Us & Autodesk
We’ve been working with Autodesk for nine years, and I have been using Autodesk products for 20 years. Here’s an article they wrote on some of our recent work.
Nine years of BDH!
Nine years baby! The last year has been great, consisting of an interesting collection of client projects. We’ve been busy developing a category defining line of beer brewing & soda carbonization products, an innovative water treatment shower head, and interesting consumer electronics project with fully integrated custom PCBs. We’re carrying the momentum on into the new year and look forward to what’s next. Maybe your project finds a place in our 2025 pipeline!
BDH is a Top LA Design Firm at DesignRush!
Happy to announce that we are featured as the top Los Angeles product design company at DesignRush!
Shop Talk with Autodesk
I had the great pleasure of chatting with Autodesk about the future of design & manufacturing, and a bit about what we’re doing here at BDH!
BDH is Eight Years Old
What a contrast to last years update.
BDH did rise from the ashes, resulting from a highly concentrated effort to level up. This included revamping our engagement structure to be more client focused than ever, onboarding new technology, working with new vendors, and moving office locations. We’ve delivered six end-to-end product development projects to happy clients and had our best financial year ever. Additionally, we’ve continued development on our current internal project launch, Lair.
Thank you to our long-term clients who chose to continue to work with us, and to our new clients who chose to engage with us for their product design needs.
We’re going to continue delivering great working relationships and massive value in 2024.
Another Cocofloss Product to Production!
It was such a pleasure designing & bringing this mega floss dispenser to life with Cocofloss. Now available for purchase by dental professionals!
Shoutout LA Magazine Interview
I recently chatted with Shoutout LA Magazine. Read the article here to see some of my thoughts on building businesses in the technology space.
Guide to 3D Printing Technologies & Materials
Our friends at Formlabs have put together this helpful video and guide to help you understand various 3D printing methods and available material properties. At BDH, we have FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling), SLA (Stereolithography), and SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) 3D printers.
Deal Structure: Introducing a Lower Cost of Entry to Engage Us
All except one of our past clients started as a fixed fee, defined scope of work deal. Most of our fixed fee client projects have been in $20k - $150k range. Some of those clients with ongoing product development pipelines converted to a monthly retainer model.
I’m going to flip the deal structure a bit and start offering $20k - $30k monthly retainer deals to new clients. On our end, I’m hoping this increases conversion and reduces time spent selling so we can spend more time designing. On the clients end, this lowers the cost to engage our firm and gives freedom for changing needs at a defined product development capital expenditure.
We schedule projects and capacity in a way where our quality of work, timelines, and client relationships are at the highest level (just see what our past clients have to say). This will not change.