Before you begin, here is the link to receive the extra techniques which I mention in the video:
https://lemanoosh.com/wp/start-here/
To say this another way…
The form of your products come from its function. If you do not have ideas, it is probably because you didn’t study the needs of your product in depth. While designing, it’s important to understand its market, what its competitors are doing well, what they are doing wrong, what design elements need to be included in the product, what is your client’s brand identity, the ergonomics, etc, etc… the list can be long.
If you define this well, then the form of your product simply becomes the consequence of your function… and it helps you to create a meaningful “design story” throughout the process.
I know that some product / industrial designers think that they have known this principle of “form follows function” since school, but still, they don’t apply it and they then end up surprised when they can’t build a strong argument for their concepts when presenting to their clients.
In the video above, I give 2 examples of form following function in the design world: