#Product Design & Engineering

Iterative physical and digital product development, user ergonomics, and modular mechanical design.

✍️Blog Posts2

Jun 10, 2011

The Evolution of a Functional Prototype

In a previous article From Sketch to Prototype I illustrated the change from fuzzy whiteboard sketches to more structured and formal HTML prototypes. In this ar...

#blog #drawing #product-design #user-interface #ux-design

Feb 13, 2009

Entrepreneurship Lab Screenshots.

This term I participated in the lab for Entrepreneurship and New Media. The students were split into groups and assigned to an industry partner. Then, a softwar...

#product-design #software-systems #user-interface

📚Reviewed Publications4

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First experiences from using CADdrive with digital LEGO for product design and systems engineering education

Georg Hackenberg and Christian Zehetner

Proceedings of the Design Society 5, pp. 1823-1832, August 2025

#cad #collaborative-software #education #product-design #systems-engineering

Learnings from developing a custom virtual assembly environment for mountability issues of cooling cabinets

Georg Hackenberg and Christian Zehetner

Proceedings of the Design Society 4, pp. 583-592, May 2024

#manufacturing-systems #product-design #simulation #systems-analysis #systems-verification #thermal-engineering

Digital twin and digital thread within the product lifecycle management

Christine Lehner, Antonio Padovano, Christian Zehetner and Georg Hackenberg

Procedia Computer Science 232, pp. 2875-2886, January 2024

#manufacturing-systems #product-design #simulation #software-systems #systems-engineering

GITHUB FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT-HOW COULD THAT LOOK LIKE?

Georg Hackenberg, Christian Zehetner and Dominik Frühwirth

Proceedings of the Design Society 3, pp. 2055-2064, July 2023

#cad #collaborative-software #open-source #product-design #software-systems #systems-engineering #user-interface

🚀Software Projects1

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CADdrive

Product Design Platform

CADdrive is a web-based, collaborative product design platform for schools and universities, lowering the learning curve for CAD and team engineering.

#cad #collaborative-software #education #open-source #product-design #systems-engineering #web-development