Dave Honan - Engineers are dogs, designers are cats.

21/06/2024 58 min Episodio 18
Dave Honan - Engineers are dogs, designers are cats.

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#18 - Dave Honan: Engineers are dogs, designers are cats
Dave is an industrial designer for Technimark, LLC

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