Dave Honan - Engineers are dogs, designers are cats.

#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