Let’s take a moment to appreciate the unsung heroes!
A brilliant product owes a great deal to a cast of unsung heroes who don’t get the appreciation they deserve
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Erin McDermott
Erin M. McDermott is Director of Optical Engineering at Spire Starter and a digital nomad (read: vagrant). She travels the world meeting hardware engineers who don’t know that things using light (cameras, LED illumination, LiDAR, laser processes etc) need competent design, optimisation, and tolerancing like the rest of their widget. Get in touch at spirestarter.com or @erinmmcdermott
Best way to fail and lessons learned
Erin learns some valuable lessons from the demise of OddEngineer.com
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The serious business of play in skills development
Don't feel guilty about your playtime - feel upgraded!
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Job description etiquette: Please don’t ‘just guess’
Erin takes on job postings, which frequently seem to defy the laws of both time and grammar
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Optical simulation – Devil in the details
How ray-tracing isn't just about creating pretty pictures when it comes to optical design
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Introducing OddEngineer.com
Erin McDermott talks us through the idea behind skills marketplace platform OddEngineer.com
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Value your skills as a Product Designer
Product developers need to accentuate the positives and embrace the negatives
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Get creative to make data-rich media work for your team
Data-rich media can help promote better communication and comprehension in collaborative tasks. It's time we used more ingenuity in the ways we put it to work
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Some might call it ‘burnout’
Stress and burnout are a reality in this industry, and engineers need to stick together to overcome it
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Could industrial designers be economic fortune tellers?
Is there a direct correlation between beautiful design and prosperity that still holds weight in the modern world?
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