Inspiration: Market insights

June 10, 2010

As you can imagine we (here at Shapeways) meet many very interesting people, visit fun and inspiring events, view lots of different websites…..and in doing so gain a lot of market insight.

Many of them we use us to improve our product and services but many of them are more relevant for you as product designers.

As you help us by offering many great designers in you shops we want to help you by sharing these insights and ideas for you to use in your advantage.

I’ll be doing this more frequently if you guys like it…..

The first insight is this:

We get many requests from customers that they would love to be able to order our [Ringpoem](/content/creator/ringpoem "Ringpoem Creator"/index.html) as a ring or bracelet.

We will leave our Ringpoem Creator for the napkins so if you are interested, design a beautiful ring and / or bracelet and offer it on the [Co-Creator Platform](/content/co-creator_platform/index "Co-Creator Platform"/index.html).

Once we have some good designs we will feature them from our homepage.

Some tips:

– Might be good to offer them in the different materials …. Summer colors
– Keep the wall thickness in mind especially for the metals and Alumide
– Offer it via the [Co-Creator Platform](/content/co-creator_platform/index "Co-Creator Platform"/index.html) so people have ordered the model before you start doing the customization work