S7E16 Chad Walters | Constraints, Iteration, & Industrial Design in Product Development

About this episode

Chad Walters discusses his extensive experience in product design and the importance of user-centered design in engineering-focused environments.

Send us Fan Mail Chad Walters is an experienced product design leader with more than two decades of experience developing complex products across healthcare, life sciences, aerospace, defense, and commercial markets. As the first industrial designer at a major engineering-focused design center in the Raleigh-Durham area, Chad helped establish and grow a strong user-centered design presence within an organization traditionally driven by engineering and manufacturing excellence. Throughout his ...

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Host: Aaron Moncur

Guest: Chad Walters

Topics covered

• product development
• industrial design
• user-centered design
• engineering
• healthcare
• aerospace

Keywords

• product design
• industrial design
• user-centered design
• engineering
• healthcare
• aerospace
• iteration
• constraints

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Organizations: Raleigh-Durham

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