Ep. 247: Product Design 101

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We’re doing something a little different and very exciting on the show today! Zoe, Hillary, and Taryn are here from the product design team. They give us the inside scoop and their different perspectives all around the in-house product design process here at Ballard Designs. When we did our listener survey a little while back, so many of you said you wanted to know more about the product. Well, we heard you and today we answer all of those questions and more! What You’ll Hear on This Episode: How far in advance does the planning for product design happen? Where does the initial concept for product design come from? How much input do different Ballard Designs employees or customers have on product design? Why a problem or challenge can lead to the best product design. What tools do we use to design products? What are our favorite recent projects? The Hutton Office Collection and exciting updates that are coming. How we are improving and updating our Original Home Office (OHO) line. Have there ever been times when the sample from a design comes in terribly wrong? How small design changes can actually make a BIG impact. How does having only US-based upholstery vendors affect design? How many new products Ballard launches each year. What are some upcoming materials and trends the team is excited about? Mentioned in This Episode: Ballard Designs Hutton Office Collection Original Home Office Lucille Chandelier Allister Upholstered Chairs Abbeville Collection Request a Catalog

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home.
0:08.7	Each week will help you unleash your inner decorator. I'm Caroline and I'm on the marketing team.
0:13.7	And I'm Taryn and I'm a product designer. And I'm Liz. I head up the Ballard creative team.
0:18.2	We're your host. Join the expert team at Ballard Designs
0:21.6	for tips, tricks, and tales from interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world.
0:25.9	Plus, we'll answer a listener question at the end of each show. So don't forget to send them to
0:30.0	podcast at Ballarddesigns.net. Yes, we love answering them. Now on with the show.
0:36.2	Okay, so here we are.
0:38.2	We are going to have a kind of different conversation today, but I'm really excited about it because we have three people from our product design team here on the podcast today.
0:48.1	Taryn, since you are our host, I'm going to let you introduce our two other co-host guests today. Yes. Well, as you all know,
0:57.2	we do most of our art in-house, all of our art in-house and at Ballard. And so we are a teeny,
1:05.8	but mighty team of designers. And so we have today, Zoe, who has been with Ballard for five years, and Hillary,
1:14.6	who's been here for five as well. They both joined in a kind of similar timeline, but obviously
1:21.9	we've been working together for five years now in a open concept space. So we know way too much about
1:27.4	each other. I won't go into their
1:31.2	full life backgrounds, but we are going to just kind of let Caroline lead a series of questions
1:36.7	about product design and us tell you kind of how our product comes to be at Ballard.
1:41.5	And you'll get three good different views because so we inside
1:46.5	ballard we actually work in different categories we kind of like separate our team that way
1:51.3	Zoe does a lot of accessories and wall and lighting so if you've seen a lighter chandelier you like
1:59.2	she's probably designed it. And then Hillary does
2:02.1	all of our outdoor furniture lines and all of our upholstery. So again, if you've sat on anything,
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