- 2D Design
- 3D Design
- 3D printing
- Animation
- Anthropometrics
- App (or application)
- Assembly (or product assembly)
- Back-end (or ‘Muddy Backend’)
- Benchmarking (also benchmark product)
- Best Practice
- Bill of materials (BOM)
- BNO
- Brainstorming
- Brief (or briefing)
- Business case
- CAD
- Certification
- Circular Economy
- Close-to-best-known
- CMF
- Commercialization
- Commercial sample
- Component
- Concept design
- Concept idea
- Consumer driven design
- Context mapping
- Customer journey
- Design Thinking
- Desktop research
- Detail design
- Dimension
- Drawing
- Eco-design
- Eco-design Scan
- Eco-driven Design
- E-Commerce
- Ergonomics
- Exploded view
- Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)
- FEA/FEM
- Feasibility Study (or feasibility check)
- Feature
- Finish
- Flow chart (or Flow diagram)
- Form
- Form study
- Front end (also Fuzzy front end)
- General Assembly (GA)
- Hotspots
- Human Factors
- IdeaCard
- Ideation
- Illustrator
- Inclusive Design
- Industrial Design (or ID)
- Intellectual property (or IP)
- Interaction design
- Interface
- Lean Product Development
- Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
- Manufacturer
- Market Pull
- MAYA (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable)
- ME
- Model (including CAD)
- Mood board
- Mould (or mold)
- Multidisciplinary
- New product development (NPD)
- NPD roadmap (or product roadmap)
- Off-Tool Sample (OTS, FOTR or First off-tool)
- Organic
- Original Design Manufacturer (ODM)
- Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)
- Outside the box
- Part
- Participatory Design
- Patent
- PCB
- Percentile (as in ’5th percentile’)
- Phase
- Photoshop
- Pilot Run
- PoR (program of requirements)
- Portfolio
- Portfolio Management
- Product architecture
- Product specifications (or product requirements)
- Project
- Project Scope
- Proof of concept/ Principle
- Proposal
- Prototype
- Qualitative research
- Quality Control
- Quantative research
- Rapid Prototyping (RP)
- R&D (research and design)
- Regenerative Design
- Rendering
- Research
- Sample
- Schematic
- Scope creep
- Sensitizer
- Sketch design
- Soft-goods
- SolidWorks
- Stakeholder
- STEP file
- Story board
- Storytelling
- Structural packaging design
- Sub assembly
- Supplier
- Supply chain
- Sustainability Metrics
- SWOT Analysis
- Technology push
- Time-to-Market
- Tolerance
- Tool, tooling
- UI
- Unique selling point (USP) or Unique buying reason (UBR)
- Usability
- User
- User Centered Design (UCD)
- User journey
- Vendor
- Visual design
- Visual Thinking
- Wireframe