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#592 – Product Design with Simone Giertz

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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”

Comments

  1. Spencer says

    June 9, 2022 at 1:13 pm

    Why on Google podcast are the show notes not included on a lot of the recent episodes?

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