In this video I walk you through what I consider the modern, industry-ready hardware product development process—what I like to call requirements-driven design. The old “spin a board, hope it works, then spin it again” mindset is how teams end up burning insane money and time (I’ve literally seen $50k board spins happen multiple times). My core point is simple: if the board doesn’t behave like your equations and expectations predicted, you usually left something out—requirements, analysis, or verification. I break the workflow into 10 design phases plus board bring-up, starting with the most important step: initial planning and requirements. Then I move into detailed specs, block diagrams, protocol planning, and the early system-level thinking that keeps you from designing in a vacuum. From there we go through library management, schematic capture, PCB stackup requirements (get your stackup from the fabricator—don’t freestyle it), floorplanning/placement, routing, DRC and post-route verification, and finally DFM plus manufacturing outputs like Gerbers, ODB++, or IPC-2581. The big takeaway is that phases 1, 8, and 9—requirements and simulation/verification—are what separate “best-practice hope” from a process that can actually hit first-time-right more consistently.