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Illustration of a wooden robot with people interacting, holding tools, and peering through lenses.
Illustration of a wooden robot with people interacting, holding tools, and peering through lenses.

User-Oriented Product Design

User-Oriented Product Design

User-Oriented Product Design

Design products rooted in real-world use to ensure relevance, desirability, and impact.

Why Design a Product with a User-Centric Approach?

Many products fail because they are conceived internally: technical logics, internal constraints, expert opinions. A user-centric approach allows for reconnecting design with reality, by relying on the practices, needs, detours, and choices of users.

Our Approach: Observe, Understand, Design

We begin by understanding the usage situations in which your product will be utilized: movements, environments, goals, emotional or social contexts. This qualitative data is then transformed into design drivers to define useful features, desirable formats, and a coherent product experience.

Methodology

  1. Field Immersion: observation of real usage situations, user interviews, visual capture if needed.

  2. Usage Modeling: action logics, moments of tension, routines, alternatives.

  3. Product Framing: essential functions, usage scenarios, technical and economic constraints.

  4. Co-Design and Rapid Prototyping: iteration on forms, functionalities, interactions.

  5. Testing and Adjustment: user feedback, feasibility/desirability arbitration.

Benefits

  • Products truly aligned with expectations and practices.

  • Reduction of the risk of non-use or abandonment.

  • Differentiation through experience rather than technology alone.

  • Seamless integration into real usage contexts.

  • Faster time-to-market through more confident decisions from the start.


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Keyne

Dupont

Director of Innovation, Design & AI

Our Associated Projects

Discover a selection of projects related to our service offerings.
Contact us if you would like to know more.

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Design products tailored for fitness with a distinguished touch

For a sports entity, ethnographic study on aquabike practices for product design purposes.

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Designing a future vehicle

For one of the world's largest manufacturers, prospective studies and a co-design approach that help unveil design scenarios for the future vehicle expected to generate 40% of sales in 2030.

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Designing tomorrow's offering by mitigating the risks associated with the autonomous vehicle experience

For a multimodal mobility stakeholder, user studies and prospective scenarios on the use and acceptability of autonomous vehicles.

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Designing products tailored for seniors

For a player in the sports industry, ethnographic studies of water sports practices among seniors, providing the foundation for designing the future range of products.

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Let's discuss this over a cup of coffee.

Whether it's for a project, a collaboration, or just to chat, feel free to send us a message or schedule a meeting. We are always delighted to make new connections.