Succeed in IoT with our 8-step design process. Our proven 8-step design process guides you through technology, design, business models and prototypes, ensuring your product is ready for a successful market introduction.

Transform your ideas into successful smart IoT products

By combining your ideas with cutting-edge technology, we help you create IoT products that are valuable, meaningful, and useful for both your company and customers.

We combine design-thinking with agile, iterative prototyping and early business modelling. With over a decade of experience, we support companies in creating innovative, technology-based solutions.

Our expertise lies in combining your knowledge with new technologies, including IoT, smart products, and Industry 4.0 solutions. Partnering with us ensures that you are guided towards new business, technology, and market opportunities, leading to a successful product launch.

Key benefits of working with us

  • A library of smart product concepts
  • Insights gained through live tests and interviews
  • Early market and feasibility tests, including a prototype
  • Information about state-of-the-art technologies and user profiles
  • Help navigating the regulatory landscape and avoiding potential pitfalls.

How the 8-step design process works

Our 8-step design process covers every aspect of product development, ensuring you get both a high-level overview and deeper insights of important key success factors. 

The tried and tested 8-step design process bridges gaps between stakeholders, technology, regulatory considerations, design, business models, and the final prototype, making sure your product is set up for success.

Our design process is divided into three phases: Sandbox (ideation and conceptualization), Validation (testing and business modeling), and Prototyping (creating functional prototypes).

8-steps design process is split in three phases: Sandbox, Validation and Prototyping
Our 8-steps are split in three design phases: Sandbox, Validation and Prototyping

Addressing the challenges of product innovation

While many companies have great ideas for new products, the challenge is turning those ideas into successful products. Often, a lack of relevant validation tools, structured innovation processes, and resource allocation hinders progress.

Our approach prioritizes and frees up resources for product development by structuring ideas in relation to market segments and business strategies.

Turn idea into smart IoT products

IdemoLab at FORCE Technology has developed efficient innovation tools that cover the four key domains in new product development: people, context, business, and technology.

We focus on areas such as technology selection, value creation for end users, and iterative testing to refine your idea into a smart IoT product.

Design meets Technology meets Business - development model
IdemoLab at FORCE Technology has developed and proven the efficiency of innovation tools that cover and validate the four important domains of new smart product development, i.e.  people, context, business and technology. 

We also analyze your internal structure to identify gaps or areas where better communication between teams could improve your IoT product's development. Based on our deep knowledge and expertise, we help you fill these gaps and address cross-disciplinary challenges.

In fact, we believe you already know more than you think – our role is to help you uncover it.

Filling the cups - IdemoLab process
Based on our access to detailed knowledge and expertise, we help you fill “the empty cups“, or improve communication between your internal groups and divisions to meet the cross-disciplinary challenges that IoT product development comes with.

Get started with Smart products and IoT

Are you ready to create your next IoT product? Contact us today to learn more about the 8-step process or dive deeper into IoT and digital technology.