Prototype your Product with Confidence

If you’re searching for an agency who can transform an innovative concept into a tangible product, look no further.

We’re the perfect match for the whole of your product development journey, including prototyping, offering reliability and expertise honed over 15 years developing over 1600 products.

Complete Product Design to Market Solutions

D2M offers comprehensive prototyping services with fully equipped in-house workshops, utilising our capabilities to develop prototypes ranging from basic working models to high-fidelity prototypes ready for presentation to retail buyers, investors, or stakeholders. Our senior team, with their extensive skill set derived from diverse sector experience, ensures the precision and quality of each prototype. With in-house 3D printing, CNC machining, and machine shop capabilities, we meet tight deadlines and rapidly trial different solutions, embracing an agile approach to prototyping.

At D2M, innovation drives every aspect of our work. From initial concept drawings through design, prototyping, IP protection, sourcing, branding and marketing we provide comprehensive product development services. Our flexible approach adapts to fit your needs, allowing you to join in the development process at any stage and maintain control throughout.

At D2M, our holistic approach ensures that our design engineers are proficient not only in prototyping but also in manufacturing. This means your design undergoes thorough scrutiny to minimise the need for significant alterations during production—a service uncommon among prototyping companies. Our integrated expertise not only saves costs but also accelerates development timelines, a unique advantage we bring to the table.

Here are just some of the sectors that we work in

Leisure & Sports

Health & Wellbeing

Pet & Equestrian

Home & Garden

Contacting the team at D2M

We can start working with you and your team at any stage of the product development journey. We are happy to sign a confidentiality agreement before discussing the concept and can provide an expert review of your current design.

Types of Prototype

At D2M, our seasoned team specialises in crafting various prototypes, spanning from functional models for mechanical testing to integrated presentation prototypes featuring apps and electronics that mirror final products. Our aesthetic models have impressed investors, even gracing platforms like Dragons Den, while our functional prototypes have fueled successful crowd-funding campaigns, enabled global trade show launches and garnered retail interest before production.

Approach

We adopt an agile approach, prioritising the swift delivery of a minimum lovable product to market. Our diverse clientele, ranging from SMEs to Fortune 500 companies, values this pragmatic strategy, which accelerates time-to-market and slashes overall costs. Our process begins by defining the prototype’s purpose and testing criteria before any construction begins, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness throughout.

Process

At D2M, we prioritise strategy evaluation before diving into prototyping. Many companies rush into prototyping without ensuring their commercial strategy is fully developed risking prototyping the wrong concept. Our wider services such as market research can prove invalualble in providing a cost and time saving sense check before building costly prototypes.

Our highly experienced team at D2M considers manufacturing feasibility as an integral part of the prototyping process as well. Unlike many prototyping companies, we’ve navigated volume manufacturing ourselves, and so we can ensure that your design approach aligns with production requirements. By integrating manufacturing considerations from the outset, we save you significant costs in the long run.

Once viability is established we can then proceed with design finalisation, material sourcing, component selection, fabrication, prototype testing and then into refinement for production.

Phil and D2M are the best at what they do and I would highly recommend working with them if you are looking for a product design company. From the beginning, Phil's passion and expertise came through when deciding on a partner.

D2M is a great company to work with and one we would recommend for any new product development. One quality we have been impressed with is their minimum viable product approach. Looking forward to working on our next project with them.

We engaged Phil and the D2M team to help us fabricate a prototype for our product on an extremely tight timeline. We would thoroughly recommend them to anyone who needs to take their product from idea to prototype!

D2M were and still are a massive help to me. They are full of knowledge of the industry and helped bring my idea to physical product. They re-designed, refined and have thoroughly tested my idea to create something that is functional, aesthetic and realistic to manufacture.

Genius Alert!!! Phil is one of the best start-up consultants you find out there. In contrast to all other start-up consultants you will encounter, Phil has first-hand experience of what it means to raise start-up funding, build the team and navigate the highs and lows of the start-ups.

Today could be the start of your product development journey

Get in touch to share your project with us and we will talk through how we can help your business to deliver commercially successful products. There’s no obligation to work with us – it’s a great starting point.

At D2M, we collaborate closely with your team, delivering agreed outputs efficiently. We function as an outsourced NPD department, driving your product portfolio forward while ensuring key objectives are met. Backed by a wider network of specialists who share our values, we tailor our services to each project to your needs, emphasising adherence to timescales and budget. We only employ senior designers with a minimum of 10 years of commercial experience due to innovative nature of almost all of our projects.

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