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 • 201 episodes

Quality during Design

Latest Episodes

Decision Room Carry: Why Your Best Decisions Disappear on Monday

A cross-functional team can make what seems like a solid Friday decision, captured in minutes and agreed to in the room. Only then nothing moves on Monday. Drawing on Agnes Carroll’s observation that “no one is carrying it,” the epi...

August 13, 2026 • Season 6 • Episode 24 • 15:17

From Tools to Teamwork — 200 Episodes of Rethinking Quality during Design

In this milestone episode, Dianna reflects on how the thinking evolved from quality methods to product development processes, to team dynamics, and ultimately to one central idea:Quality during Design happens when teams align early an...

July 23, 2026 • Season 6 • Episode 23 • 20:16

Influence Without the Title, with Jenny Wanger (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Why do product teams stay misaligned? Jenny Wanger explains the structural problems: efficiency-focused handoff workflows, unclear strategy, and people left cleaning up decisions they didn't help make. She shares tested practices for inf...

July 09, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 22 • 38:48

What Are You Really Trying to Learn? Chad Schneider on Prototyping with Purpose (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

The episode features Chad Schneider, CEO and founder of Root3 Labs, discussing prototyping as a discipline focused on answering specific questions to reduce technical, schedule, and market risk.

June 25, 2026 • Season 3 • Episode 21 • 33:05

The Most Expensive Question You Didn't Ask

Engineering rework often comes from unasked questions or using the wrong tool at the wrong fidelity. Dianna outlines three common prototyping traps: the “ta-da” trap, where teams build polished prototypes to impress...

June 11, 2026 • Season 6 • Episode 22 • 8:15