The Engineering Journey - Part 6: Beyond the Sketch: Building Resilience and Reality into the Product
The Engineering Journey ← Series Home The Moment of Truth: From Concept to Blueprint In the preceding stages of the design journey, the team engaged in a broad, expansive process: first, observing and empathizing with human needs (design thinking); second, translating those ambiguous needs into measurable technical metrics (Quality Function Deployment); and third, generating and evaluating a plethora of creative ideas (conceptual design). The output of those efforts was a single, approved candidate concept, selected through rigorous evaluation, such as the Decision Matrix Technique. ...