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Wired writer Clive Thompson becomes a product designer with the help of eMachineShop and documents his project in a short online article today. Most designers already know the drill, but read it for how an average person is caught up in the design process. We can all surely relate.

As I finish each concept, I click a button and up pops a lifelike 3-D view of my design. I spin it around to view it from all angles. Seeing a virtual version of each creation floating in space is very cool. I quickly discover that amateur engineering gives me the same rush as playing a round of Halo. I even lose track of time, obsessively tweaking and refining my guitars until I look up and realize it's way past midnight.

Buy stock in things that keep people awake during their day job while you can. {Photo credit: Brian Berman for Wired.com}