A great product requires design and development, working as one.

Fresco brings together the industrial design, ergonomic design, rapid prototyping, engineering, and manufacturing services needed to take your product from concept to production-ready.

Design Innovation
Before we start designing, we help you define exactly where your product can create the most value. Both for the people who use it, and for the business behind it.
Product Strategy & Positioning
Identifying where a product can create the greatest value, defining its role, differentiation, audience, and strategic direction.
User Research & Insights
Discovering user needs, behaviors, motivations, and pain points through focused research to give the design team a grounded basis for decision-making.
Experience Journey Mapping
Mapping the complete user experience across key moments, interactions, and touchpoints to reveal opportunities, friction, and priorities for product improvement.
Competitive Benchmarking
Evaluating competing products, experiences, technologies, and market trends to identify gaps and meaningful ways for a new solution to stand apart.
Product Line Roadmapping
Planning how your product family will evolve over time, aligning user needs, business priorities, technology, and opportunities.

Industrial Design
We design how a product looks, feels, functions, and fits into the way people actually use it. We bring together user needs, business goals, and technology constraints, to create products that are both desirable and achievable.
Concept Development
Exploring a wide range of product ideas, architectures, and designs, then developing the strongest concepts into clear, compelling, and actionable directions.
Usability Design
Shaping controls, interactions, interfaces, and physical relationships around real user behavior, so products feel intuitive, comfortable, and easy to understand.
Form Development
Developing product form with disciplined attention to proportion, ergonomics, manufacturability, and brand, creating designs that feel intentional from every angle.
CMF (Color, Material, Finish)
Defining color, materials, textures, finishes, and graphic treatments to support product character, durability, manufacturing requirements, and brand expression.
Visual Brand Language
Creating a cohesive visual language of forms, details, proportions, and signatures that makes products recognizable and consistent across a growing portfolio.
Physical UX/UI Design
Designing the physical touchpoints of interaction, including controls, indicators, interfaces, and feedback, so hardware communicates clearly and behaves naturally.
Out-of-Box Experience & Packaging
Packaging that optimizes how products are protected, presented, accessed, and understood. From concepts through prototyping and user testing, we develop packaging that is intuitive and ready for mass production.
3D Visualization
High-quality 3D visuals and animations bring products and ideas to life. From photorealistic imagery to technical storytelling, interactive experiences, and demonstrations, these assets communicate product functionality and build excitement.

Human Factors & Ergonomics
Our body-first design ethos drives us to constantly consider fit, comfort, performance, and usability. By combining a mastery of human data with physical product design, we create products that delight every user.
Inclusive & Universal Design
Designing products to accommodate a broad range of bodies, abilities, and use conditions, reducing barriers while improving comfort, access, and usability for everyone.
Human-Product Simulation
Bringing together posable 3D human data and product CAD to simulate motion and evaluate fit, reach, posture, clearance, and interaction before committing to physical prototypes.
Usability Prototyping
Building targeted prototypes to evaluate how people operate, understand, and interact with a product, allowing usability issues to be identified and resolved early.
Human Factors Testing
Planning and conducting structured studies with representative users to evaluate ergonomics, comprehension, performance, safety, and use-related risks under realistic conditions.

Product Development
Throughout product development, our industrial designers and engineers iterate and innovate to find creative engineering solutions, navigating manufacturing and performance constraints, and solving issues on the product's path to production.
Design Engineering
Translating design intent into robust product architecture and detailed geometry, resolving mechanical, assembly, material, and manufacturing constraints without losing the original design vision.
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering structures, components, and assemblies for performance, reliability, safety, and manufacturability, using analysis and testing to support confident product decisions.
Mechanism Development
Conceiving, prototyping, and refining mechanisms that deliver the required motion, feel, force, durability, and user experience within real packaging and manufacturing constraints.
Design Validation
Testing and evaluating prototypes against functional, ergonomic, dimensional, and performance requirements, identifying issues and refining the design before production commitment.
Design for Manufacturing & Assembly
Optimizing parts and assemblies for efficient manufacturing, reducing cost, part count, and assembly risk, while protecting product performance, quality, and design intent.
Class-A Surfacing
Creating production-quality exterior surfaces with the precise continuity, highlights, transitions, and curvature control that premium finishes demand.
Part Design & Tooling Release Geometry
Delivering production-ready part geometry with draft, shelled with wall thickness, ribs, bosses and tolerances resolved.

In-House Prototyping
We prototype daily, moving you from design concept to physical product smoothly and efficiently. Each build and iteration answers a critical question or validates a design direction.
Rapid Prototyping
Rapidly building and iterating physical parts and assemblies using additive manufacturing, clay, foam, machining, and fabrication, to accelerate solutions.
Appearance Models
Creating high-fidelity models that accurately represent final form, color, material, finish, graphics, and details for evaluation, presentations, and stakeholder review.
Functional Prototypes
Building working prototypes that reproduce key mechanical, ergonomic, and performance characteristics so critical functions can be refined and demonstrated before production.
Short-Run Production
Producing limited quantities of finished parts and assemblies for pilots, field trials, and early customer use before full-scale manufacturing begins.
Testing & Validation
Designing and performing practical tests to verify fit, function, performance, and assembly, to guide refinement.
Color Material Finish (CMF) Development Workshops
Our CMF workshops refine beyond a standard color chip and pantone number, so teams can make real-time changes and informed decisions to compare colors, materials, textures, and finishes.

Manufacturing Sourcing & Development
Through our Fresco East studio in Suzhou, we’ve built a network of specialist suppliers, materials experts, and manufacturers. We work closely with these partners to deliver solutions that are fully de-risked and ready for production.
Material Sourcing
Identifying materials that meet your performance, appearance, regulatory, cost, supply, and manufacturing requirements.
Supplier/CM Search & Qualification
Assessing and qualifying the manufacturing partners best matched to your product, based on quality, capacity, cost, and timeline needs.
Process Creation & Development
Developing the production processes your product requires, including custom methods and workflows when no existing process delivers the result you need.
Prototype-to-Production Transition
Managing the handoff from working prototype to production line, resolving design, process, tooling, quality, and supplier issues before they become costly downstream problems.
How we work
Our hands-on, iterative design approach quickly identifies product opportunities and dead ends, replacing assumptions with evidence, and pushing real innovation forward.

Whether you have a market opportunity to explore, an engineering prototype, or something in between, we build on what you have and get to work.
Get up and running with a Fresco Sprint.
Not sure where to start? Our focused sprints are designed as entry points into working with Fresco, giving you access to our senior expertise for a specific product challenge before committing to a full engagement. Fast, actionable, and grounded in the realities of product development.

Design for Funding Sprint
Design of a clear product vision and development plan that gives investors confidence in both your product and the path to market.

Design for Manufacturing Review
A thorough review of your product files that identifies manufacturing risks and guides you towards production readiness.

Usability & Ergonomic Design Sprint
A data-backed ergonomic analysis to identify fit, comfort, and usability risks and recommend next steps.
Common questions about Fresco's expertise.
We only need help with one part of our product development. Can Fresco support that?
Yes. Many clients bring us in for a defined phase, or when they need additional expertise within an established program.
We can step in for front-end innovation, an ergonomic study, CMF development, physical prototyping, mechanical engineering, DFM, 3D visualization, or wherever your team needs additional depth.
We have an established internal team, and a preferred way of working. How does Fresco integrate with our process and culture?
As a senior team accustomed to partnering with strong internal teams across global organizations, cultures, and styles, we know how to adapt, communicate clearly, and work in a way that empowers your team and accelerates program goals.
What industries or product categories does Fresco typically work in?
We work across numerous industries including wearables, robotics, medical devices, consumer products, healthcare, audio, industrial equipment, automotive, and emerging technology.
Across these industries, our work focuses on two areas: complex products that require senior, cross-functional expertise, and products where the user experience is critical to success.
Why does Fresco prototype throughout the design process?
Prototyping is embedded across all of product development because we have years of proof that with prototyping we innovate, better and faster.
We prototype from early proof-of-concept and ergonomic prototypes, to complex functional parts and assemblies, low-volume test builds, and fully-machined working units.
Does Fresco handle manufacturing?
We do not manufacture at scale. Working with our trusted manufacturing partners and/or yours, we develop a validated product and manufacturing plan.
Through our Fresco East studio in Suzhou, China we vet manufacturing processes, source materials, and test low-volume pre-production builds to ensure a smooth transition from prototype to production.
We’re an early-stage startup preparing for a funding round. How can Fresco help?
For an early-stage startup, we recommend our Design for Funding Sprint. The outputs of this 2-3 week effort are designed to provide investors with the confidence and excitement to fund your next stage of development.




