accelerate your business

DESIGN4U is our monthly service designed to create ongoing partnerships with businesses, brands, and agencies, making design resources more accessible rather than a set project scope, timeframe and budget.

With flexibility at its core, DESIGN4U provides weekly access to a senior design and innovation expert on a monthly plan, assisting with ad-hoc tasks and projects—like a part-time employee without the overheads.

WHY design4u?

  • Have new ideas and want to develop concepts to ensure launch success.

  • Seek experienced designer, without the overheads, hiring time, immediate start.

  • Want to understand your user or consumer and conduct testing and evaluation.

  • Desire to design better product solutions for your clients and consumers.

  • Want peace of mind service, with no out of scope chats, hidden costs with a simple set price per month.

  • Need to develop your primary, secondary & tertiary packaging solutions.

  • Need to identify new business opportunities, circular product solutions.

  • Need a gap fill to cover leave or whilst awaiting recruitment of design staff.

  • Get support to create concepts, CAD, renderings of new product designs.

Accelerate, empower and support your business projects and tasks with a weekly embedded design/innovation resource for…

Less than $150 per day.

Unparalleled Weekly Access

  • Innovation + Design Thinking

    - Innovation methodology to identify and validate solutions to business challenges, novel market opportunities.

    - Design for the circular economy product innovation methods to unlock alternative growth and revenue streams.

    - Workshops including Design sprints, proto push, ideation, stakeholder insights

    - Experience across multiple industries; consumer goods, devices, toys, lifestyle, food, beverage, FMCG, packaging

  • concept creation

    - New product concept identification

    - Mood, brand, theme, colour boards

    - Theme boards, inspiration, trends, colour

    - Rapid exploration (Hand, digital Sketching)

    - Rough Prototyping

    - Design for look, feel, function, brand design language.

    - Concept presentation boards

  • design Development

    - Detailed design of concepts and exploration including colour, materials, finish (CMF).

    - Computer Aided Design (CAD): Solidworks (Expert Surfacing, DFM, Mould analysis, Materials)

    - Keyshot/VRAY Rendering

    - Product Animations (3DS Max, Keyshot)

    - Incorporate Brand elements, principles

    - Implement design improvements to existing product range

  • Market/User Research

    - Market evaluation, competitor and product mapping to understand key metrics and white space opportunity.

    - Rapid concept/design/product testing groups.

    - Market research reports (Conducted by network partner)

    - Immersive product testing platform

    - Concept Evaluation, launch metrics

    - Concept Screeners (Quick identification and validation of top concepts with target audience)

  • Rapid Prototyping

    - Access quick turnaround high fidelity mock-ups

    - 3D Prototypes in Standard (FDM) and High Quality (SLA, SLS)

    - Market ready prototypes. Full colour spectrum prototypes, real life representative

    - 3D print in an array materials to suit funtional needs; PLA, PETG, PET, TPU, PA, ABS, Carbon Fibre and flexibles (Silicone replica)

  • Design for Manufacture

    - Design for manufacture (including structural, fixtures, openings, labelling, in-moulding, injection moulding, blow, thermaform, mulitpart tooling, dielines)

    - Liaise with production/manufacturing teams or business. Source and lead if required.

    - Production files (CAD) and documentation

    - Revise designs for manufacture and prepare production prototype

    - On-shore and off-shore partnerships (including Circular Economy providers of return, refurbish, remanufacture services).

ACCESS DESIGN4U PLANS

FLEXIBLE, NO LOCK-IN Plans

With no lock-in terms, no minimum terms, no out of scope chats, have peace of mind knowing you can access as you need and when you need (subject to DESIGN4U plan availability).

MONTHLY PLANS

SEED $3250

Perfect for business with existing design or development teams. Accessible all week, 1 dedicated day per week to your business.

SAPLING $4950

For those needing more insights, testing and prototyping support. Accessible all week, 1 dedicated day per week to your business.

TREE $14,550

Complete in-house design, innovation, circular design and workshop services. Accessible all week, 2 dedicated days per week to your business.

is there a catch?

Nope, with no lock-in terms you can access as you need. 1, 2, 3 or even 12 months, it’s flexible.

But the DESIGN4U service only has 2 PLAN SLOTS (2 clients at one time. If you have booked only one month, the following month is open for other clients).

So to entice you as well as guarentee your access for on-going support, Lock-in 3 months for 5% OFF 6 months for 10% OFF… Lock-in 12 months? Let’s Talk.

ARE you a NFP or Business working on a better Future?

Please reach out as we have special rates for not for profit activity and projects that support development of social, economic and environmental outcomes.