Quality during Design Newsletter
The Quality during Design Newsletter is for product designers, engineers, and anyone else who cares about creating high-quality products. Quality during Design is a philosophy that emphasizes the benefits of cross-functional team involvement in design. It's also a methodology that uses quality tools to refine design concepts early. Whether you're a seasoned designer or just starting out, looking to improve your existing designs or start from scratch, Quality during Design is for you.
New Podcast: Engage and Inform with New Presentation Techniques
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Can the way you present technical information drastically impact decision-making? Absolutely. In this week's podcast episode, we explore transformative methods that can elevate your technical presentations to a whole new level. Instead of relying on lifeless bullet points, the assertion evidence model encourages you to make clear recommendations at the top of each slide, coupled with...
What are new ways to engage customers?
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. I traveled by car, bus, and train to make it to the ASME technical conferences in Washinton, D.C. earlier in the week. Design Justice was a big topic. These design processes are moving the designer away from the center of the design. Design Justice aims to incorporate the user into the design process and design decisions. It's a paid position. It's different from Design for Usability....
Mastering priorities with the Kano Model
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. How do you balance customer wants with project constraints? If your customer-facing teammates are saying our customers want this, that and the other thing, which ones do we prioritize over others? Not all features are equal in the eyes of our customers. And not all features are value-added, either. In this week's episode/blog post, we delve into how to prioritize customer wants using...
Confluence of risks changes a record-breaking viaduct into a skywalk
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. To me, this scenic park is a lesson in risk.The massive Kinzua Viaduct was a testament to engineering. The bridge was built in the 1880s/1900s in northern Pennsylvania from steel forged in southeastern PA. "It was once the world's highest and longest rail viaduct."It was destroyed in 2003 by a tornado. The more complete story is that a massive maintenance project had begun by crews...
What if they say, "No"?
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Dori Clark is a business professor and author. She talks about being strategic with our time and priorities. One of the points she makes is for us to say "no" to meetings where we don't need to be, doing things we don't need to do. Many people use an urgent/important matrix to prioritize tasks, mapping it out or doing a quick mental assessment. What does that mean for us? We should do...
What color economy do you work in?
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. I'm preparing for the upcoming RMMR Conference next week. RMMR = Reliability, Maintenance, and Managing Risk. I am presenting, which takes a lot of preparation. In addition, I'm looking forward to meeting new people and catching up with some folks that I enjoyed talking with last time. One of the reasons I like conferences is meeting others who are working on a variety of projects in...
Effective Team Meetings: From Chaos to Cohesion
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Asking a project team to a meeting to discuss new ideas and make decisions? Working meetings can be hard. FMEA meetings can be harder! No matter the topic, I've learned that great facilitators in quality, business, project management, and new product development take similar approaches to creative teamwork. Add quality tools to that approach, and you've got a way to have productive...
Ideas with others: a Chief Engineer shares advice
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Part of our mission at Quality during Design is to get cross-functional teams together during concept development for design input. In that spirit, we're sharing with you some best practices to facilitate meetings and move toward actionable ideas. In this archive episode, we talk with Emily Haidemenos. She's a Chief Engineer and Six-Sigma Black Belt working in product design...
Getting good at quality for your designs
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Not long ago, I came across a new term for me: quality assistance. I hadn't heard it in my quality circles, so I decided to investigate. This reminded me of some conversations with others about quality control and quality assurance. They were asking, "What is the difference?" Add all the talk about Quality 4.0 and Industry 4.0, terms which many are loudly adopting, and I figured......
The Fundamental Thing to Know from Statistics for Design Engineering
This weekly newsletter shares resources for product designers (since 2021), brought to you by Dianna Deeney. Last week we talked about probabilities. Still lingering in statistical topics, let's take a quiz: What statistical concept is used in these design activities? DOE (design of experiments) Sampling Test results analysis Gage R&R studies Test method validations SPC (with some rules in monitoring changes in a process) Whatever it is, it sounds amazing to know! You probably already know...
The Quality during Design Newsletter is for product designers, engineers, and anyone else who cares about creating high-quality products. Quality during Design is a philosophy that emphasizes the benefits of cross-functional team involvement in design. It's also a methodology that uses quality tools to refine design concepts early. Whether you're a seasoned designer or just starting out, looking to improve your existing designs or start from scratch, Quality during Design is for you.