Ideas Well Done is an independent development company that conceives, designs and develops new products. With expertise in collaborative problem solving and development knowledge, Ideas Well Done brings insight, creativity, and innovation to all their products.

It’s the process of creating new, innovative products that solve problems and create new markets that drives us. On projects for clients or our own internal projects, the process of solving problems is the key to creating opportunities.

To guide us we have defined four "pillars" as the foundation of the business. These pillars are Food, Water, Sanitation and Waste. We’ll do things outside the pillars, but the pillars are the first area of judgment. Does an idea fit something where we already have expertise, where we already have a defined market, where we have knowledge and expertise, or where we already have people that fit within those categories?

I think all design firms use the processes of brain-storming for "ideation," and then refine ideas based on different filtering techniques. We do the same, taking ideas through a process of prototyping, testing, and refinement. This process changes all the time. Some manufacturing friends have started calling Ideas Well Done a "think tank." I don't think that really fits, but perhaps we could be labeled as a "think and do" tank.

The team at Ideas Well Done includes people with backgrounds in engineering, project management, fabrication, prototyping, research and marketing. Everyone collaborates and presents individual strengths to the team process. We do our own prototype creation, engineering, 3D modeling, prototyping and testing. We create engineering, design, materials and manufacturing specifications. We take a concept from initial idea, all the way to full manufacturing documentation.