Our services
At Punctuate, we are a fresh and diverse team of product designers, industrial designers and strategists all fueled by our ambition to create innovative, mindful, & impactful solutions.
From market and user research, to helping you define your product strategy, moving on to the creative process of ideation and industrial design, all the way to prototyping, testing & validating the concepts. Not only do we promise to help you develop and bring your ideas to life, we also provide you with the tools to validate their viability & desirability.
Research & Product strategy
With our expertise in consulting and entrepreneurship, we can research market trends, analyze target persona needs, in addition to helping you refine your brand image, business model, and marketing strategies.
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Our methods & tools:
- Interactive workshops
- Product objectives & goals
- Product positionning
- Design criteria
- Market research
- Innovation strategy
- User journey
- User experience
- Brand identity
- Targeted persona
- Crowdfunding platform
- Project management
Industrial design
We understand that our client wants the best for their audience. We therefore operate through a collaborative design methodology.
With our user-centered approach, we research and test to find unexpected and convincing answers, and we use empathy to understand the user. With our analytical tools, we define a product brief with specific design criteria. Through our ideation tools, we iterate ideas through sketching, 3D modeling, and quick mockup testing.
Our methods & tools:
- Collaborative brainstormings
- Eco-conception design principles
- Product development
- Product design
- Design and stylistic studies
- Conceptual design
- Design language
- Interaction studies
- Sketch rendering
- 3D modeling
- Photorealistic visualisation
- Rapid prototyping
Mechanical engineering
We have the chance to collaborate with experienced, ambitious and talented engineers who are constantly on the lookout for new technological trends.
With their expertise, we are able to fully develop technical, functional and operational aspects of your product so that it is ready for prototyping and manufacturing.
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Our methods & tools:
- Mechanical development
- Technical drawings
- Design for manufacturing
- Dynamic, structural & static analyses
- Feasibility analysis
- Supplier research
- Quotation & production documentation
- Selection of materials & hardware
- Validation tests
Prototyping
Working closely with our engineers and sub-contractors, we able to bring your concept to life.
Through our rapid in-house prototyping techniques, we are able to quickly 3D print and validate different ergonomic, functional, or even aesthetic aspects of the product.
Then, we collaborate with other stakeholders to produce Looks-Like & Feels-Like functional prototypes, all the way to small-medium batch manufacturing & assembly.
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Our methods & tools:
- Rapid prototyping
- Development models
- Working prototype
- 3D modeling for prototyping
- Test & pre-certification models
- Ergonomic & contextual study
- In-house mockup 3D printing
- Sub-contracted 3D printing
- Sub-contracted production of small-medium series