Designing a new product requires a very particular set of skills... skills that we did not have, so we found an industrial designer to help us. In this episode, you'll hear how to find and work with an industrial designer. Fred and Jeremy interview Josh Lederer, industrial designer for Tortuga Backpacks, and he gives insight into how he helps companies like ours to manufacture products.
In This Episode
- 03:04 Tortuga Updates: Blog E-book
- 05:15 Meet our industrial designer: Josh Lederer
- 06:38 What an industrial designer does
- 08:11 How to become an industrial designer
- 11:48 Finding a good consultant
- 13:40 Building an effective client/consultant relationship
- 16:20 Unique perspective: What you need for product design
- 19:34 How we found Josh
- 20:26 Advice from Josh: The best way to find a designer
- 29:25 What to bring to the table when meeting with your consultant
- 31:03 Visual communication
- 32:52 How we developed the Tortuga Air with Josh
- 37:40 Daypack concerns/challenges
- 39:54 Do research on your competition
- 42:02 How to contact Josh
- 44:26 Word to the Wise
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Word to the Wise
- Jeremy: Waking up really early - the key to a more productive day and finishing your work by the time others are getting started
- Fred: Slack - simple method of intra-team chat; has giphy capabilities to make chat more exciting/unpredictable, and even has chat communities like hashtagnomads.com
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