The unprecedented level of collaboration early in the design process enabled GM to avoid some potentially embarrassing problems later.
Sharapova is intimately involved in the design process of the outfit to which she lends her name, coming up with sketches and design ideas.
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The entertaining episode also features a guest appearance from pinball designer John Popaduik who, through his work at electronic gaming manufacturer Williams Bally Midway, played an integral role in the design process for pinball machines such as Circus Voltaire and Theatre of Magic.
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Echoing the thinking behind the Naturalis appliance also featured below, these startups all recognize that consumers have a real desire for clothes and beauty products that are customizable in some way, making them more unique while also enabling the user to involve themselves in the design process.
Early in the design process, Arad was teamed with the landscape architect Peter Walker, who shares his minimalist sensibility, and they have made the space around the two footprints a handsome and restrained civic square, with oak trees, benches, and light poles giving the place a kind of quiet, firm order.
In talking about the design process, Stringer says it can begin with sketching ideas.
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Include patient input in the design and development process, and build in feedback mechanisms.
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In fact, the design process is so intensely collaborative it's almost as if a single creative mind is at work.
"It's very important that the design process in New York be an open process, because it needs to reflect that things change, and people change, and times change and years go by, " he said.
It then repeats the process on the survivors until something useful emerges though, unlike natural evolution, there is a bit of intelligent design in the process, too.
So these are some the key points in the long process of design development of an HTC phone, where engineers and designers push each other to uncomfortable realm, before eventually delivering the near-final product to Peter Chou for his ultimate test on the size, feel in hand, feel in pocket and even the ringtones.
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The Surface's built-in kickstand threw another wrench into the design process, as did the magnetic hinge used to attach the keyboard covers.
If that sounds interesting, stay tuned to this space in the coming weeks for a deeper discussion of our design philosophy and how it plays out in the process of software development.
Wagner is both trained as a mechanical engineer and industrial designer which make him skilled in all practical stages of the design process.
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Called VaporMg, the case is melted down in the manufacturing process and then moulded to the details needed for the design.
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The Daemokjang are in charge of the entire construction process, including the planning, design and construction of buildings, and the supervision of subordinate carpenters.
With Fukushima, it looks like there was a serious failure in the risk analysis, design, and approval process.
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Nokia, and WordPress to stay ahead of content consumption and design trends and, in the process, has traveled the world creating his own.
Ms Hersman said they were now following up two lines of inquiry - the actual cause of the short circuit, and why the certification process failed to pick up the defect in the battery's design.
The improved design streamlines the process, improves the speed of check-in, offers 12 language options and gives customers the ability to self-select options they find most important in their experience.
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Trump said she began the design process for this collection in 2010 while traveling to Morocco, Turkey and Azerbaijan.
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Now fully funded, Yang and his team are already in the fabrication process and working to improve the original design.
You actually have to spend a lot of work in the design, all the way through to the manufacturing process, knowing where you are going to manufacture.
This shift in thinking around the nature of the relationship and the potential value derived from it (that competitive edge) has them engaging earlier in their process, at the conception and architecture design phase of their projects, rather than once they have the specification developed.
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In the spirit of design, it can be seen as a process of cultivating creative confidence, while seeing life as a series of prototypes that must be challenged and refined at every step.
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The design dust-up highlights a pitfall in the process of winning public approval for major projects: Specific architects and developers aren't tied to projects, allowing the reality of what is ultimately built to look quite different from early renderings.
But in the process, the private automakers have probably gotten better at auto design.
Lead optimisation is a key stage in the drug discovery process, where early leads are improved through cycles of design, synthesis and testing to identify potential drugs which are suitable for testing in a clinical setting.
"The design process led to a building that was under-engineered in a number of important respects, " it said.
In his quest to make gaming accessible to all, Ben walks viewers through the design process for two types of Xbox controller mods-a split controller and a single-hand controller.
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