Posts Tagged ‘user process’
Get Design Inputs with Flowcharts
How do we get design inputs from flowcharting? Let’s talk about flowcharting as one method for engineering to gather design inputs.
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Lessons Learned from Coffee Pod Stories
We explore a public consumer complaint and upset and imagine how it MAY have been avoided from the beginning from a product design standpoint.
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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.
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There is lots of use information that we can develop at the concept phase, without an engineering prototype.
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5 Options to Manage Risks during Product Engineering
What do we do with the risk we’ve identified? We look at five different ways to manage risk during new product development.
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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,…
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UFMEA vs. DFMEA
UFMEA vs. DFMEA, the power tools of concept development. What are the similarities and differences? How do they relate, and do we need both?
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Using SIPOC to Get Started
SIPOC diagrams are a great first step for our team in understanding the key people and elements to our process.
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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?
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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).
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