PDDCP serves as a technical arm of Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). It is the key government agency tasked with the mandate of creating and developing designs for Philippine products and services.
PDDCP especially caters to small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) along with private/public groups and design enthusiasts. Aside from attending to SMEs' product design and development requirements, it also offers a diverse mix of design-related services that includes seminars and workshops, technical consultation, graphics label design, merchandise development, raw materials research and library publications, among others.
2. Local neighborhood and community craftsmen
You may not look that far for product design help since it may actually just be right at your reach nearby. There are some enterprises whose workshops or offices operate at the barangay level.
So come on, why not ask around your friends and stroll around your village neighborhood. Or perhaps, tap also your fellow SMEs. For sewn products, do you remember si Ate Linda mananahi, or perhaps, si Kuya Vic karpintero for putting together some wood crafts? It's not a remote possibility that you may even come across women paper or handicraft weavers just a few blocks away from your home.
You may not look that far for product design help since it may actually just be right at your reach nearby. There are some enterprises whose workshops or offices operate at the barangay level.
So come on, why not ask around your friends and stroll around your village neighborhood. Or perhaps, tap also your fellow SMEs. For sewn products, do you remember si Ate Linda mananahi, or perhaps, si Kuya Vic karpintero for putting together some wood crafts? It's not a remote possibility that you may even come across women paper or handicraft weavers just a few blocks away from your home.
Sometimes, prominent communities or towns come as top-of-mind for specific industries or skills set. For instance, Marikina is well-known for its highly skilled shoe- and leather product-makers. There's also Paete, Laguna famous for its finely chiseled wood carvings. If you're really keen on polishing your product design, you may contact local government units (LGUs) for referrals on reliable community craftsmen.
3. NGOs, Cooperatives, & Foundations
There are also organized groups of marginalized sectors formally registered as NGOs, cooperatives or foundations that offer product design services. While they may aid you on your product requirements, you also help give back to the less fortunate. Among the more popular of these groups is Tahanang Walang Hagdanan, which helps improve lives of Persons With Disability (PWD) through training and livelihood employment.
There are also organized groups of marginalized sectors formally registered as NGOs, cooperatives or foundations that offer product design services. While they may aid you on your product requirements, you also help give back to the less fortunate. Among the more popular of these groups is Tahanang Walang Hagdanan, which helps improve lives of Persons With Disability (PWD) through training and livelihood employment.
4. Private Entities
Finally if you're not really constrained on budget, you may try to search for the rightful private company or freelancer with skills specialty on industrial design to help you with your product design needs. For one, there is the National Council of Industrial Designers of the Philippines (NCIDP) that could jumpstart your research.
Finally if you're not really constrained on budget, you may try to search for the rightful private company or freelancer with skills specialty on industrial design to help you with your product design needs. For one, there is the National Council of Industrial Designers of the Philippines (NCIDP) that could jumpstart your research.
Whoever you resort or end up with for your product design needs, it is just helpful to bear in mind that your finished output should be one that you're happiest and most satisfied with. It may be easy to fall prey into complacency and mediocrity by just settling with "pwede na" or "okay na 'yan". Remember at the end of the day, your product showcase will serve as best frontliner of your business, and at most, of yourself.
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