About CID

Background & Experience

Crump Industrial Design has a broad, knowledgeable background in the product design process. CID brings together the necessary professional resources and services that are required on a project by project basis. As a team we work very closely with our client's engineering, marketing and management teams to insure that the design is accurately developed relative to our client's expectations and goals. This virtual aspect of CID allows us to do large or small projects and keep project cost to a minimum.

Consultancy

CID is pursuing the future of product design and development. We believe that the continual lowering of product development cost and an increasingly faster time-to-market is imperative for success in the future. We also believe that building relationships will be even more important in the future. Relationships that generate a mutual understanding of capabilities, needs strategies, goals and objectives of both CID and the business partner. These will be the most important factors going into the future. CID plans to meet these evolving challenges by structuring for flexibility and adaptability. We believe that can be accomplished by doing the following:

• Seek out, globally, and utilize independent design recourses and services such as CAD, modeling/prototype, human-factor specialist, colorists, marketing surveyors and others that may be required on a project. Thus minimizing costs by sourcing tangential design services as they are needed in the design process.
• Continual improvement in automated product development processes; using high-powered but lower cost, computer hardware technology and computer aided Industrial design software.
• Effective use of the internet to research and communicate design content. As a technology, the internet is much more than most people imagine. Ultimately, the internet can become a pivot point, a dynamic hub for instant communication of design content.
• Develop relationships by getting to know the client’s culture, organization and business goals and then develop design support processes that specifically support these aspects of the client. This relationship forms the basis for responding to the client quickly and accurately. Which in turn supports faster time to market.