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082: Smooth Product Flow from Visual Design to Engineering

June 30, 2021

With Robert Irwin, Lead Industrial Design at Amazon

082: Smooth Product Flow from Visual Design to Engineering

Rob Irwin just wrapped up almost 3 years working as the lead industrial designer at Amazon creating the Amazon Shopping Cart. Before that, he worked for many years as a freelancer, with agencies, and at large corporations doing industrial design and leading physical product design teams. Today Rob is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can ensure that your product development goes smoothly and creates the best version of your product by knowing how industrial design and product engineering can best work together.

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