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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

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