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Deconstructing Product Design
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Deconstructing Product Design

by William Lidwell, Gerry Manacsa
November 2009
Beginner
240 pages
9h 8m
English
Rockport Publishers
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Sonicare Toothbrush

David Giuliani, David Engel, Roy Martin, and Steve Meginniss, 1992

  1. Having had a very personal and painful experience with periodontal disease a few years earlier, David Giuliani was excited to learn about research going on at the University of Washington that studied an improved method of cleaning teeth using sonic technology — a method that not only cleaned teeth better, but that dislodged dental plaque beneath the gums. Giuliani licensed the technology and worked with a small team of designers and engineers for over five years to transform the research technology into a commercially viable product. David Giuliani comments: “We designed the toothbrush to be simple to use. We wanted it to be so natural and so intuitive ...
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