If you are looking for an electronic product design provider there are often several important considerations. One of the most important is often location. Do you look for a company located in your own country or located locally to you or do you look into using a designer from a low-cost Far East country for instance. This is one area where although cost will of course be a primary concern the problems of using an offshore electronic product design provider needs to be carefully considered. Communication, time zone difference and skill level is the key thing here. If your project is simple to define and won’t evolve during the design process then this can make using an offshore provider an attractive option. However if that is not the case then there can often be big problems caused by poor communication due to language barriers and delays waiting for responses to issues as they arise. Also it is important to consider the working relationship between you and the designer or designers on your project and of course this can be something where the phrase “you get what you pay for” comes into play. It is rare when designing a new product that ideas, improvements and problems don’t come up as part of the design process and it is therefore important that the designer you select will ensure the final product is as brilliant / cost-effective / usable etc as it can possibly be.
