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Quality during Design
Quality During Design helps engineers build products people love—faster, smarter, and with less stress. Host Dianna Deeney, author of Pierce the Design Fog, shares practical tools and quality thinking from concept to execution. Subscribe on Substack for monthly guides, templates, and Q&A.
Podcasting since 2021 • 184 episodes
Quality during Design
Latest Episodes
Confidence is a Dial: Turn It with Evidence, Not Guesswork
We turn late-stage design surprises into a strategic plan by assigning explicit confidence levels, stacking evidence, and using the three-dial model of time, cost, and confidence boost. We show how to work backward from a system test to cheaper...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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13:48
Raise Your Confidence by Strategically Stacking Evidence
Late-stage design just hit a snag—now comes the moment that separates guesswork from great engineering. We walk through a clear, repeatable method to investigate unexpected failures and make high-impact decisions with confidence. Instead of hun...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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10:36
Stop Risk Theater, Start Real Decisions
We break down why risk analyses often become checkbox theater and replace them with a simple, practical impact vs likelihood matrix that guides action. From quick wins to high-stakes unknowns, we show how to calibrate effort, buy the right lear...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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15:35
How to Choose Risk Tools That Actually Help Decisions
If you reach for the nearest “risk” template, it might cause more problems.There are two very different jobs we ask risk tools to do. In this episode, we talk about how to pick the one that actually moves your project forward.
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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10:06
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Design clarity through cadence: aligning podcasts, Substack, and a playbook for teams
Big changes, clearer focus, and more ways to learn together. We’re tightening our cadence to two episodes a month and building monthly themes that travel across the podcast, blog, and a new Substack home—so you can go beyond ideas and into prac...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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9:50
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