usability 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.

Information Development in Design, with Scott Abel – Part 2 (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Scott Abel and Dianna Deeney talk about information development; how experts in this field are an integral part of product design.

Information Development in Design, with Scott Abel – Part 1 (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Scott Abel and Dianna Deeney talk about the latest practices in information development management and how it leads to product design success.

Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development

We summarize teamwork Design Engineers can use for concept development of a design. This is the final and 7th part of a podcast series.

Brainstorming within Design Sprints

We explore some take-aways about team brainwork through a Design Sprint, a method to develop a design concept with a team in 5 working days.

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.

Product Design from a Marketing Viewpoint, with Laura Krick (A Chat with Cross Functional Experts)

This interview focuses on product design from a marketing viewpoint, including sales and commercial operations. “A Talk with Cross Functional Experts” is a Quality during Design interview series. Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team for new product development. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products,…

Quality related to Reliability and Safety

Overlapping Ideas: Quality, Reliability, and Safety

What is the intercept of quality and safety? How concerned do we need to be about quality while we’re determining root causes?

Risk Barriers as Swiss Cheese?

There’s a model that can help us visualize and consider the different barriers to harm: The Swiss Cheese Model of Accident Causation. Learn what makes up this model and how ideas are represented. There are also different ways that the model is being used today. How can we design for controls, policies, or actions that are part of the use of our product but outside of our control?

Mistake-Proofing – the Poka-Yoke of Usability

How do we go about mistake-proofing our product design? As we’re looking at our user process, we can use a quality method that’s well-used in manufacturing production: poka-yoke (mistake-proof).