#592 – Product Design with Simone Giertz | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Welcome back, Simone Giertz!

Simone returns to The Amp Hour to discuss her new venture selling products (Yetch.store) that she has been designing.
Simone was last on the show in 2017 on episode 331.
She has been doing more voice overs so that she can focus on the work while recording. Chris mentioned past guest James Bruton recording as he goes along.
Truckla
She’s interested in random everyday problems and solving them
Course showing how she designed a fruitbowl
Moved to LA
Scissor lamp – will likely become a product for sale (As Seen On YouTube)
Taking things to production
The Everyday Calendar is a capacitive touch calendar that mounts to your wall and allows you to track a habit throughout the year.
The Calendar was on sale in the MoMA store!
Design For Manufacturing meant reducing costs, so she didn’t want to do pushbuttons (especially because there would be so many)
Kickstarter
The product design firm has 1.5 employees, but soon will be 2 people.
Setting prices
Puzzle table
Screwdriver ring
Margin invites counterfeit
Scraps chair
Future flatpack engineering for furniture sales?
Having to think about new challenges for selling things: certification in different markets, sales tax, etc
Collaborate moving stuff into engineering
High cost items like the Vesta Board
“make your own gnome”