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Text Box: Designing with Unobtanium With all due respect to the Avatar movie, unobtainium is not something only found on Pandora.  In fact it’s designed into many products every year right here on planet Earth.  For those of us who identified this mysterious substance years ago, in fact the movie was a bummer as it took away the punch line of a favorite inside joke within the productization community. “Hey, she designed that widget out of unobtainium.  He he.” Or some such–I never claimed to be good with jokes. In the very real world of product development, designing with unobtainium happens all to often.  <<more>>

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Text Box: The Smoke Test The infamous smoke test: for engineers the culmination of hours or weeks or years of design and simulation and analysis; for managers the first tangible indicator of possible success or failure. It’s also the ubiquitous engineering term, channeling a swashbuckling approach that we all wish was our style.  The term can even bring a little fear to the uninitiated bean counters and marketing mavens, and it’s the rare engineer who has not over-dramatized the literalness of an upcoming smoke test a tad. For those who are afraid to ask what a smoke test is, it is the first gross functional check <<more>> Text Box: On Lagom and Seeking the Proper Balance The best word I know in any language is a Swedish word, lagom.  Basically doesn’t translate well to English but more or less means “just right.” In the sense of not too much, not too little, kind of a Goldilocks type concept.  To me lagom means seeking the proper balance, finding the right solution that is a proper compromise between all competing factors. <<more>>