Orion Design is framed around Andrew Hunter's product design and engineering practice in Belfast, Northern Ireland: helping teams turn concept ideas into manufacturable products through clearer technical reasoning, better production judgement, and stronger product legitimacy.
Orion Design helps when a product has promise but key decisions are still unresolved: concept direction, product architecture, route to manufacture, assembly burden, sustainability trade-offs, or whether the commercial case is strong enough to continue.
The aim is to make the next decision easier and cheaper: what to prototype, what to simplify, what to validate with suppliers, and where not to commit too early.
Representative product range
The range matters because the same decision patterns appear across sectors: define the product clearly, reduce avoidable complexity, and match development effort to the real opportunity.
Projects where usability, packaging, and product credibility need to sit on top of demanding technical constraints.
Development work that depends on geometry, structure, surface finish, and user behaviour rather than one isolated design task.
Design work that gets stronger when manufacturing assumptions, tooling logic, and assembly implications are made explicit early.
Working style
The strongest product decisions usually happen before tooling, launch spend, or production complexity become hard to reverse.
Expose cost, manufacturability, product value, and lifecycle impact early enough that the product direction can still improve.
Move from concept intent into CAD, prototyping, production planning, and supplier-ready thinking with fewer hidden assumptions.
Use tools and shared decision criteria so founders, engineers, and product teams can discuss the same questions with the same structure.