Hello! I'm an industrial designer and I break down my design process in videos including tutorials, walk-throughs, and how-tos. I also share my thoughts on the wider world of design, and give tips for people breaking into the industry.
I've worked in London as a designer for the last 5 years, and I also run the Sam Does Design Instagram page, where I share behind the scenes content.
Hey, I'm trying to follow this tutorial, I've made a book that is supposed to be printed, BUT I want to make a digital version of it too, which is quite big, and I think this is because it is designed as a 21x21cm, and that's probably way too big, and when I reduce the pages, the layout of my multiple images changes, but I don't want that, I woul like the image to be smaller as well… But when I make the pages smaller, only the pages shrink, the images stay at the same size, which is very annoying considering I have 270 pages and 1500 pictures, I'm not going to resize each of them… Is there a way to make the document dimensions smaller without messing with the design?
I signed an NDA for a potential licensing project. That never went anywhere. That was about three or four years ago. I assume I STILL can't talk about it.
My late teenage kids don’t cant think of ANY vocation. Im an Architect and they’ve only become cynical about Architecture because they’ve heard me complain about how little we are paid compared to trades. Perhaps ID would be desirable for them? However I wonder how AI will affect it? Any ideas anyone (for an over the hill tired father)
History seems to grow down, so you need to scroll all the way down to get to where you last actioned. Should be building the history list from bottom up so your last actions are easily found at the top of the list. Quicker and easier i would say.
That’s an interesting way of framing it. You can think about it like writing instructions to the CAD program. It’s like writing on a sheet of paper - any instruction you start with is at the top of the sheet, and each new instruction is on a new line.
@@SamDoesDesign yes but you build objects from the ground up. Also its easier to search from the top level and more likely to be where you want to edit last minute changes.
TBH I was a bit shocked by your view and criticisms of HCD, not because they aren't valid, but by how they don't reflect the broader picture at all. I feel like your college/professor had a biased and limited perspective. Firstly, It's not something IDEO created. Sure, they are key evangelists for the approach, and particularly within the Industrial Design space, but they are not where the movement started, nor represent the only major players. Whilst it's fair to criticise the earlier work of Don Norman for the over focus on usability, ergonomics, and interaction mappings, his later work on emotional design corrects this reductive early view. Many other innovations, and broadening of remit, has occured in HCD and UCD since. This includes cognitive science, psychology and social factors, emotional, brand, sentiment and many more complete and holistic human factors taken into consideration in the HCD process. Many, many large, medium and small companies utilise an HCD approach across an array of design fields, and include emotional considerations into the mix.
After putting quite some effort migrating to blender im never looking back. Is significantly faster, more realistic and much more robust (keyshot is full of bugs and opening old files is impossible)
This video was EXACTLY what I was looking for, I just started using shapr this year and its been going great, but I always was thinking it would be great to know what to pay attention too when trying to make parametric modeling work out well. This is it, really on point tips, thanks so much!!!
I don't understand - I do the exact same setup and the light is INCREDIBLY blown out. I reduce the brightness to 40 and it looks almost more normal, but it's still blown out in the front and quite dark in the back. The only difference I have is I created a white "photo studio" box with a seamless back wall. Why does this not work for me?
Great video! I too started off with sketchup. As designers, there isn't much need for us to work in heavy engineering software such as Solidworks. I have found Sketchup and Blender to be the perfect combo for producing anything from large shipping container port scenes to ceramics. I honestly think that Sketchup does not get enough credit. The only problem with Sketchup is the polycount. I tend to build my scene 'architecture' in sketchup (because it's fast and accurate), I then assemble the scene in Blender. Blender takes some time to set up, but once you build a template, it becomes just as fast as Keyshot, without the scale constraints, and infinite animation capabilities.
Hi there, I am currently doing masters in design and engineering. I am only confident with solidworks at the moment. What other skills I should acquire to get better at designing in your opinion? Thank you
Smooth Shade in Blender is a "cheap" vizualisation trick in order to save hardware headroom in polygon heavy files. It does not alter the geometry, or communicate with the render engine. If you want the object to render smooth in Blender's render engine you need to use the subdivion (render). I don't think this feature would make any sense in Keyshot. The blender to keyshot plugin brings models form blender into keyshot.
Der ist für Deinen sehr detailreich und gut erklärten Beitrag zur relativ neuen Funktion in Shapr3D.... Danke! Exakt wegen der Möglichkeit des parametrischen Modellierens habe ich die Shapr3D-Beta vom ersten Tag an genutzt und geliebt. Gruß von Stefan aus dem U-Allgäu (Deutschland) This is for your very detailed and well-explained contribution to the relatively new function in Shapr3D.... Thank you! Exactly because of the possibility of parametric modeling, I have used and loved the Shapr3D beta from day one. Greetings from Stefan from the U-Allgäu (Germany)
I'm running into a problem where the non-raised parts of the wall with the displacement map aren't being lit by the HDRI. If anyone knows what might be causing this I'd be really grateful.
Hello! Is it possible to share how the room is created? You are talking about the program, but I can not find it. And how the room is imported in your Keyshot project? Thank you in advance!
Wow! This is really cool! Thank you for starting from the beginning for someone brand new to parametric modeling. I’ve struggled to get precise dimensions in my drawings. This will help!
Thanks for the video but what if you need to make a family product shot and each product looks perfect only in its own HDRI environment. Can you somehow combine them in Keyshot?
