2022 IDSA Informational Podcast

In an IDSA informational podcast, Doug showed thousands of viewers worldwide his unique sketching technique that conceptualizes ideas in a process called rapid vis. He demonstrated sketching techniques using both pencil and paper and Sketchbook Pro on a 20-inch Surface monitor, proceeding to show high-end renderings in Keyshot. Doug’s example was an innovative medical laser design he conceptualized that is now in production.

Doug Patton has always been driven by an intense desire to create in service of elevating humanity. As a Distinguished Alumnus of California State University, Long Beach, Doug founded Patton Design in 1983; for the past three decades, he has created over 300 products in 40 international market categories. Doug’s idealistic ethos has guided his work with several Fortune 500 CEOs in which he has invented visionary concepts, strategies, and products for companies like Apple, Microsoft, Disney, IBM, Time Warner, Mercedes-Benz, Bausch + Lomb, Alcon, and Abbott Medical Optics. He consulted with the USPTO as part of the Patent Public Advisory Committee and was the featured inventor in Simon Cowell’s American Inventor on ABC. Through it all, his passion for creativity has never waned.