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Case Study: Structured Concept Development for Hardware-Software Integration

When premium hardware ROI depends on precise design inputs, see how ADEPT uncovers user-grounded constraints traditional methods miss.

From Tools to Teamwork – 200 Episodes of Rethinking Quality during Design

The throughline of 200 episodes of tools and teamwork: How do teams align on the right problem before they start designing the solution?

Influence Without the Title, with Jenny Wanger (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Keven Wang from UnitX about today’s AI in factories and his vision for the future.

What Are You Really Trying to Learn? Chad Schneider on Prototyping with Purpose (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Keven Wang from UnitX about today’s AI in factories and his vision for the future.

Pierce the Design Fog Named Finalist in the 20th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards

I’m honored to share that Pierce the Design Fog has been named a Finalist in the 20th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards, in the Business – General category. The announcement came on June 11th, marking two decades of the NIEA recognizing standout work from self-published authors and independent presses. The NIEA evaluates submissions on both…

The Most Expensive Question You Didn’t Ask

 Sometimes engineering has to do some rework. Usually, it isn’t caused by bad answers. This engineering rework is caused by questions that were never asked or the right questions answered with the wrong tool at the wrong fidelity. Prototyping should be the antidote to that. But for a lot of engineering teams, it’s actually part…