Plenty of good ideas die between the prototype and the first production run. This course is about that gap.
We work through the sequence: defining the problem tightly enough to know when it is solved, sketching and selecting between concepts, prototyping at the fidelity the question actually requires, and then design for manufacture — which usually means discovering that the elegant version cannot be made affordably and deciding what to change.
Costing is treated seriously, because it is where projects fail quietly. Unit cost at realistic volumes, tooling that has to be amortised, and — this being Nigeria — landed cost on imported components, where duty and clearing routinely add far more than people budget for.
We finish on the decisions that kill projects late: when to freeze a design, when to abandon one, and how to tell the difference.
This is the course for innovation hubs, university entrepreneurship programmes and companies with an R&D function that has never shipped anything.