design Archives - Quality During Design

Timing Reliability in Product Design, with Jeffrey Lewis (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Jeffrey Lewis and Dianna Deeney talk about timing reliability for product development success.

Driving Effective Conversations-Prioritizing and Decision Making at Concept Development and Beyond

We navigate the challenge of prioritizing and decision making to make the crucial trade-off decisions that can make or break your product.

Driving Effective Conversations-Three Major Aspects to Consider for DfX

How do we better design for excellence? We should ask our cross-functional teams about these three major aspects. Knowing why helps.

Driving Effective Conversations-Taking the Lead in Working Meetings

We unravel the importance of communication and self-advocacy in the realm of product design, how to take the lead in working meetings with cross-functional teams to get design inputs.

Exploring Product Development and AI Through Literature: Insights from ‘Loonshots’, ‘AI 2041’, ‘Quit’, and “How Big Things Get Done’ (QDD Book Cast)

Dianna reviews books about product development ideas: Loonshots, AI 2041, Quit, and How Big Things Get Done

Engineering with Receptivity, with Sol Rosenbaum (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Sol Rosenbaum and Dianna Deeney talk about engineering with receptivity: how an openness with others for new impressions leads to success.

Why Yield Quality in the Front-End of Product Development

We want to yield quality in the front-end of product development, to help us do the engineering work that’s important for great designs.

QDD Book Cast

Where do we sometimes need to look for inspiration? Books!
In this QDD Book Cast, we talk about 11 books in 5 different topics that are useful for different perspectives on engineering and design topics.

Getting to Great Designs

We talk about the spectrum of designs (from great to spam), the various customers engineers need to design for, and how engineers can work with their team in getting to great designs.

Always Plot the Data

We don’t just rely on the numbers – we always plot the data! We review how we use plots to look past the numbers and common gotchas.