February 6, 2011
Designing packaging for Jellypods
Packaging of Jellypods has been something we have considered right from the start, as part of the Blue Ocean approach.
We’ve been through a wide range iterations, from external to internal, from lots to none, but now we have started to zero in on a couple of concepts.
The mainline thinking of packaging Jellypods has always been around allowing people to see and feel the product on the shelf, while also having the benefits and value of the product explained visually to the potential buyer.
It also can’t cost the earth – there’s no point working so hard to cost optimize the basic product only to add 30% extra cost for a wrapper.
That set of goals is encapsulated in the latest designs for a wraparound package which is shown below:
However, one other option that is still seriously under consideration is to avoid external packaging altogether. In a Blue Ocean sense, this makes a lot of sense – it eliminates something that maybe adds little value.
Crocs, a story we mentioned earlier on the blog, deliberately decided to place their products out in the open air, with zero packaging, to show the wide variety of colours.
Jellypods have a convenient little Jelly-shaped hanging hole built into the ziptabs that would make this a very viable option, and because the product is crystal clear, it would be quite easy to put all “packaging detail” inside the Jellypod itself. What do you think?
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