Design Outsourcing

Another interesting video that gives you a snapshot of the effects of outsourcing on one country, particularly India.
Have a look and let me know what you think:

Prevent Disasters in Design Outsourcing
by Jason Amaral and Geoffrey Parker
Firms that pursue product platform strategies—by leveraging a common set of development, production, and support resources—have been able to outmaneuver competitors by cost-effectively delivering a greater variety of distinctive products. Having succeeded in outsourcing manufacturing, these firms are now also working to outsource the design of [...]

Here’s an interesting and in-depth article about product design outsourcing written by BK Sathish from Infosys in India.
Click here for the PDF.
Source: www.infosys.com

From Wikipedia:
Product designers are equipped with the skills needed to bring products from conception to market. They should have the ability to manage design projects, and subcontract areas to other sectors of the design industry. Aesthetics is considered important in Product Design but designers also deal with important aspects including technology, ergonomics, usability, stress analysis [...]

Here’s a great and lengthy article from Design Sojourn.  Published sometime ago, and updated last year – most of the ideas are still relevant.
10 Tips on landing you an Industrial Design Job.

Here are some of the tools that you will need when establishing your freelance work:
1. Computer – this is (almost) absolutely necessary, unless what you do is all hand work and you then submit your deliverables yourself or via post or courier.  But that was the business model of yesterday!
If you can’t afford to buy [...]

Product design is the manifestation of an idea into physical form.  It is distinct from other forms of creation (such as art making and sculpture) in that it arises from a certain need and is intended to be used.  Product design is a subset of Industrial Design (ID), but the latter has a broader range [...]