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Product design covers three things: industrial design (how it looks and feels), mechanical engineering (the parts inside and how they fit), and electronics design (the circuit boards and firmware). Shenzhen design firms often do all three under one roof, and they sit next to the factories that will build your product, so they design with manufacturing in mind from day one.
Foreign-owned, foreign-managed factory (Sofeast group) with English-speaking staff in every department
Dongguan · Chang'anSister PCB and PCBA factories in the same Fuyong industrial park
Shenzhen · Bao'anUK-educated founders bridging Western design and Shenzhen manufacturing
Shenzhen · FutianFounded in 2004 by Jia Wei, profiled as a winner of golds at five major design awards
Shenzhen · FutianOpen-hardware maker brand (400+ own boards) that also assembles customers' PCBs
Shenzhen · Bao'anMedical-device contract design and manufacturing since 2002
Hong KongGerman-founded (2012) design-to-production firm with Berlin and Shenzhen offices
Shenzhen · Bao'anOnline PCBA quoting with no MOQ, run on their own MES and CRM
Shenzhen · Bao'anInstant online PCB quotes, prototypes from US$5 for 10 boards
Shenzhen · Bao'anGet 3 quotes
Describe the part once. We send it to up to 3 shops that fit, and they quote you directly.
7 guides
Everything we've written about Product design & engineering, starting with the basics.
01Design · 9 minWhat design for manufacturing (DFM) means, why it decides most of your product's cost, the core rules, when to do a DFM review, and how DFM feedback from Shenzhen suppliers works.
02Design · 9 minHow to design a product that's quick to put together and easy to test on a production line. The core design-for-assembly rules, what design for test means for circuit boards and finished products, and how Shenzhen factories use test fixtures.
03Design · 9 minWhat design freeze means, why late changes are so expensive in hardware, and how engineering change requests, orders and notices (ECR, ECO, ECN) keep you and your factory on the same version.
04Cost · 10 minThe cost buckets of developing and manufacturing a hardware product, explained for first-timers. Design, prototypes, tooling, certification and the first production order, with typical ranges where they're widely published, plus the costs people forget.
05Basics · 9 minA realistic timeline for bringing a hardware product to market, stage by stage, for first-time founders. Where the time actually goes, what slows projects down in Shenzhen, and how to save weeks.
06Basics · 11 minThe stages of making a physical product, from first sketch to boxes on a ship, explained for first-timers. What happens at each stage, why it matters, what you get out of it, and who in Shenzhen helps.
07Design · 9 minWhat a BOM is, why factories in China build and quote from it, the columns a good BOM needs, how to structure one for a hardware product, and the mistakes that cause wrong parts and delays.
Not always. Many teams hire a firm only for industrial design, or only for a DFM review before tooling.
Many work closely with factories or offer prototype-to-production management; check whether production is in-house or through partners.