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| Learning About ASK
By Todd Post
The ASK Magazine prototype appeared in January 2001, and was released to a small group of readers.
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| Proof of Concept
By Jeffrey Bauer
Before anyone would consider a design incorporating inflatable wings, you had to know the concept was sound.
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| Off the Charts
By Brian K. Muirhead
We came up with two basic concepts for landing: one was a traditional approach, the other was a wild idea.
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| As Small as Possible
By Scott Tibbitts
I showed the prototype to the customer and said, "This is the smallest switch we can make."
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| Dropping in on Mars
By Tommaso P. Rivellini
Airbags may seem like simple, low-tech products, but it was eye-opening to discover just how little we knew about them.
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| Smart Buying
By Steven A. Gonzalez
How do you buy the best technology, when you don't even know what technology is out there?
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| Supplying the Giant
By Larry A. Lawson
We partnered with a small company making baseball bats and golf club shafts. They had never built a military product.
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| | Special Feature |
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| Right - Rapid - Rough
By Dr. Craig Lawrence
Instead of spending your time and resources speculating solutions and analyzing the problem, spend your time solving it.
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| | Features |
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| An Old Dog and New Tricks
By W. Scott Cameron
The young project manager was eager to experiment. I had never tried out this particular concept before but it intrigued me.
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| Prototyping Pitfalls
By Terry Little
It's OK for a prototype to fail. In fact, if there isn't a non-trivial likelihood of failure, then why build a prototype at all?
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| | Practices |
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| The Storyboard's Big Picture
By Cheryl A. Malloy & William Cooley
Graphic, sequential depictions give a quick project overview while breaking down the product into its major components.
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| | Interview |
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| ASK Talks with Dr. Charles Pellerin
A former Director of Astrophysics for NASA considers what the Hubble Space Telescope failure taught him about leadership.
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