Mouser has brought out an e-book called Designing an Idea, the first title from the newest series Designing Big Ideas in Mouser’s  Empowering Innovation Together programme.

The new e-book provides an in-depth look at how innovators move from the first spark of inspiration to product design to the first steps of production.

Designing an Idea begins with a foreword by Skullcandy Chief Product Officer Jeffrey L. Hutchings, who examines how the path from idea to product is changing, with expanded access to tools and resources presenting organizations and individuals with new, more affordable routes to production.

Contributors to the e-book include Bob Martin, “Wizard of Make” and Senior Staff Engineer at Microchip Technology; Josh Lifton, Ph.D. graduate of the MIT Media Lab and co-founder and president of Crowd Supply; and Dr. Andy Stanford-Clark, CTO of IBM in UK and Ireland.

The book also includes an innovation-to-productization model that can help technology creators improve their chances of success.

The Engineering Big Ideas series is supported by Mouser suppliers ADI, Intel, Microchip and Molex.

“The road from idea to product can be arduous and filled with obstacles, but new technologies are opening up new and quicker paths,” says Mouser’s Kevin Hess, “the Engineering Big Ideas series begins with a look at how innovators develop their concepts and where they go from there.”

Mouser recently launched the Engineering Big Ideas series with a video that followed celebrity engineer Grant Imahara as he visited the Arizona test track of Nikola Motor Company. There, he spoke with CEO Trevor Milton about how Nikola Motor Company is bringing its vision for hybrid truck design to market, and revolutionizing the economic and environmental impact of commerce in the process.

The Empowering Innovation Together programme has highlighted a range of developments from IoT and smart cities of the future to robotics technologies.

To learn more about this and all of Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together series, visitwww.mouser.com/empowering-innovation and follow Mouser on Facebook and Twitter.