Here, the priority is given to technical requirements for devices, engineering solutions, even though ergonomic requirements are also imposed on things. After all, a person needs the battery to last longer in a gamepad, and not how it will look in it. It is important that industrial design does not draw unnecessary things.
In this regard, the designer starts working on the product at the end of development, since the appearance is of secondary importance.
Example. The portable automobile recorder "Black Box" was developed by order of an American company as a technological innovation. The device is connected to a standard OBD-II connector and stores sensor data throughout the car in its memory. The designer and constructor of the black box developed a mechanism to block the device from being turned off.
A product with a focus on technology
The thing is that the OBD-II connector ios database does not involve the use of locks, it is designed so that the user can freely connect and disconnect the necessary devices. To create the lock, an element of the standard design of the OBD-II connector was used - a metal strip. This part is jammed by turning a special key. Such a lock is easy to manufacture, since the entire mechanism is turned on a simple machine. The designers retained the technical requirements for the device, adding a new design element.
Industrial design technology is intended precisely to express in the product all the consumer's expectations from the use of the product.
As practice shows, our manufacturers mix or impose old-school ideas on new market laws. For example, at the last stage of development, a designer is given a task: the device must be rectangular, and the interfaces must be located where it is convenient for designers, not for users.
The GLONASS device is an example of the coordinated work of designers and engineers. Due to this, the device has a high density of electronics layout, which created the prerequisite for the thinnest possible navigator body with ergonomic connectors and buttons. And the aluminum alloy chassis made the device durable.