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 ...

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Meeting customer demand for a medical device can be daunting. Manufacturers face significant challenges in efficiently scaling up production, ranging from product design to documentation to ...

It is important that engineers document the design process so that they can communicate it to others and ensure no information is lost. It is also critical for convincing decision-makers to approve ...

It’s pretty awesome to have a hardware design hero jump at the chance to work on a Hackaday conference badge. I am of course talking about Voja Antonic. Designing a hardware badge isn’t quite as ...

I recently read James Sweatman from Jagex’s great article ‘Death of the game design document’ and this got me thinking about my experience of game design documents, and how I approach them. I agree ...

Do you need a design or functional specification? It depends on who your audience is and where you are in the product development cycle. People often confuse the purpose and role of functional ...