To eliminate technical design risk from prototype to production, we design and manufacture bespoke testing infrastructure. This includes custom lifecycle and environmental test equipment tailored exactly to your product parameters. This spans from building early-stage Proof of Principle (POP) rigs to resolve initial design anomalies and ensure functional verification, through to complex, automated production line QA test equipment to facilitate batch sampling and in-service validation.

We have worked closely with psychologists, ergonomists, ethnographers, and semioticians over many years who understand the value of the physical object in design research. We have enhanced design research through the creation of physical research collateral including: CMF (colour/material/finishes) samples, chip sets and physical libraries, initial form-factor/ ergo-analytical mode, and complete immersive environments.

We support concept ideation and engineering exploration with spatial block models and Proof-of-Principle (POP) Rigs that address and mitigate identified design risks at the earliest stage possible.

Throughout the development of the product, rigs and models are built to test design both through functional verification and ongoing user validation.
In support of DfM (Design for Manufacture), we produce pre-production prototypes, and manage the production of clinical trials samples.

We design and develop lifecycle and environmental test equipment to ensure that pre-production and initial production samples meet the functional requirements of the Product Design Specification.

Physical testing is critical to ensure product reliability and safety. For many companies access to testing facilities is challenging. Test houses are essential for final validation and to undertake compliance testing, but they are an expensive option for iterative development or ‘knife and fork’ testing.

Interactual has created a low-cost physical verification service primarily focused on mechanical testing (force, strain, compression, temperature and humidity). We have also provided design guidance and built test equipment for acoustic, video and wireless signal transmission verification and we are specialists in accelerated lifecycle testing.

We will help you to create a testing strategy that addresses project risks in order of priority. We can provide a full service that includes design of tests, rig building and the testing itself, or we can support client teams to undertake testing for themselves.

We recognise that bootstrapping can only take many of our clients so far through the development process and that they inevitably need to seek further funding, either internally sourced or from outside investment or grant-funding.

We create the right ‘wow factor’ physical collateral for that specific moment. ‘Convincers’ divert budget from development, so we only include what’s absolutely necessary to pitch or sell the product. These include visual/functional demonstrators, pre-production marketing samples, launch mock-ups and displays, exhibition models and maquettes and POS displays and Kinetic installations.