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Industrial Design

They don't want a drill. They want the hole.

Innovation demands both creativity and an intimate knowledge of the consumer and her needs. We go beyond Voice of the Customer to true Consumer-Centered Innovation.

Fertile Mined knows that customers don't want a quarter-inch drill; they want a quarter-inch hole. We employ advanced Job Mapping to dig deeper into your customers' experiential needs, and apply our proprietary Consumer Mined™ methodology to accelerate innovation and deliver an exceptional product experience.

Whether you're evolving an existing product, revolutionizing a market or creating an entirely new sector, you can rely on Fertile Mined as your new-product-introduction partner. When a medical client needed photo-realistic renderings for a major trade show on short notice, we delivered — and helped them present an exciting new technology to the venture-capital community.

Hey — we don't call ourselves Fertile Mined for nothin'.

— Industrial Design
Consumer · CMF M50 Handheld Instrument
Capabilities

What we bring to the face of the rock.

  • Concept Exploration

    Divergent sketching and rapid concept development to find the form the market didn't know it wanted.

  • CMF & Form Studies

    Color, material and finish exploration that turns engineering into desire.

  • Photoreal Rendering

    Trade-show and investor-ready visuals produced fast, when the moment matters.

  • Ergonomics & Human Factors

    Design grounded in how the product is actually held, carried and used.

  • Consumer-Centered Innovation

    Beyond Voice of the Customer — Job Mapping and Consumer Mined™ to design for real jobs-to-be-done.

  • Design for Manufacture

    Beautiful and buildable — ID that respects the tooling and the budget.

Point us at a discipline, or hand us the whole product. We fold in testing, DFM/DFA and documentation at every step.

Concept ExplorationSketch & IdeationCMF (Color · Material · Finish)Photoreal RenderingErgonomics / Human FactorsConsumer-Centered InnovationJob MappingConsumer Mined™Design for ManufactureTrade-Show ReadyBrand LanguageNPI
How We Work

A method, not a mystery.

Map the job

We map what your customer is really trying to accomplish — the hole, not the drill.

Explore & render

Concepts, CMF and photoreal visuals to align stakeholders and win the room.

Design for the line

Refine to a form that's manufacturable on your resources without losing its soul.

Proof

Industrial Design in the wild.

M50 Handheld Instrument
Consumer · CMF
M50 Handheld Instrument
MMTOA Blood-Bank Smart Tray
Medical ID
MMTOA Blood-Bank Smart Tray
Endoplus Surgical Device
Medical ID
Endoplus Surgical Device
Scanner Cradle & Display
Product System
Scanner Cradle & Display
CMF & Form Studies
CMF
CMF & Form Studies
Contigo Consumer Product
Consumer
Contigo Consumer Product

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Tell us the impossible version. That's the one we like.

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