This document provides an overview of the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process and uses an example of designing an improved automobile bumper to illustrate how to apply QFD. The key steps in QFD include: 1) identifying customers, 2) determining customer requirements, 3) prioritizing requirements, 4) benchmarking competitors, 5) defining engineering specifications, and 6) setting target values for specifications. An example bumper redesign goes through each step, constructing a House of Quality matrix to organize the information. The document concludes by noting that a QFD/House of Quality assignment will be due the following Tuesday.