Inside an Inspiring Computer Design Studio _ In Win Case Studio Tour

**Market Analysis and Feedback**

The market is looking for some kind of volume to make it make any sense to manufacture a product. They are really looking for genuine honest feedback, as they want to know if anyone is interested in purchasing a particular item. The idea is to post comments upvote each other and share the feedback with Inman, who will then read it and see what the interest is.

**Product Showcase**

We have two new products to showcase today, both of which are part of the POC series. These products feature unique coloring schemes that are inspired by different themes, including space capsule-esque designs and breath of the wild-inspired patterns. The first product features a sleek and modern design with gray and white colors, while the second product has a more vibrant color scheme with orange and black accents.

**Manufacturing Process**

The manufacturing process for these products is an important aspect to consider when evaluating their value and appeal. Inman asked how long it takes to get from concept to prototype, and was told that it can take anywhere from three months to six months depending on the complexity of the project. The production team works together closely to bring a product to life, with input from multiple individuals including designers, engineers, and artists.

**Product Tour**

We took a tour of the manufacturing facility today, which gave us a unique glimpse into how these products are made. We saw examples of different materials being used, such as wood and leather, and learned about the importance of ventilation in modern flow-through designs. The team was receptive to feedback and willing to make changes based on input from customers.

**Design Philosophy**

The design philosophy behind these products is centered around creativity and innovation. The company encourages experimentation and exploration, and provides a space for designers to work on new ideas and projects. We saw shelves of books and samples in the design room, which suggested a commitment to creativity and self-expression.

**Factory Tour Series**

We are planning a series of factory tours that will showcase the manufacturing process for different companies. These tours will give readers a behind-the-scenes look at how products are made, and highlight the importance of innovation and experimentation in the industry. We hope to continue this series in the future, and invite our community to subscribe to our channel or support us on Patreon to make it possible.

**Conclusion**

Overall, we were impressed by the creativity and innovation that went into designing these products. The manufacturing process was efficient and effective, and the team was receptive to feedback and willing to make changes based on customer input. We hope that this tour has given readers a better understanding of how products are made, and will continue to explore the intersection of technology and design in our upcoming factory tours.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe contrast between this grungy efficient computer Factory with its imposing machinery and winding passages and this Creative Design Center feels like two entirely different companies but both are part of in-win and often overlooks computer part manufacturer that's been in business for 38 years now everyone reports on new computer parts as they're announced but the minute we walk past inwinds inspirational Design Center on our way to the conference room to cover the new products we completely derailed the meeting and knew we had the ship's focus of our story to the people Concept in hand building and prototyping the products right next door and cover their environment instead we'll cover the new stuff as always like this wood emblazoned Mini ITX chassis and these uniquely colored Mini ITX and full ATX cases but this unique opportunity allows us a look at mid-build unreleased Concepts like this megalith of a computer case while also learning about an important and Untold aspect of the industry the teams of passionate individuals exploring new and unique ideas and doing their best to bring them from paper sketches to life and this opportunity for a behind the scenes tour today is one that we're excited about and follows our recent goals of telling stories of the people in the industry and how we get the products we get this is inwinds Design Center and this is the team before that this video is brought to you by thermal Grizzly and the cryo sheet graphene pads these cryo sheets are molecularly stacked on the z-axis to encourage vertical direct thermal transfer from the IHS to the cooler cryo sheet pads are made to be easily applicable for a thermal interface and completely avoid Pace dry out because it's not paced it makes them particularly useful for lawn service life systems with minimal maintenance they come in multiple sizes for suitability on the most common laptops and desktop CPUs and you can learn more at the thermal Grizzly cryo sheets at the link in the description below we're in the design Center for inwind for some other more interesting products and we always we talk about products as they exist on the market all the time stuff like this and some of these are still coming out but what we don't normally get to show is how they're made and how they're concepted so inwin has all kinds of cool stuff they have some laser cut mock-ups we're going to go over they additionally have some crazy projects coming up for trade shows and a lot of handmade stuff or custom-made things for prototyping and Rapid discovery of how they want to go about designing a product gives you more of an insight into how things are actually concepted and brought to life as computer hardware and we really wanted to shoot in the design center here as soon as we saw it instead of the more traditional sort of conference room shot because rather than Focus only on the products we got to tell more of the story of how they come to actually get created so we're going to walk around a little bit and do a tour of the Design Center and then we'll show some of the new things that are coming out as well like these are coming out at computex this is the dubalee series they have the POC or the pox series there's a new pock one they have this massive project on the ground which this is not as I understand it's supposed to be for retail but it's using modular components that inwin already sells to create basically a chandelier of computers so we're going to go over all that starting on this side just as a quick overview of the room so you can see all the inspiration for design back here where they have all different types of art from different uh movies or features or anime or whatever it may be to inspire design language for what inwin's working on and there's a little bit of a story for everything we're going to come back to this this is the new pock one this is a pot case as well but let's hop over to this side so on this side of the design studio there's we actually have a really cool shot of the artists going through some of the drawings so these like hand drawings original concepts for cases and products that eventually came out let's jump to there we go some actual hand drawings the way this works in terms of process is the team lead will come to the team and give a general concept so they might say something like we want a series called mod free that is going to pursue a more modular approach or something where the user builds their own case and a system and once the lead gives that concept to the team the designers and the artists start working together to rapidly concept on paper traditionally like this and when we asked why paper rather than say 3D software or something the answer is pretty simple it was because it's faster and you get the idea from your head onto the sheet right away and then start moving on the more abstract modern form of art through computer software so this was really cool to see because we don't normally get to see actual drawings and early concepts of cases and in fact all around this room there's stuff just like that so over here for example some of you may remember our coverage at computex years ago our CES where Inland had the winbot which is one of their big weird extravagant cases that's just designed to get get attention from people walking by so this is actually a piece from the shipping crate and the designer works here at this station and has a massive drawing tablet by the way this is super nice I don't know if that's that's a wacon tablet and so they've got the drawn win bot on the actual piece of shipping so you can see kind of how in-win works not just from a technical capacity and designing specs coming up with how do we make it hit some price Target how do we do bombless control and cost control they also look at the artist side first and coming up with the concept and there's some really cool stuff over here so especially these items this is the first stage of coming up with the product so I will come back to this one in a moment I haven't actually got a candle as well uh this is just some laser cut I think basically cardboard I don't know the exact I think it's just cardboard but they have these different Scale Models I don't know how to refold this but different scale models of the cases that they make prior to actually going through any kind of more advanced sampling or prototyping so before we get into say potentially 3D printing or into cutting metals to start forming additional panels they do this get a feel for the size of the product where the motherboard tray might be where the video card compartment might be power supply location and go from there now this is another really cool thing this is actually just supposed to be a souvenir so I think they're giving these out to some visitors at their computex Booth this year but you can see it's a mini Pock case that you can actually build and fold yourself the whole concepts for the POC line of cases is that it ships flat packed actually I think we have they take it oh there's one over there so it ships flat packed and something like this and then you build it yourself fold the pieces and if we get a shot of this yellow one right here you can see how the triangles are bent out and that's something that the user does as well so you can get your airflow by bending the triangles in whatever pattern you want and that's kind of the concept for these they make them in a lot of different colors and it gives something a little bit more unique kind of like we've talked about with Justin in the past with the video card design or it's moving away from our traditional standard sort of boring but functional ATX or ITX into something with a bit more character which I think this room reflects really well so if Vitale wants to grab a shot of those two cases with the case monsters on front we called it the Lego case that's what this is except it's got different designs and we're talking with and when about how they might further customize this by working with say large IPS and Brands and things like that there's so much here to talk about over here uh actually let's move let's show a product let's show something they're actually working on this is pretty cool too this is a good reuse of an existing concept so this is part of the mod free series mod free is a modular computer case where you can combine power supply module with a motherboard module for the base of the case and with fan modules and things like that you buy however many you need and you can construct something like this for example in a more traditional layout where you end up with a full tower system it's got some fan modules here one one down here power supply module of course and this power supply module if we get kind of a close-up here you can see the shape of it is just this rectangle at the back to contain the power supply and what inwin did was take this and then throw some panels on it so this is the power supply module without the rest of the computer or the power supply they threw some panels on it and they made this which is the mod free mini and this is a new Direction and one's been trying to go where they're really experimenting with different materials so this one's mostly steel but it's got some wood mixed in you can see the wood panel in here these bars and in one actually did the wood thing before fractile did to my knowledge several years ago at one of the trade shows I don't remember those products ever came to Market or not but we showed them in one of our videos and this uh obviously if you like the fractal North then this has kind of in a similar vein although I think the argument has yet to be determined on who did it first so this is one of the new things they're actually making I don't have a price or anything yet but you've got the idea for it as for something that's not a product but it's just really cool this massive thing so this is um four full sets of modules so it's it's the mod free series and they're building a chandelier and so we were in here while the team was assembling this earlier doing all the cable management very nicely it's got full systems four of them so there's uh one here one here one here one here and it has sets of power supply and fan modules and I combine it all in the center I think is mostly going to be used for suspending it from the ceiling of the booth and also getting a bunch of LEDs and lighting and things like that and actually on that screen next to me here there is a 3D rendering of their concept for this which is still coming into creation and uh just for perspective we are filming on Friday before the show the show officially starts on Tuesday and I asked and when does it normally come in this type for the show is it are you normally coming in hot like this the answer was yes it's pretty much always like this they started this first camp with the idea in April it is currently May 26th and they've been working on it ever since trying to get it to fruition and I mean you can see it's gigantic now this isn't something they're going to sell I think what they're trying to show is you can do crazy things like this if you wanted to without custom necessarily custom making anything just bolt in a bunch of the mod free stuff together as it is this is some of the new series of cases and these are actually some of these drawings were in those art books I was showing a second ago and this is how they actually came to fruition or finalized those products it's another one where they're playing around with different materials so there's leather handle options like expansions you can buy there's these pillars on the sides varying Heights to get the handle this is aluminum this is the leather material and this is where you can come in as an audience so we talked to inwin and there is a finalized version of this that's a more white and silver color we have a bunch of b-roll up we can drop in and then there's these which are new and this one the champagne color in one is not sure what the market interest is in this color combination and I told them there's at least one customer for champagne color products and as Jensen Juan at Nvidia because he launched a CEO Edition I think it was Titan card in the past and it was champagne and that was the whole thing it also had extra vram so if you want extra vram you have to buy that Edition but they want to know do people actually want this set of colors because to just throw it out there on the market you have to hit some kind of volume to make it make any sense to manufacture and uh they're really looking for genuine honest feedback I don't think anyone's feelings are gonna hurt be hurt if you just say no I'm not interested or yes I am so post your comments upvote each other and the people from Inman are gonna read it and see what the interest is those are more standard gray coloring and then this is actually a mod free case back here which is the one we were looking at a second ago except with panel strapped to it and it honestly looks really cool I like the orange and black and white coloring they've got kind of hard to show up but they've got the text here on the sides it looks almost space capsule-esque and designed kind of like the Orion X these are the park or the POC series they just do a lot of really cool coloring with this this has been announced in the past so CES they're showing some of this stuff we just haven't gotten a chance to see it in person uh and it's the same type of design so that's the one that I was showing that ships flat packed you assemble it you get a bunch of cool colors and there's one to the left of our camera right now that's got almost breath of the wild coloring for uh people who want to skate the line of it looks Zelda enough without being IP infringement so uh as for the last piece of new product we're going to show that originated in this room and by the way we're asking them how long does it take to get through the process and the answer was uh three months at the fastest to get from concept to prototype to upwards of six months depending on the complexity of the project and how hard it is to bring it together so that's this is the POC one not this this is the previous one the puck one is also flat like this and so what n1's doing once again different materials they've got like woods and leathers and things like that and the piece is fold and it ships like this you assemble it and can bend it into the patterns that end up resulting in one of these where there's the wood paneling they've still got the protective stuff on there so you know looks looks uh like it's out of the box so you don't get to see exactly what it's like we probably had some feedback on this I did have one critique which was the air comes in here and then it pushes the air this way it's like really a male PCB um for video cards that have vertical fin stack like this they exhaust straight into the panel here and uh and straight into a wall on the other side and then for flow through design it'll hit a wall here and so our feedback and one was extremely receptive to this which was awesome to see was if you want to do something like this that's fine try to drill some ventilation in here and uh on this side behind the card try to get some ventilation where um it can escape somehow so you might have to play around with a motherboard positioning or something but for the modern flow through designs same thing on the other side they were very receptive which is awesome to see that uh leather straps here for all this wood handles and that's the case so regardless of sort of the products which are always interesting to look at and that's the main thing that gets us to visit manufacturers what we're trying to show lately is more of the story of how do they make the things they make and who are the people that make them so this room I just walked around basically the whole thing you saw all of it it has nine people who work here about and that Team Works closely where it's not any one person's individual project they work together where as I said earlier the direction kind of comes from someone who's got a general concept and a market idea and then the Team figures out how do we piece that together from the artist to the mechanical engineers people doing rapid prototyping and to the people doing the final product design and management so really cool design room it was awesome to see this I mean even small stuff like shelves of books and samples uh and all this kind of stuff I've got a book there called Detroit cars for example so lots of just random things to give ideas and provide really creative space and super cool to be here very insightful and check back probably for our factory tour series if you want to see more like this but that's it for this one thanks for watching subscribe for more go to store.gamersaccess.net or patreon.com Gamers Nexus to help us with this kind of coverage because we self-fund all of it we don't get paid by manufacturers to do these tours we do the tours because we think they're cool and interesting and our community makes them possible thank you for watching we'll see you all next timethe contrast between this grungy efficient computer Factory with its imposing machinery and winding passages and this Creative Design Center feels like two entirely different companies but both are part of in-win and often overlooks computer part manufacturer that's been in business for 38 years now everyone reports on new computer parts as they're announced but the minute we walk past inwinds inspirational Design Center on our way to the conference room to cover the new products we completely derailed the meeting and knew we had the ship's focus of our story to the people Concept in hand building and prototyping the products right next door and cover their environment instead we'll cover the new stuff as always like this wood emblazoned Mini ITX chassis and these uniquely colored Mini ITX and full ATX cases but this unique opportunity allows us a look at mid-build unreleased Concepts like this megalith of a computer case while also learning about an important and Untold aspect of the industry the teams of passionate individuals exploring new and unique ideas and doing their best to bring them from paper sketches to life and this opportunity for a behind the scenes tour today is one that we're excited about and follows our recent goals of telling stories of the people in the industry and how we get the products we get this is inwinds Design Center and this is the team before that this video is brought to you by thermal Grizzly and the cryo sheet graphene pads these cryo sheets are molecularly stacked on the z-axis to encourage vertical direct thermal transfer from the IHS to the cooler cryo sheet pads are made to be easily applicable for a thermal interface and completely avoid Pace dry out because it's not paced it makes them particularly useful for lawn service life systems with minimal maintenance they come in multiple sizes for suitability on the most common laptops and desktop CPUs and you can learn more at the thermal Grizzly cryo sheets at the link in the description below we're in the design Center for inwind for some other more interesting products and we always we talk about products as they exist on the market all the time stuff like this and some of these are still coming out but what we don't normally get to show is how they're made and how they're concepted so inwin has all kinds of cool stuff they have some laser cut mock-ups we're going to go over they additionally have some crazy projects coming up for trade shows and a lot of handmade stuff or custom-made things for prototyping and Rapid discovery of how they want to go about designing a product gives you more of an insight into how things are actually concepted and brought to life as computer hardware and we really wanted to shoot in the design center here as soon as we saw it instead of the more traditional sort of conference room shot because rather than Focus only on the products we got to tell more of the story of how they come to actually get created so we're going to walk around a little bit and do a tour of the Design Center and then we'll show some of the new things that are coming out as well like these are coming out at computex this is the dubalee series they have the POC or the pox series there's a new pock one they have this massive project on the ground which this is not as I understand it's supposed to be for retail but it's using modular components that inwin already sells to create basically a chandelier of computers so we're going to go over all that starting on this side just as a quick overview of the room so you can see all the inspiration for design back here where they have all different types of art from different uh movies or features or anime or whatever it may be to inspire design language for what inwin's working on and there's a little bit of a story for everything we're going to come back to this this is the new pock one this is a pot case as well but let's hop over to this side so on this side of the design studio there's we actually have a really cool shot of the artists going through some of the drawings so these like hand drawings original concepts for cases and products that eventually came out let's jump to there we go some actual hand drawings the way this works in terms of process is the team lead will come to the team and give a general concept so they might say something like we want a series called mod free that is going to pursue a more modular approach or something where the user builds their own case and a system and once the lead gives that concept to the team the designers and the artists start working together to rapidly concept on paper traditionally like this and when we asked why paper rather than say 3D software or something the answer is pretty simple it was because it's faster and you get the idea from your head onto the sheet right away and then start moving on the more abstract modern form of art through computer software so this was really cool to see because we don't normally get to see actual drawings and early concepts of cases and in fact all around this room there's stuff just like that so over here for example some of you may remember our coverage at computex years ago our CES where Inland had the winbot which is one of their big weird extravagant cases that's just designed to get get attention from people walking by so this is actually a piece from the shipping crate and the designer works here at this station and has a massive drawing tablet by the way this is super nice I don't know if that's that's a wacon tablet and so they've got the drawn win bot on the actual piece of shipping so you can see kind of how in-win works not just from a technical capacity and designing specs coming up with how do we make it hit some price Target how do we do bombless control and cost control they also look at the artist side first and coming up with the concept and there's some really cool stuff over here so especially these items this is the first stage of coming up with the product so I will come back to this one in a moment I haven't actually got a candle as well uh this is just some laser cut I think basically cardboard I don't know the exact I think it's just cardboard but they have these different Scale Models I don't know how to refold this but different scale models of the cases that they make prior to actually going through any kind of more advanced sampling or prototyping so before we get into say potentially 3D printing or into cutting metals to start forming additional panels they do this get a feel for the size of the product where the motherboard tray might be where the video card compartment might be power supply location and go from there now this is another really cool thing this is actually just supposed to be a souvenir so I think they're giving these out to some visitors at their computex Booth this year but you can see it's a mini Pock case that you can actually build and fold yourself the whole concepts for the POC line of cases is that it ships flat packed actually I think we have they take it oh there's one over there so it ships flat packed and something like this and then you build it yourself fold the pieces and if we get a shot of this yellow one right here you can see how the triangles are bent out and that's something that the user does as well so you can get your airflow by bending the triangles in whatever pattern you want and that's kind of the concept for these they make them in a lot of different colors and it gives something a little bit more unique kind of like we've talked about with Justin in the past with the video card design or it's moving away from our traditional standard sort of boring but functional ATX or ITX into something with a bit more character which I think this room reflects really well so if Vitale wants to grab a shot of those two cases with the case monsters on front we called it the Lego case that's what this is except it's got different designs and we're talking with and when about how they might further customize this by working with say large IPS and Brands and things like that there's so much here to talk about over here uh actually let's move let's show a product let's show something they're actually working on this is pretty cool too this is a good reuse of an existing concept so this is part of the mod free series mod free is a modular computer case where you can combine power supply module with a motherboard module for the base of the case and with fan modules and things like that you buy however many you need and you can construct something like this for example in a more traditional layout where you end up with a full tower system it's got some fan modules here one one down here power supply module of course and this power supply module if we get kind of a close-up here you can see the shape of it is just this rectangle at the back to contain the power supply and what inwin did was take this and then throw some panels on it so this is the power supply module without the rest of the computer or the power supply they threw some panels on it and they made this which is the mod free mini and this is a new Direction and one's been trying to go where they're really experimenting with different materials so this one's mostly steel but it's got some wood mixed in you can see the wood panel in here these bars and in one actually did the wood thing before fractile did to my knowledge several years ago at one of the trade shows I don't remember those products ever came to Market or not but we showed them in one of our videos and this uh obviously if you like the fractal North then this has kind of in a similar vein although I think the argument has yet to be determined on who did it first so this is one of the new things they're actually making I don't have a price or anything yet but you've got the idea for it as for something that's not a product but it's just really cool this massive thing so this is um four full sets of modules so it's it's the mod free series and they're building a chandelier and so we were in here while the team was assembling this earlier doing all the cable management very nicely it's got full systems four of them so there's uh one here one here one here one here and it has sets of power supply and fan modules and I combine it all in the center I think is mostly going to be used for suspending it from the ceiling of the booth and also getting a bunch of LEDs and lighting and things like that and actually on that screen next to me here there is a 3D rendering of their concept for this which is still coming into creation and uh just for perspective we are filming on Friday before the show the show officially starts on Tuesday and I asked and when does it normally come in this type for the show is it are you normally coming in hot like this the answer was yes it's pretty much always like this they started this first camp with the idea in April it is currently May 26th and they've been working on it ever since trying to get it to fruition and I mean you can see it's gigantic now this isn't something they're going to sell I think what they're trying to show is you can do crazy things like this if you wanted to without custom necessarily custom making anything just bolt in a bunch of the mod free stuff together as it is this is some of the new series of cases and these are actually some of these drawings were in those art books I was showing a second ago and this is how they actually came to fruition or finalized those products it's another one where they're playing around with different materials so there's leather handle options like expansions you can buy there's these pillars on the sides varying Heights to get the handle this is aluminum this is the leather material and this is where you can come in as an audience so we talked to inwin and there is a finalized version of this that's a more white and silver color we have a bunch of b-roll up we can drop in and then there's these which are new and this one the champagne color in one is not sure what the market interest is in this color combination and I told them there's at least one customer for champagne color products and as Jensen Juan at Nvidia because he launched a CEO Edition I think it was Titan card in the past and it was champagne and that was the whole thing it also had extra vram so if you want extra vram you have to buy that Edition but they want to know do people actually want this set of colors because to just throw it out there on the market you have to hit some kind of volume to make it make any sense to manufacture and uh they're really looking for genuine honest feedback I don't think anyone's feelings are gonna hurt be hurt if you just say no I'm not interested or yes I am so post your comments upvote each other and the people from Inman are gonna read it and see what the interest is those are more standard gray coloring and then this is actually a mod free case back here which is the one we were looking at a second ago except with panel strapped to it and it honestly looks really cool I like the orange and black and white coloring they've got kind of hard to show up but they've got the text here on the sides it looks almost space capsule-esque and designed kind of like the Orion X these are the park or the POC series they just do a lot of really cool coloring with this this has been announced in the past so CES they're showing some of this stuff we just haven't gotten a chance to see it in person uh and it's the same type of design so that's the one that I was showing that ships flat packed you assemble it you get a bunch of cool colors and there's one to the left of our camera right now that's got almost breath of the wild coloring for uh people who want to skate the line of it looks Zelda enough without being IP infringement so uh as for the last piece of new product we're going to show that originated in this room and by the way we're asking them how long does it take to get through the process and the answer was uh three months at the fastest to get from concept to prototype to upwards of six months depending on the complexity of the project and how hard it is to bring it together so that's this is the POC one not this this is the previous one the puck one is also flat like this and so what n1's doing once again different materials they've got like woods and leathers and things like that and the piece is fold and it ships like this you assemble it and can bend it into the patterns that end up resulting in one of these where there's the wood paneling they've still got the protective stuff on there so you know looks looks uh like it's out of the box so you don't get to see exactly what it's like we probably had some feedback on this I did have one critique which was the air comes in here and then it pushes the air this way it's like really a male PCB um for video cards that have vertical fin stack like this they exhaust straight into the panel here and uh and straight into a wall on the other side and then for flow through design it'll hit a wall here and so our feedback and one was extremely receptive to this which was awesome to see was if you want to do something like this that's fine try to drill some ventilation in here and uh on this side behind the card try to get some ventilation where um it can escape somehow so you might have to play around with a motherboard positioning or something but for the modern flow through designs same thing on the other side they were very receptive which is awesome to see that uh leather straps here for all this wood handles and that's the case so regardless of sort of the products which are always interesting to look at and that's the main thing that gets us to visit manufacturers what we're trying to show lately is more of the story of how do they make the things they make and who are the people that make them so this room I just walked around basically the whole thing you saw all of it it has nine people who work here about and that Team Works closely where it's not any one person's individual project they work together where as I said earlier the direction kind of comes from someone who's got a general concept and a market idea and then the Team figures out how do we piece that together from the artist to the mechanical engineers people doing rapid prototyping and to the people doing the final product design and management so really cool design room it was awesome to see this I mean even small stuff like shelves of books and samples uh and all this kind of stuff I've got a book there called Detroit cars for example so lots of just random things to give ideas and provide really creative space and super cool to be here very insightful and check back probably for our factory tour series if you want to see more like this but that's it for this one thanks for watching subscribe for more go to store.gamersaccess.net or patreon.com Gamers Nexus to help us with this kind of coverage because we self-fund all of it we don't get paid by manufacturers to do these tours we do the tours because we think they're cool and interesting and our community makes them possible thank you for watching we'll see you all next time\n"