Toasting Design

Option Evaluation This is part 15 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 15 December 2021

Detailed Conceptual Design (The meat is going on the bones) cont. This is part 14 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 2...

Warning, this episode may leave you hungry. Not hungry to design (that's weird). Hungry for nautical knowledge (I'm sure it's a thing). Alternatively just hungry for a burger. On a side note there should be a poll on Spotify.  Also we talk about Design. Hosted with a captains hat and skull and cross bones flag by M.Boer and S. Schekman on 10 Nov 2021 - Arrrrg

If your mind went there from the title then steady on now, this is not that type of show. On the other hand if you yourself have wondered how you could keep wearing that designer jacket while at a water theme park, besides the obvious questions I have for you, then you may find this useful. Alternatively you may want to consider talking to someone (not a professional - just anyone. I know engineer...

You wouldn't steal a car You wouldn't steal a handbag You wouldn't steal a television You wouldn't steal a movie Why would you have too few criteria... you monster. Hosted in person, in arms reach, and in mild panic by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 20th October 2021

Detailed Conceptual Design (The meat is going on the bones) cont. This is part 13 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 2...

Detailed Conceptual Design (The meat is going on the bones) cont. This is part 12 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 1...

Detailed Conceptual Design (The meat is going on the bones) This is part 11 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 1 Octob...

This week we take a break from the design project and return to a comfortable past time: thinking illogically in order to solve problems. Ground based ideas are starting to become stale (its a toast joke - a laugh was appropriate and expected, please reprimand yourself appropriately) so we are moving up (thats a life joke - these are not as good when I have to explain them to you). Because the cha...

High Level Concepts cont. This is part 7 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 10 September 2021

High Level Concepts cont. This is part 9 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 3 September 2021

High Level Concepts cont. This is part 8 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 3 September 2021

High Level Concepts cont. This is part 7 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com).  Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 10 August 2021

High Level Concepts This is part 6 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 10 August 2021

Schekman In review of the more recent episode descriptions it has become apparent that the connection between the description and the content is almost completely absent. In previous discussions this issue has been brought up and the committee of Toast was assured that there would be an increase in relevance at the least. This is contradiction to the contract that we have subsequetely created and...

URS Refinement This is part 5 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consecutively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com). Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 20 July 2021

I'm not big into definitions or trying to constrain design to set terminology. But terms are useful in conveying ideas and communicating your design (mime just won't cut it for mechanical martini shakers). Two big words which are commonly viewed as interchangable are pass and fail but these are quite different. Two other words are equivalent and alternative. While alternative tends to be more easi...

There are always alternate options. Some are better than others (see episode 118 for more). But sometimes you see an idea that is not necessarily better or worse but completely different to the way you may have thought to approach it, whether constraining yourself to a particular view point or based on your own knowledge and experience guiding you down a single path. To illustrate this I found exa...

There are some many different ways to find, define and refine a problem. While one way may work in a given situation it is not always applicable in another. For example watching the news might give you an idea for a problem orientated around Covid (unless you are listening to this in the far future in which case, replace Covid with whatever apocalypse type event is currently annoying you). But wat...

Don't you just wish that you could keep working on that design project? Keep going until the complete product is sitting in your hand (or in front of you at least - don't sit an aircraft on your hand). No? Is that just me? Ok what about once the project is done telling you to get back at it after your lecturer has told you how terrible a job you did in the first place? Still no? Really? Shame, I g...

How to plan and setup a Toasting Design episode. Step 1) Completely ignore the problem until randomly hit with an inspiration from either a student, a book, a Guinness world record (our forte), a youtube video or a random epiphany in the middle of the night. Step 2) Spend a few minutes planning it out and telling the other host about it. Step 3) Get excited about the topic. Step 4) Completely drop...

As engineers the simple things that keep most NonEn's (non engineers) busy and entertained simply isn't enough for us. We need more. Such as taking chess and making all the pieces little robots that fight or play water polo in a pool of carbon dioxide that you have to run around in instead of swimming but cannot breathe in either. We like to take things up a notch with most of the fun figuring out...

Design Planning cont. This is part 4 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consequteively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com) Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 1st June 2021

Design Planning This is part 3 of a large series of episodes where a design is developed from scratch and starting at the problem identification phase. Episodes will not be released consequteively as time is needed to do some work in the background. Input and suggestions are welcome (toastingdesign@gmail.com) Hosted by M. Boer and S. Schekman on 1st June 2021

The idea that you are either born a designer or you are not is a bit nonsense. Design is a skill which is learnt. It is a skill that needs to be exercised and one that requires training. A large point behind this podcast is to discuss ways of doing so and while discussed in the past we are going through it all once more, hopefully from a different angle. Let us know if you find these content types...