{"id":24967,"date":"2017-11-06T00:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/?p=24967"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:57:02","slug":"product-design-best-practices-kickstarter-crowdfunding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/product-design-best-practices-kickstarter-crowdfunding\/","title":{"rendered":"Design a Successful Product: 6 Product Design Best Practices from Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many people wonder if it’s possible to design their own products.<\/p>\n

The truth is that product design used to be very expensive, time consuming, and fraught with many pitfalls. Even today, most entrepreneurs and small businesses face many challenges when trying to design their own products.<\/p>\n

But product design doesn’t need to be very expensive or time consuming. In fact, there are many ways to get from idea to a prototype in a short amount of time, for a fraction of the price that people used to pay for traditional product design.<\/p>\n

The crowdspring community (over 210,000 graphic and product designers) has helped many entrepreneurs, small businesses and even big Brands design products<\/a> for many different industries. We’ve worked with the likes of LG, Barilla, Philips and some of the world’s best agencies to design innovative products and product packaging<\/a>, for a fraction of the cost those companies and agencies would otherwise pay (not to mention a fraction of the time such design would normally take).<\/p>\n

But what happens after<\/span> you get your product designed (often through rapid prototyping), find a manufacturer to build your product, and get ready to sell your product?<\/p>\n

How do you go from a well-designed prototype to a successful product launch?<\/p>\n

That’s what we want to discuss in this post.<\/p>\n

The answer is … great product design helps to create successful products.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not a secret that successful products share a common trait – they’re well-designed products that solve specific, identifiable problems shared by many prospective customers.<\/p>\n

Take a platform like Kickstarter.\u00a0Kickstarter launched in 2009 with the goal to \u201chelp bring creative projects to life.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Kickstarter brings product design and the creative process into the public eye in a way that has transformed how ideas turn into successful products.<\/p>\n

Kickstarter is a valuable resource for entrepreneurs to get financial backing for their ideas. But it can also teach us much about product design and how successful product design turns into successful launches.<\/p>\n

There are some widely acknowledged basic best practices that all of the most successful projects on Kickstarter follow. Successful products:<\/p>\n