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Developing a new product takes a long time and plenty of resources. The need for investors to fully develop a product must come first even before a final draft can be presented to stakeholders and consumers. This is where product visualization comes in.
Product visualization is a process in which an imagined product is rendered into an image or a 3D model. When you’re marketing your product to investors, they’ll see a clearer picture of the product when using this process. In most instances, they’ll even see the product’s full potential and capacity.
The development of product visualization is a great help for companies that want to show off products they’re developing but don’t have the resources to produce a prototype yet. All you have to do is invest in a product visualizer and get someone who knows their way around it. You can even hire a firm to do it for you.
Here are some reasons why product visualization is an important aid for companies, manufacturers, and consumers:
#1 Easier Approval
Getting an approval for continued development of a product can be difficult for product designers and everyone involved in the creation process. Even if the ideas and concepts are great, investors and companies often want to see an actual product.
However, producing an actual product or a prototype is not that easy. It’s labor exhaustive and needs a lot of financial backing that may not be available to product creators.
With the help of product rendering or visualization, product creators can show investors the product, how it’s built, what the materials are, as well as the capability of the product without the actual product.
Thus, if a company deems the product to be good, pass standards, and has potential, an approval can be made without ever having to make a prototype.
#2 Assists In Product Analysis
Product analysis is an important part in product creation. It allows creators to analyze and evaluate the pros and cons of the different functionalities of their product. Product analysis also helps in detecting faulty physical features.
Without product visualization, product analysis can only be done by creating a prototype, and using it to test and analyze the product. But this doesn’t have to be the case anymore.
With thorough product visualization, you can immediately correct errors you see in the design or feature even before manufacturing begins. With developments in digital collaboration happening simultaneously, corrections can occur remotely, with all stakeholders working together via cloud-based platforms. Both product visualization and utilization of digital collaboration can help the company save both time and resources.
#3 Easier To Communicate With Consumers
The current pandemic has limited the movement of consumers. Many of them have now resorted to shopping online when buying the products that they need.
Online shopping has become the new norm for a while now and this is further reinforced by the pandemic. Some companies, as a result, use product visualization to communicate to the consumers the pros and features of their product.
Through product visualization, consumers can view 2D or 3D images of the product. You can even create a video that shows the functionality of the product to consumers. It’s much like CAD design specifically used for marketing.
This is an alternate but effective way of giving consumers the same experience they will have when they go to the store and get their hands on the actual product. With product visualization, they can see the physical appearance of the product and even experience the features it offers.
Thus, when consumers order the product, they know exactly what they’ll get even without seeing the product in person.
#4 Saves Time, Energy And Money
Product visualization has become possible with technological improvements in animation. As it allows product creators and designers to put their ideas and concepts into a 2D or 3D picture, it allows them to continuously work on it for improvements without the need to create a prototype.
Product visualization has also allowed initial product analysis without a prototype. They can nitpick the product for problems and then address them by correcting the errors.
All in all, product creators, designers, and the company itself can save time, energy, and money thanks to product visualization.
Conclusion
Product visualization is an emerging technology that many companies can benefit from. With its rapid development, having your company invest in it can be a very wise decision.
With online shopping becoming more and more popular, product visualization has become even more important to make sure that consumers are able to have the same experience they get when they hold your actual product.
If the consumer knows exactly what they are getting, then they will likely buy your product, thereby boosting your sales and consumer base.