metal plastic etc and manufactured by a third party vendor for example by injection molding milling cutting welding binding or other types of assembly based on a design template or modified design the website for the design software application may include a webpage for industry engineers or other problem solvers to propose to the website 39 s user community any particularly vexing problem or design request which is followed by allowing users to design and propose solutions individually or in groups the website for the design software application may include an interface accessible to industry engineers whereby an engineer could upload the schematic design of an entire article to include the breakdown of its parts to allow users a to re design the article b propose new changes c to design around multiple existing problems or d to allow others in the industry to include users to license or purchase the article 39 s design schematic the collaborative design software application may be configured such that the user may charge a fee for the user 39 s services and or the industry engineer may offer for purchase or license the aforementioned re design as described above the collaborative design software application may be configured to charge a fee e g a flat fee and or a percentage to either the user and or the industry engineer for facilitating the transaction the website for collaborative design software application may include a webpage that serves as a learning tool allowing users using the collaborative design software application to design a product which accomplishes a pre defined task to test based on number of parts used cost of total parts used etc and to assemble and disassemble an article in a.