{"id":713,"date":"2011-01-12T15:39:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/713-reflections-from-a-new-product-lead.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:07:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:07:58","slug":"reflections-from-a-new-product-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/reflections-from-a-new-product-lead","title":{"rendered":"Reflections from a new Product Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- s9ymdb:3167 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"154\" style=\"float: right; border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nancy3-small2.jpg\" alt=\"\">I&#8217;m Nancy, the new product lead of content and materials. For the past week, I&#8217;ve been getting up to speed on our offerings, building office tables, and meeting Shapeways colleagues. I&#8217;d like to take some time and share my very early stage, initial reflections with you guys.<\/p>\n<p>Creators are gaining popularity. In my search for the most X (popular, sales, ordered), easy-to-use creators are consistently appearing on top. In the future, I want to work on making more of these available for our community members who are not experts in 3D modeling.<\/p>\n<p>Stainless Steel orders are high in demand, but not without its quirks. It is one of the most in-demand materials. However, production tends to take longer and models may stall for one reason or another. I want to dig into this problem, and work to provide a more consistent service and better set expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Shapeways product category is diverse&#8230; and evenly diverse. The number of models in each category (as well as sales, views, etc.) was more evenly distributed than I expected. This means the community is growing past early adopter and niche users, leading to a wider variety and more even distribution of product categories. <\/p>\n<p>In case you are interested, out of the statistics I looked out (most views, most sales, most ordered, most this and that)&#8230; the following designs stood out at the top, just to name a few. Congrats!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/24470\/gyroid.html\">Gyroid<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/shops\/bathsheba\">Bathsheba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/143039\/road_popper.html\">Road Popper<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/shops\/chromoly\">Pick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/63055\/logo_branding_iron_cricket_electronic.html?gid=sg18660\">Text\/Logo Branding Iron Cricket<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/shops\/byshapeways\">byShapeways<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/146050\/padfoot___stand_for_ipad.html\">PadFoot &#8211; stand for iPad<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/shops\/michiel_cornelissen\">Michiel Cornelissen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/127683\/pod____porter___neckband_for_ipod_shuffle.html\">Pod a porter &#8211; neckband for iPod shuffle<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/shops\/michiel_cornelissen\">Michiel Cornelissen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/2748\/lightpoem_for_led_candle.html?gid=mg\">Lightpoem for LED candle<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/shops\/byshapeways\">byShapeways<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/147727\/octopus_ring_1.html?gid=mg\">Octopus Ring<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/shops\/nullobject\">nullnetwork<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See you guys (and your designs) around Shapeways!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Nancy, the new product lead of content and materials. 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