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10 Tips for Having Great Ideas - #3 What's actually going on inside your head?

Someone recently asked us how the design team at The Imagination Factory approaches repeatable idea generation in the projects we work on. It made us stop and think and we ended up with a list of 10 top tips for having great ideas which we thought might be useful to share....

10 Tips for Having Great Ideas - #2 Nurturing the Tortoise

John Cleese has a fantastic way of describing his own comedic creativity by likening it to a tortoise that nervously pokes its head out from its shell to see if it is safe to come out....

The Imagination Factory wins place at UK’s largest innovation show

The Imagination Factory has won a place in an exhibition of the most cutting edge innovations from businesses across the country at the UK's largest innovation show in November. We were one of 100 companies nationwide to be selected to showcase our innovation to over 2,500 attendees at Innovate 2016 on November 2nd and 3 rd in Manchester. The Imagination Factory is a product design engineering agency with experience developing successful products for a range of clients across a variety of in...

10 Tips for Having Great Ideas - #1 Framing the Problem

Someone recently asked us how the design team at The Imagination Factory approaches repeatable idea generation in the projects we work on. It made us stop and think and we ended up with a list of 10 top tips for having great ideas which we thought might be useful to share. ...

Tools of the Trade #2

In this series of blogs we look at some of the tools we use at The Imagination Factory. This post describes how we evaluate the usability of products we are designing to try and avoid user frustration....

Top Picks from CES 2016

We watched the coverage of the International Consumer Electronics Show this year with interest. There have been so many predictions about the trends in technology and consumer behaviour we were curious to see how this would play out in the products that were on display....

Tools of the Trade #1

In this series of blogs we look at some of the tools we use at The Imagination Factory. The landscape of software and hardware available to today's design studios has changed dramatically in recent years. With a little bit of effort to discover and learn these tools designers of all backgrounds can create professional work in a range of areas including electronics, Apps, 3D designs, prototypes and even virtual reality. Many of the newer tools are open source or have a low cost compared with tr...

Season's Greetings

To all of our clients, suppliers, supporters and friends. Here's to an exciting 2016 from all at The Imagination Factory ...