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Design Selection

Rank proposed design variations by combined score: list variation, cost score, manufacturability score, customer appea…

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AExecute — “help me do it”Rank proposed design variations by combined score: list variation, cost score,…+
Rank proposed design variations by combined score: list variation, cost score, manufacturability score, customer appeal score, add a combined weighted score using SUMPRODUCT, and rank the variations so the selection meeting can see the top options constrained by our weights.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Before the selection meeting, make the ranking defensible—document the weights and show how…+
Before the selection meeting, make the ranking defensible—document the weights and show how each score is normalized, compute a SUMPRODUCT combined score, display both raw and normalized rankings, and flag any design with a low sample size or extreme score that could skew results.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

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Rank proposed design variations by combined score of cost, manufacturability and customer appeal to make the selection meeting all constraints.

Who does this

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Industrial Designer

Questions people ask

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Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Excel — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.