Why Do Great Companies Make Bad Products? Design Analysis @Design.Theory
Why Do Great Companies Make Bad Products? Design Analysis  @Design.Theory
Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 29 minutes ago
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How do massive companies with unlimited resources and insanely talented teams still create bad products that no one wants to buy? Product/Industrial Design and Product Development is hard. The path to innovation is uncertain, at best. This video will explore the many reasons behind why companies fail to create innovative product designs, and how it can be avoided.


0:00 Intro
0:24 Team Dynamics Show Through In The Product
1:16 Unclear Vision
3:06 Discerning Between Stupid & Genius
3:36 Management Problems
5:06 Success Was So Close, Yet So Far...
6:17 Being Too Safe
7:00 Sales/Marketing Vs Design
10:00 Innovation is a Threat - Not an Asset
11:09 Kodak & Being Shortsighted
13:38 Fujifilm
14:13 Fear

All content written and edited by John Mauriello. John Mauriello has been working professionally as an industrial designer since 2010. He is an Adjunct Professor of industrial design at California College of the Arts.


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