Innovativt industrielt og digitalt produktdesign.

Nice to see you back for the grand finale: here is the final episode of our design trilogy! If you’ve enjoyed the story of how our design concept Hive came about in part two, you’re in for another twist. In this chapter, we take the return machine a step further: trying to meet the users new demands that will emerge with introducing a service like Reuseable, and not just getting the machine to blend in, but adapting to its surroundings. Inspired by the welcoming funnel shape, Chameleon “opens up” to its users and intuitively signals where to interact. Join us as explain our process through all layers - on material choices, modular thinking, and how Chameleon reflects the city. We did a second iteration of the design process which resulted in a new form concept which we called Chameleon. The Chameleon form was inspired by the funnel shape, making the machine open up towards the users and clearly show where to interact with it.

Welcome back to part two of our three-part design adventure! If you joined us for episode one, you’ll remember how we looked at why the Reuseable return machine needed a rethink. Now, Adnan Oprasić Senior Industrial Designer, and I started sketching and drawing, to reimagine a return-machine’s form and function. That’s how Hive came to life.

What started as a quiet moment in the design studio, at the beginning of last year, quickly turned into an exciting design journey, when I stumbled on something on my way to work one morning. A rather box-looking machine, occupying the sidewalk, caught my attention. What is this? And why is it disrupting the beautiful cityscape of Aarhus?

Hounö og Design-People gentager succesen og byder velkommen til vores inspirations event i Randers d. 20. marts kl. 15.00. Temaet er modularitet, baseret på udviklingen af ovnserien Invoq, og berører designprocessen for både det fysiske og digitale design. Vi byder på noget godt at spise og en rundtur i produktionshallerne.

I en tid, hvor touchskærme er overalt, kan man nemt tænke, at fysiske knapper hører fortiden til. Men i brancher, hvor sikkerhed, præcision og robusthed er afgørende, står de fysiske knapper stadig stærkt. Læs med og bliv klogere på hvorfor fysiske knapper stadig er uundværlige i industrien – og hvordan den rette balance skaber de bedste HMI løsninger.

Hvordan kan brugercentreret design skabe værdifulde brugeroplevelser på komplekse og ingeniørtunge HMI'er (Human Machine Interfaces)? Læs med og find ud af, hvordan vi anvender digitalt produkt design og design thinking til at skabe intuitive og brugervenlige HMI'er, der øger kognitivt overskud, oppetid og brugertilfredshed.

HOUNÖ lancerede i foråret 2023 den nye ovnserie Invoq, som blev til i et spændende “Open Innovation Circle” samarbejde, mellem forskellige specialister og private label kunder.

One question always troubles a designer: how does a new design fit in with the old? This issue was central in the design process that led to the development of Kamstrup’s MULTICAL 21, a product that has become an industrial design icon.

The daily frustration was the reality for many Nilfisk users across diverse industries before we stepped in. Back then, Nilfisk's Aero vacuum sales were in decline. They desperately needed an innovation, and they found it in our user-centered approach.