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- Design Performance Workshops
- Rise & Design - Resources
- Boomerang - past questions
- Design Network North's Bookshop
- Videos
- Network Map
- Design Showcase
- Design Snippets
'Design Performance' Workshops
Are you satisfied with your existing products and services?
Are you happy with your process for developing new products and services?
Do you really understand what your customers are looking for?
Do you know how to stay ahead of your competition?
Do the project objectives change throughout the life of your design projects?
Is your whole team behind your latest product or service?
If you can’t answer a resounding “Yes” to all of these questions then Design Network North can help with our new series of Design Performance workshops.
What is the aim of the ‘Design Performance’ workshops?
Based on research with a wide variety of small businesses, these comprehensive workshops will enable your whole team to assess your current performance across the key areas of new product and service development and to create action plans to improve your performance.
Each half day workshop is designed to result in a simple visual representation which will enable your team to define and develop new approaches and to plan actions that will improve your team’s performance.
These workshops are fully funded (for up to two days support) and are facilitated by our Design Network North experts.
Interested?
If you are interested in our Design Performance workshops then please contact a member of the Design Network North team on 0191 516 4400 or email enquiries@designnetworknorth.org.
Click here for more information on Design Network North's 'Design Performance' workshops.
Below are presentations, videos from past Rise & Design events if you were unable to attend or fancy another look.
No 1 : Customer Focused Design
PR - summary of meeting
Procter & Gamble presentation
Seaward Electronics presentation
No 2 : Creativity in Engineering Design
PR - summary of meeting
Black & Decker presentation
Hardy & Greys Ltd presentation - added shortly
Outpace Ltd presentation
Octo Product Development Ltd presentation
Get on the Wall 'two minute pitch'
Video - added shortly
No 3 : Collaboration on Design Projects
PR - summary of meeting
Ray Noble presentation
Mike Dowson presentation
Video - added shortly
Boomerang is a service that Design Network North offer whereby anyone with a question - one of those difficult to answer ones where you wouldn’t know where to start looking for an answer or if you are looking for someone with a particular expertise. However your question should relate to business/design/NPD in some way.
We then send the question out to the whole network on your behalf to all our members in the hope that someone out there might know something useful. Any replies are collated and fed back to you along with relevant contact details etc.
To send a question to the boomerang email with sufficient detail and background. Below are the topic of past Boomerang questions that have been sent to the network. To see the actual questions asked click here.
Boomerang #16 - Electronics Design
Boomerang #15 - Resin and acrylic models
Boomerang #14 - prototyping in glass
Boomerang #13 - Laser cutting and fabrication
Boomerang #12 - laser welding
Boomerang #11 - Bulk moulding compounds
Boomerang #10 - Soldering Standard
Boomerang #9 - Printer
Boomerang #8 - Thermoforming Specialist
Boomerang #7 - Galvanised Steel
Boomerang #6 - Glass Strength
Boomerang #5 - Mobile Phone Tracking
Boomerang #4 - R&D Tax Credits
Boomerang #3 - Trademark
Boomerang #2 - Bonding Aluminium
Boomerang #1 - Plated Screws
If you are interested finding out the responses to any of the questions or would like to be apart of Boomerang then email us.
Below are presentations, videos from past Rise & Design events if you were unable to attend or fancy another look
Visit our bookshop today to find the latest books which have been recommended by our members. If there is any books, gadgets etc you would like to recommend then please email enquiries@designnetworknorth.org.
Design Network North has created its own YouTube channel where it will post videos relating to good design. We have begun by including some clips by speakers at our launch on March 27th, 2009. If you have any suggestions for content which will relevant to the network please email terry.mcstea@rtcnorth.co.uk
The network map plots any organisations who have agreed to 'join the network' and helps us see the network grow over time. It is designed to be a visual representation of the DNN members and allows users to search by discipline or location and simplify the process of accessing design support. To add your profile and logo click here.
To complement your member profile, you can also submit work to be featured in the online portfolio of work showcasing the best of the region’s talent. To submit case studies of your work email enquiries@designnetworknorth.org
This page is for general useful links and resources the team has come across. If you find anything that might be useful to support the network in promoting best practice and good design please email john.hetherington@rtcnorth.co.uk