Product Design
The beautiful and functional products made by Apple show that great products can transform industries. Yet most companies can't spend billions (or even tens of thousands) of dollars to design products. Crowdspring has revolutionized product design by giving you access to world class industrial designers at a fraction of what you would otherwise pay. Product design projects on crowdspring are risk-free, affordable and quick.
With every project you'll get:
- Dozens of designs in 7 days or less
- 100% money back guarantee
- Award winning customer support
- Free legal contract protecting your intellectual property
- 60,000+ happy clients
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Stop wasting your valuable time elsewhere. Over 220,000 talented designers from 195 countries work on crowdspring. They have helped some of the best Brands in the world with product design.
Work you'll love, guaranteed.
Beautiful product design that drives business results. If you're not 100% happy with your design project we'll promptly refund all your money.
Award-winning customer support.
All the support you need, when you need it. Our dedicated support team (99% customer satisfaction) is available by phone, email, and chat to ensure your success.
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Powerful intellectual property protections, made simple. Every project includes industry leading customized, dynamic legal contracts and policies that protect your intellectual property.
What is product design?
Product design is the process of creating new products to be sold by a business to its customers. Product design starts with the efficient and effective generation and development of ideas and continues through a product development process that leads to new products.
You need more than luck to design and sell popular products. Ultimately, great design is about understanding people and their pain points. Products get inside the heads of consumers in surprising ways, and product designers have taken advantage of this for decades.
Whether it’s a mop you use to clean your floor or a digital experience that is as ephemeral as it is engaging, psychological cues are everywhere.
You can learn more about the psychology of product design on our award-winning business marketing blog.
How can you turn your idea into a successful product?
Here are the four important steps you must follow to turn your ideas into a successful new product:
1. Define – Talk to customers, do market research and competitive analysis.
2. Explore – Measure the opportunity, build your business case, and develop the idea.
3. Build – Know your target, check in, and be flexible.
4. Learn – Use focus groups, listen to your team, and take advantage of social media.
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4 Important Steps To Turn Your Idea Into a Successful New Product.1.Tell us what you need.
- Interactive Q&A customized for product design projects.
- Flexible pricing for everyone.
- Simple (takes just a few minutes) and proven process.
FAQs
Projects run for 7 days, but you can shorten them to as little as 1 day if you're in a hurry. Many entries come in the last few days of a project, and we encourage you to wait until the project ends before picking your favorite (tell us if you want to close the project early). You can extend your project for free, up to 7 more days if you need more time.
Product design packages start at $1249, while projects with a single designer (1-to-1 projects) start at $200. All pricing packages include the award to the designer and crowdspring's fee, a custom legal contract giving you full rights to the work you're buying, free focus groups, our award-winning customer support, tools and platform. You can select packages and features based on what you need and your budget. You will always know up front exactly what you'll pay, with no hidden costs and no surprises.
Absolutely! Every project on crowdspring is protected by a custom legal contract giving you full rights to the work you're buying. If you have multiple awards, you'll have separate contracts for each. Once the contract is signed and the creative is paid after you approve the final deliverables in your project, you can use the design any way you like. You can change it or alter it in any way – it's yours.
The non-winning work remains the property of the person who created that work. This means you may not use those other entries (or any portions of them) in any way. But we give you an easy way to add awards and make offers in your projects when you find more than one design (or name) you love.
"I loved working with crowdspring! It was so exciting to watch your project pick up steam as you gave feedback to the creatives. It felt very collaborative and you have so many creative people submitting ideas just for your project. Their system is organized, easy to use and understand. I am so happy with the results!"
Ali Hissey, Founder, Hissey Fit
2.Work with our über-talented designers
- Multiple designers submit dozens of concepts.
- Review, rate, and give feedback.
- One price. Pick the design you love.
FAQs
You'll see dozens of designs from multiple designers. The more active you are in the project, the more designs you will get. We'll let you know every time a new design or comment comes in and invite you to give feedback. The more feedback you provide, the more designs you'll receive. Years of experience show us that projects with active clients will receive more than double the designs compared to projects with low client participation.
Absolutely! In fact, this is a key factor for success. Once the designs start rolling in, let the designers know what you think about their designs. You can score and give individual feedback. You can also update your brief if you want to address all participants in your project. They are happy to make changes and iterate on their designs.
When you score each entry (1 to 5 stars), your score and comments are private. Only you and the individual designer will see the star rating and comments on their design. Updates to your brief are public for all participants in the project.
Like more than one product design? It happens all the time. You can start your project with multiple awards or add awards at any time during your project. You can also make offers on additional designs after your project has been awarded.
"In 10 years I have launched 17 projects on crowdspring and have always been impressed. Crowdspring brings 10 maybe even 100 times more creativity than simply working with a single random creative I could have found outside of crowdspring where I might only see a couple different concepts. And the price is very affordable."
Steven Krane, Entrepreneur & Investor
3.Pick the winning design and finalize the project.
- Select the winner.
- Make final adjustments.
- Receive full rights to the work you purchased.
FAQs for step 3
You have seven days to select your favorite after the project closes. Sometimes, you might need an extra few days. Just let us know when that happens.
Before making the final decision, you may want to run a free focus group. All silver packages in product design projects include one free focus group ($29 upgrade to unlimited). All other design packages include unlimited focus groups.
A focus group (also called a "poll") allows you to invite friends, customers, colleagues and anyone else to vote and comment on their favorite designs (you can assign weighted votes or let each vote count equally). Anyone is eligible to vote as long as they have the special voting URL we'll provide to you (they will not need to register an account). Your focus group can be public or private - you choose! You fully control whom you invite to each focus group and what designs are included in each focus group.
In product design projects, you'll have a private area to complete the project with the designer you chose. If you have more than one award, you'll have a separate wrap-up with each designer. Each of you will sign the legal contract for the project (giving you full rights once the designer is paid).
You can continue to iterate and request changes in wrap-up to make sure the design is just right. Once you approve the proof files, the designer will create and send final files for your approval. Once you approve the final files, we pay the designer and you own full rights to the work.
For each project category, we'll recommend required file types and will ask the winning designer to provide you with appropriate final files. You can always request specific formats you or your printer require.
"I just finished my 2nd of 3 projects with crowdspring. The first was an incredible book cover. This new project was artwork for a wooded token. I have a 3rd project on going for the development of a logo for graphic for my wife's jewelry business. I'll summarize - Don't waste your time at other sites - just come to crowdspring.com. The experience, the talent and the result will only make your life easier."
Robert Dixon, Bob Dixon Consulting Services
The creative power of crowdspring is unmatched anywhere.
Crowdspring is the first stop for any aspiring entrepreneur, whether bootstrapped or VC-backed. The creative power of the their crowd is unmatched anywhere.
Product design, also known as industrial design is the process of identifying, investigating, and validating the problem, and crafting a design that solves that problem. Product design involves a cross-section of skills, including graphic and visual design skills, user research, data analysis, prototype design, and business strategy.
Product designers are effectively a cross between a mechanical engineer and an artist. They study function and form, and how a user connects to a product. They typically do not design moving parts (like gears) but will work to optimize the appearance, function and value of products.
Packaging design focuses on carrying, protecting, and showcasing the product. Product design focuses on the design of the actual product.
You should document your requirements in writing. On crowdspring, we take you through a proven questionnaire to help our industrial designers understand your requirements. You can upload sketches, inspirations or other files to help people get started.
Crowdspring product designers are experienced industrial designers and are comfortable working with many different file formats, including CAD and CAM models
Yes! Every project on crowdspring is protected by a customized legal agreement that transfers to the client full rights to the product design, once you approve the final files and we pay the product designer.
Yes! In fact, this happens frequently on crowdspring. Our designers are exceptionally good at what they do and clients will often post projects with multiple awards or make offers for other product designs they like.
Yes. You control the privacy of your project. You can select closed galleries (where only you see all the designs), can require designers to sign non-disclosure agreements before you admit them to the project, can keep your project out of search engines, and can create both public and private briefs to hide your future product from competitors.
The product designers on crowdspring have helped companies of all sizes with product design. We've worked with big Brands like LG, Barilla, and many others, as well as many entrepreneurs and small businesses in the U.S. and around the world.
The simple answer is because they can. Product design is a complex art, combining many different disciplines. Historically, you had to pay tens of thousands and often, hundreds of thousands of dollars for product design. Companies like Apple invest billions of dollars in product design. But crowdspring has leveled the playing field, allowing companies of all sizes to design products for a tiny fraction of the cost charged by traditional product design agencies.
We continue to be amazed with the breadth of the product design projects our community has done. Many of these projects are protected by NDAs so we can't publicly talk about them or show you the work from those projects, but product design projects have included the design of mobile phones, watches, appliances, electronic equipment, clothing, tools, sports equipment, and many more products.
Crowdspring guarantees your satisfaction in product design projects. There's NO fine-print. We are not happy until you are. People are so thrilled with the designs they receive on crowdspring that we are proud to stand behind the work and make you an unconditional promise.
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