The Art of Product Design: Changing How Things Get Made

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book wouldn’t have seen the light of day without my wife, Laura, and daughters, Lana and Mona. They put up with me spending evenings and weekends working on this book (and on GrabCAD) instead of spending time with them.

I want to thank the fantastic GrabCAD community and customers; they are a constant source of inspiration for me.

Special thanks to my friend John Harris, a Canadian journalist and speechwriter, who helped turned my Estonian English into perfect English.

Thanks to Rob Stevens for managing the book project. Without him this book would not be in your hands, and John and I would be still brainstorming in his treehouse in Japan. Thanks also to the rest of book team—Madonna McManus, David M. Scott, Andy Payne, and Mike Volpe.

This book was only possible because of the many people who gave generously of their time, including the following: Carl Bass, Terry Stonehocker, Andreas Gkertsos, Chris Shakal, Venkatasubramanian, William Barclay, Sasank Gopinathan, Tommy Mueller, Verislav Mudrak, Nediane Mesquita, Jenny Tseitlin, Krista Casal, Paolo Termini, Alex Tepper, Nicholas Oxley, Nate Siress, Tony Slavik, Dulcie Madden, Nick Pinkston, Scott Miller, Herman Pang, Glenn Gibson, and Dave Vogt.

I also want to say thank you to my engineering professors Rein Küttner and Martin Eerme, who introduced me to CAD—in some sense, that’s where this story started. Also to Mati Toomla and Riho Vask, who were my mentors at my first job as an engineer.

Thanks to all the ...