Quality during Design Blog

Listen • Read • Access Bonuses • Find Inspiration.

Search

Filter Posts

Subscribe to the Podcast

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

"Dianna Deeney has launched a podcast that focuses on both the need and the 'how to' include quality and reliability in your design. Both entertaining and thoughtful, the shows are well done and worth subscribing."  

Fred Schenkelberg, founder of Accendo Reliability 

Updates

Want to be a guest?

I like talking with people in product design and the manufacturing industry. Contact me if you're interested in being interviewed and being a guest on the show.

Design to Avoid Problems: Focusing on Symptoms Early On

The art of product development is fraught with challenges, but perhaps none is more heartbreaking than hearing negative customer feedback when you thought you were at the finish line. Picture this all-too-common scenario: after months of development and seemingly thorough customer engagement throughout the process, you finally present your polished product to users only to…

Let’s talk about the real AI applications in industry

Skip Chat GPT. Integrate AI with autonomous decision making to see gains from 10% to 99%. But go slowly.

Slow Down to Speed Up: Jake McKee’s Guide to AIX (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Yakira Mirabito about social dynamics within engineering and how it affects decision-making.

Uncovering Customer Desires: Understanding Benefits in Concept Development

In product development, we often get caught up in the technical specifications and features we’re creating, forgetting the fundamental reason we’re building products in the first place: to provide benefits that improve users’ lives. This foundational concept of benefits versus features deserves revisiting regularly, especially when we’re deep in the weeds of development work. Subscribe…

Blank Flipcharts Don’t Make Magic, But Templates Do

In product development, the “fuzzy front end” of concept development often represents both tremendous opportunity and significant challenge. During this critical phase, teams are tasked with defining problems, understanding customers, and generating solutions-all before any engineering begins. How we navigate this phase dramatically impacts bottom-line results, market share, customer satisfaction, and whether projects even launch…

Why Your Cross-Functional Team Isn’t Communicating Effectively (And How to Fix It)

Have you ever watched a promising product idea slowly die in the fuzzy space between “great concept” and “actual development”? You’re not alone. The journey from product idea to market-ready solution contains a critical yet often overlooked phase: concept development. This is where cross-functional teams must align their diverse perspectives to create a solid foundation…