Your primary job is to perform good design work, but a close second is to make it easy for other people to understand the work you’ve done. Neither of these is trivial, and neither should be underestimated.
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Design for the Ordinary
Designing for the ordinary might sound boring but it may be just as important as designing for the extraordinary.
The Library of Babel: From Gibberish to Defined Design
There are an infinite number of possible designs. How can designers choose the right combination of materials, geometries, and processes to achieve the best outcome?
Book Review of "Product Development - Principles and Tools for Creating Desirable and Transferable Designs"
The recently published book “Product Development: Principles and Tools for Creating Desirable and Transferable Designs” is a unique addition to design resources available to students and engineering professionals interested in evolving their design ideas from the early stages of opportunity development all the way through to production.
Mother Nature – The Perfect Engineer
When gathering inspiration for your designs, consider doing so from nature. After all, nature is the perfect engineer.
Seeds of Failure
To have any hope of success, the following three issues should be focused on simultaneously during and from the beginning of product development. Don’t leave them to chance and don’t ignore them.
Ambiguity and Design Freedom
Without ambiguity, there is no design freedom, no decision-making, and no design. Therefore, we should embrace ambiguity and consider it our job as designers to thrive in that environment.