Design Engineering
Design engineering is about learning how to manufacture the design, research and iteration, finding the restrictions and optimal paths, and also feeding possibilities into design process. It is not simply a step that comes after design, but part of the design process - creating prototypes, building in order to learn, and exploring the technologies used to build things, sketching with techonology.
Resources
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From Eddie Lou /books/design engineering handbook.
Design engineering manifesto
- Designers who code, developers who design
- Prioritize meeting the need over rigid process.
- Build for speed and flexibility. Build fast and test fast.
- Design as a craft over design as a way of thinking.
- What you can communicate with a specification, you can communicate with a prototype
- Innovation, explore and experiment. But be ready to throw away what you build.
- Build tools and system that support desgin and development.
- Build reusable atoms to lift into production code.