Product Design Development Flashcards

Product design and development is the process of turning a need or opportunity into a product that people want, can use, and can be made profitably. This set covers the core ideas a student meets in this field, from the basic vocabulary of design to the applied steps of research, concept generation, prototyping, testing, and launch. The cards move from general principles to practical methods within each group, so later cards assume the ideas introduced earlier in the same group.

Study each group in order and try to explain every answer in your own words before you check it. Good product designers constantly move between user insight, technical limits, and business goals, so do not memorize steps as a fixed sequence. Instead, ask why each stage exists and what evidence would show that it succeeded. Treat the cards as prompts for discussion, and sketch or describe a simple product of your own as you go. Reviewing the set twice, once for recall and once for application, will build both vocabulary and judgment.