Indesign, LLC Gives Back to the Community Through Meals on Wheels

November 23, 2021 | Blog

The team at Indesign, LLC has a long history of community involvement and is proud to continue serving our community. Meals on Wheels is a wonderful organization that we are privileged to work with. Through Meals on Wheels, the Indesign team volunteers to deliver meals to home bound citizens and seniors in our local community. Meals on Wheels is the only provider of medically-tailored meals to Central Indiana’s home bound citizens. (more…)

Engineering a Halloween Costume

October 28, 2021 | Blog

Every year, Indesign, LLC has a fall festival. Traditionally, we have a company Halloween costume contest, office decoration contest, pumpkin carving contest, and trick-or-treating in the office for all family and friends. It is a lot of fun! One of my favorite parts is the giant black cat straddling the office wall. Sorry for the blower fan that ends up on your desk, Sydney. My son has always dressed up as a robot for Halloween (maybe he’ll grow up to be a nerd like me). My wife is a very creative person and makes costumes by hand with the kids, and one year I decided to help in the best way I knew how. I dusted off my old Arduino from back in the day when I wrote firmware for fun instead of for a living. I proudly used this same Arduino to demo one of my personal projects when I interviewed for a job. In this case, for Halloween, I programmed it to display a little Halloween greeting on an LCD. I also wired up some seven-segment LEDs to create a flashing message. Powered by a USB battery pack, it turned out pretty well, and he loved it! Don’t let the serious look on his face fool you. Trust me… he loved it. We made our rounds through the office, collecting way more candy than a responsible parent would allow. There are probably a hundred photos from the fall festival. Everyone always has a blast, and it’s fun to browse through photos of everyone that came and see all the kids’ costumes. After the fall festival at Indesign, we walked around the neighborhood. This is a great memory for me and my family and for the folks at Indesign. Mixing technology with Halloween is only natural for an embedded software engineer, and it made for an extra fun costume and hopefully an enjoyable blog. I’m thankful that I enjoy my job and that I was able to enhance the holiday for my son using the skills I use every day at Indesign. I hope it showed him and the other kids that engineering is fun and creative! Contact Us At Indesign, LLC, our team has the expertise, experience, and passion for engineering and design services. We have helped a variety of markets design and develop embedded electronic products for over 20 years. Our product development process ensures that we deliver high-quality projects on schedule and on budget. If you are interested in learning more about our engineering & design services, contact us today at (317) 377-5450!

Internships at Indesign, LLC

September 30, 2021 | Blog

Indesign,LLC's core asset is our people. We are not a company that makes and sells our own product or provides some niche service. We’re a group of individuals who work together as a close-knit team to bring our clients’ ideas to life. Indesign’s building, labs, and equipment are all important tools of the trade, but it’s the people who are the heart of our company. We believe this is one of the reasons we were voted as Indiana's Top Workplaces for the 11th consecutive year. It's the people of a company who create its culture. Culture can make a place special; it can create an environment that you want to go to and be around every day. Or it can make a place horrible. At Indesign, we’re very proud to have a culture of teamwork, integrity, respect, and excellence. We know that to maintain and grow that type of environment, we’ve got to continuously seek out people who thrive on variety and new ideas. That’s what makes our internship program so important. (more…)

Lessons Learned During 20 Years of Product Development (Part III)

March 25, 2021 | Blog

Creating and sustaining a healthy working culture and team cannot be over-emphasized. During my career, I’ve worked in both healthy and unhealthy environments with highly-functional and dysfunctional team members. Having a vibrant work setting makes all the difference to not only the success of the project but also the personal satisfaction of doing the work. Here are some of the elements that we at Indesign, LLC have implemented and that help create a vigorous place to work. (more…)

Team Communication About Product Development

Lessons Learned During 20 Years of Product Development (and life)

January 29, 2021 | Blog

As one year ends and a new one begins, many people stop and take a moment to reflect on the past. Since the road behind me is longer than the road in front of me, I have collected an array of knowledge through my past experiences. My intent is to share some of the most pragmatic and valuable learnings in hopes that it can help others be more productive. (more…)

Live Virtual Tours at Indesign

November 30, 2020 | Blog

Indesign, like many other companies, has had to adapt in several ways during the coronavirus pandemic. We love having visitors at Indesign, but are currently unable to host guests. We knew early on at the start of the pandemic that it would be important to find a way to host virtually and continue giving tours of our building. We explored some options where tour-takers could click through high-resolution 3D pictures, but this option lacked interaction with Indesigners, which is our favorite part of tours. So we did what engineers do and got creative! (more…)

Working at Indesign, LLC during the COVID-19 Pandemic

October 16, 2020 | Blog

When most members of the Indesign, LLC team started working from home in the middle of March, we were expecting it to be a relatively short term event. However, this did not turn out to be the case, as we are now entering our 7th month of working during COVID-19. Protecting the health of our Indesign team, their families, and our clients has been our primary goal during this period. (more…)

Engineering Excellence with Indesign, LLC’s Core Values

September 25, 2020 | Blog

Sitting on the desk of most Indesigners is a squishy little tire. It may seem an odd shape for a stress ball, but it's more than just something to fidget with while deep in thought. It's there to act as a constant reminder of Indesign's core values, set out helpfully with the four letters in the word T.I.R.E. Below, we'll go through a brief outline of how each of those values supports Indesign's particular strengths through the product development process. (more…)

Indy Star Award - Indesign As Top Places To Work 2020

The Indianapolis Star Names Indesign, LLC a Winner of The Indianapolis Top Workplaces 2020 Award

July 31, 2020 | Blog

Indesign, LLC has been named to the list of Top Workplaces in 2020 by The Indianapolis Star, marking the 10th consecutive year to receive the award. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of any organization. These include alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few. (more…)

The Developers Toolbox

April 22, 2020 | Blog

Tools make the difference. Back when I started working at Indesign, there was a lot to be excited about: a group of engineers who shared my love for building high tech things with the latest technologies, countless cool project teams to join, and oh, so much to learn. But one thing stood out in a way that surprised me. The firmware engineering supply cabinet. As a firmware engineer, I work at the intersection of hardware and software, and one of the fundamental tools in a firmware engineer’s toolbox is the development kit or “dev kit.” A circuit board that’s used to demonstrate the capabilities of an integrated circuit or electronic system. On my first tour, that supply cabinet was like a treasure trove overflowing with my favorite flavor of nerd candy: dev kits, of all kinds, representing countless technological possibilities for all the cool products I would help design. I couldn’t believe it. The feeling of empowerment was almost overwhelming. All that gear to get the job done, at the ready. At the time you might have found dev kits with a microcontroller or a digital signal processor, maybe sensors, and maybe some kind of wireless connectivity like WiFi, cellular, or Bluetooth. Today you might find an NVIDIA Jetson dev kit packed with 512 NVIDIA CUDA cores and 64 Tensor cores. Talk about candy! As the tour continued I was stuck on the supply cabinet. The raw excitement gave way to a humbling assurance: at Indesign, I would have what I need. The physical hardware was easy to recognize, but as time went by I found I was rarely wanting for tools of any kind, hardware or software. I had practically all the software tools I would ever need as well. And oh, we don’t have that? You need it? Let’s talk about getting it. How is this lavish, get-whatever-you-need mode of operation possible? It’s because of the needs of our employees are not their own. They reflect of the needs of our clients, and at Indesign, client satisfaction is our number one priority. It’s the reason for our past success and continued existence. Our primary objective is to give them what they want, and that means our toolbox is constantly stocked with almost anything necessary to make it possible. And you don’t need a sweet tooth to appreciate that. Contact Indesign at (877) 561-0274 to learn more today!

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