A Dog's Life

When we started SY Design close to year ago we never imagined that we'd be designing products to be sold on the shelves of Petco, Petsmart, and other dog boutiques! We're having so much fun now, in the first stages of our newest design project for "Outward Hound", that we thought you'd like to see some of our design process and "user based R & D" for a different type of "consumer", the friendly four legged kind.

Last week we began when a box of samples arrived in the office with all three of the dog's here to give them a good "looking over". It felt a little bit like romper room with squeaking toys everywhere, and dog's running back and forth like they were in heaven. Here's a shot of Iggy, the ball destroyer giving one of the toys a good testing.



One of the projects includes re-designing a rain coat for pooches, here are a couple shots of us "testing them out"


Another part of the project includes coming up with some new and improved ideas for dog life jacket's, which of course required some user testing out at Sauvie Island last week in order to better understand how to approach this "new subject".


We're feeling like we're off to a good start, and having a lot of fun with this new project, next...squeaky toys and treat bags!

We've also added some links to some of our favorite sites, check them out. Until next time, back to "work" for us.