Quality during Design

Quality during Design is the podcast for engineers and product developers navigating the messy front end of product development. Each episode gives you practical quality and reliability tools you can use during the design phase — so your team catches problems early, avoids costly rework, and ships products people can depend on.

You'll hear solo episodes on early-stage clarity, risk-based decision-making, and quality thinking, along with conversations with cross-functional experts in the series A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts.

If you want to design products people love for less time, less cost, and a whole lot fewer headaches — this is your place.

Hosted by Dianna Deeney, consultant, coach, and author of Pierce the Design Fog. Subscribe on Substack for monthly guides, templates, and Q&A.

Podcasting since 2021 • 194 episodes

Quality during Design

Latest Episodes

Beyond the Pipeline: Rethinking Engineering Careers with Cassie Leonard (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

The episode features Cassie Leonard—former aerospace technical leader, executive coach, and author of STEM Moms and Beyond the Pipeline—explaining why the traditional linear “pipeline” model of engineering careers is constrict...

April 23, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 19 • 34:13

The Quiet System: Why Your Lessons Learned Aren’t Sticking

Your team keeps solving the exact same problems project after project. What if the issue isn't careless execution, but a reactive system designed to hide failures rather than learn from them? In this episode:• Discover how prote...

April 09, 2026 • Season 6 • Episode 20 • 8:36

Shannon Cummings on Why Marketing Should Be in the Room Before the First Prototype (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Your team keeps building the wrong thing, despite great effort. What if the problem isn’t execution. It’s the fog you’re navigating in?We speak with Shannon Cummings, a seasoned product and marketing strategist who’s spent ...

March 26, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 18 • 36:05

Stop Being a Witness to Decisions That You Should be Helping to Shape

Have you ever walked into a meeting (design review, planning session, phase gate) only to realize the decision was already made? That the discussion was just theater, not dialogue? You weren’t there to shape the outcome. You were there to witne...

March 12, 2026 • Season 6 • Episode 19 • 11:58

Karli Auble THRIVEs: Positive Psychology Meets Engineering Rigor (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

In this episode of 'Quality during Design', we delve into how engineers can avoid mistakes and oversights by managing stress and enhancing performance. Host Dianna Deeney interviews Karli Auble, an engineering leader at a global fir...

February 26, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 17 • 35:58