The world's most popular textbook on product design and development.

The 8th Edition
featuring a new chapter on Agile Product Development

Ulrich, Karl T., Eppinger, Steve D., and Yang, Maria C., Product Design and Development. 8th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2026.

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Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Product Development Process and Organization
3. Opportunity Identification
4. Product Planning
5. Identifying Customer Needs
6. Product Specifications
7. Concept Generation
8. Concept Selection
9. Concept Testing
10. Product Architecture
11. ​Industrial Design
12. Design for Environment
13. ​Design for Manufacturing and Supply Chain ​
14. Prototyping
15. ​Robust Design
16. ​​Patents and Intellectual Property
17. ​Service Design
18. ​Product Development Economics
19. ​Agile Project Management​