Happy new year to everybody and welcome back to the World of #nde40: About a year after Ripi Singh (InspiringNext) and Johannes Vrana started working on this paper, they are finally able to share their design thinking perspective on NDE 4.0 with all of you: https://rdcu.be/cc0Tb This paper was published yesterday by the Springer Nature Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation and will be part of a special issue called "Trends in NDE 4.0: Purpose, Technology, and Application". All of the papers on the special issue can be found here (four published up to the moment): https://link.springer.com/journal/10921/topicalCollection/AC_784b1b0b7c2fa6cb021e9b4eb3b770ae Thanks once more to the other editors of this special issue: Bernd Valeske (Fraunhofer IZFP), Krishnan Balasubramanian (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), and Kazuyuki Nakahata (Ehime University). Who wants to know more about NDE 4.0: https://www.youtube.com/c/nde40