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50 Industry-Inspired Best Practices for Quality Products

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Successful Product Development Organizations

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BEST PRACTICE KEY CONCEPTS

  • Function drives interfaces while interfaces drive the form of components and assemblies.
  • Design is like peeling an onion, working from the outside inward.
  • Refining a product requires iteration for continuous improvement of performance.
  • During iteration, there is a significant difference between refining and patching.
  • Safety must be designed into a product. Design work is only as good as what the documentation captures.

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  • 6.5

Succesful Product Development Organizations

Refine Concepts into Simple, Viable Products. 

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  • $3.99

BEST PRACTICE KEY CONCEPTS

  • Function drives interfaces while interfaces drive the form of components and assemblies.
  • Design is like peeling an onion, working from the outside inward.
  • Refining a product requires iteration for continuous improvement of performance.
  • During iteration, there is a significant difference between refining and patching.
  • Safety must be designed into a product. Design work is only as good as what the documentation captures.

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Order Product Design Best Practices as an eBook, looseleaf or soft cover.

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