Like an author who suddenly faces writer's block or an artist who can no longer bear to pick up a brush, an engineer encountering a design bottleneck knows that the situation can be agonizing, costly and difficult to shake.
Designers use a variety of terms to describe the incidents that can pop up to delay a project at any point during its life, including bottlenecks, challenges, roadblocks and hangups. The good news is that most design headaches can be avoided entirely, or at least quickly overcome, simply by following a few basic rules. Here's a look at how experienced designers and design managers keep their projects on schedule and moving forward.
