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Dave Honan - Engineers are dogs, designers are cats.
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Show Notes
- Like the title says, engineers are like dogs and designers are like cats
- Dave was very detailed in the models he made as a kid. He still is.
- IDSA is Industrial Designers Society of America.
- Have the rookies design your next product
- Many design firms are under molders instead of being independent.
- Making the customer and the manufacturing guys happy
- Highs and lows of product development
- Avoid the “not invented here syndrome”, be open to new things
- Don’t take design negotiations personal
- Everyone has a customer
- Book idea “Design-asty”
- Have an inexperienced person in your brainstorm.
- Story telling is a big part of presentations and sales.
- Show your best design second to last.
- Ideas are easy. Picking and executing the good ones is tough.
- “This Old House” – gold for d.i.y. remodelers.
- Horsehair plaster is old time, composite, home construction
- AI won’t take your job: people who know how to use it will.
Bert is owner of Dexterity Engineering, www.dexterityeng.com
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