When discussing the topic of certification for a design firm and the process you have to go through there is quite a bit of rigor that goes into creating, maintaining and showing compliance to the quality systems. While that overhead will naturally be absorbed into the hourly rate or retainer, in the long run, certification actually makes things less expensive.

The reason why a design firm, like HS Design of Gladstone, NJ maintains it is because it brings a tremendous amount of value to our clients. Readers may have heard of the term “right the first time.” When you are talking product development, engineers chuckle because there are always multiple design iterations. But there are design iterations and then there are major setbacks.