People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

As consumer expectations continue to evolve, the brands that succeed will likely be those that balance aesthetics with practical usability.

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...

For UX Designer Phillip Fernandez, collaborating with other departments at The Marketing Store hasn’t simply saved his team time — it’s led to the creation of better products. Relying on weekly ...

During the design process, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically used to assess how equipment and machinery might fail. Recent functional safety design legislation in the EU has ...

While a working device that meets all functional specifications is a chip design project group’s No. 1 goal, many designers wake up covered in sweat worrying about a dead-on-arrival chip. No matter ...

Systematically expounding functional design of reported triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Conducting an extensive comparison of the power conversion efficiencies of TENGs in air and water wave ...