The Wi-Fi Smart Thermostat converts an energy-saving product into a design tool.
Unlike most services, which use a browser-based tool for book design, with Apple you use a stand-alone photo editor iPhoto or Aperture to create your book.
It involves from the moment they hear about the product (marketing), to the experience of purchasing (sales), to using the tool (product design) and finally to service.
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BizTalk Orchestration features a drag and drop design tool, a runtime engine to execute and debug applications and a "binding architecture" for tying business processes with applications that automate them.
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So much skill, in fact, that Keane started patenting those innovations--like how to aggregate thousands of orders into batches to trim costs, or how to make his Web site's design tool (which lets customers whip up their own brochures and business cards) communicate seamlessly with Web browsers.
To make it simpler, Kellermann joined several other researchers and experts from Microsoft to design an interactive tool that's now posted on the federal government's main H1N1 information Web site, flu.gov.
Storytelling is becoming the new design, a powerful tool to differentiate products and services.
"When I use Betaville I see it more as a tool that pushes your boundaries in design, " explains the New York resident.
In the past a product's shape alterations would be hammered out by designers in a surface-modeling program, a tool that allows for easy curve design and concept change.
Right now the tool is geared toward assessing the sustainability of existing products, but plans are in the works to roll out a tool that could be integrated into design and manufacturing processes early on to help gauge the potential impacts of various decisions and enable companies to design more sustainable products.
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The website is designed chiefly for policy makers who want to see what issues their counterparts in other jurisdiction have tackled to promote wind energy generation, such as the pricing structures, said Heather Rhoads-Weaver, a market and policy consultant with eFormative Options, which led the initial design of the web tool.
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For clothes and accessories with longer shelf lives like handbags, sunglasses and lingerie, though, the design patent is a useful tool.
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For Bipper, an app developer based in Bergen, Norway, a safety tool for women evolved from an existing design for kids.
SAP's tool, called Gravity, lets users design business processes in Wave, while Novell's Pulse, a stand-alone product that will be released in 2010, will add security features, an improved chat function and live editing of Microsoft Office documents.
While the technology is still in the very early stages, 3D printing is nearing becoming a real world application. 3D printing is a tool that can be used to validate a design, ensure pieces fit together properly and even make a product mock-up for marketing.
In the first challenge, which focuses on the vehicles mobility systems and drivetrain, teams will use a DARPA-designed online collaboration tool called VehicleFORGE to put together and submit a design to the competition.
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Keynote scores for the ease of its drag-and-drop assembly and its context-sensitive Inspector tool, which will be familiar to users of design products from Adobe (nasdaq: ADBE - news - people ) for controlling the attributes of each element.
Wirth has decided to design the new Virgin car without using a wind-tunnel, a tool for shaping a car's aerodynamics that has been de rigueur in F1 for 30 years.
Using this predictive and analytic traffic tool, transportation agencies and city planners in the future will be able to proactively design, manage and optimize transportation systems to deal with ever-increasing traffic due to population growth and increasing urbanization.
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