Bringing your idea to life takes guts. Especially when you’re an independent designer or the founder of a fresh start-up. As you work through the process of building, prototyping and preparing your design with your Industrial design firm, there’s a good chance you’ll find yourself outgrowing your home office, garage or favorite coffee shop. It might be a good time to consider a co-working space to make your next move.
Even if you’re working with an industrial design firm like MAKO Design, a co-working hub can offer supplemental resources and opportunities that can help with other parts of your new business.
A co-working space is a great spot to make new connections that may help you in and out of your industry.
Find Focus for Your Project With a Fresh Perspective
With the sheer volume and variety of co-working spaces available, you’re getting much more than a change of scenery. Unlike your neighborhood coffee shop, co-working hubs and shared office spaces offer the room to hunker down and work, with desks and private meeting rooms. They also offer open spaces that foster a collaborative atmosphere.
While you, literally, have the ability to change perspectives on any given day, getting out of a familiar place like your home office can give you that extra creativity boost. Much like building an atmosphere for new discoveries when it comes to your project and collaborating with your industrial design firm.
A fresh environment will help give you a fresh look in your project.
Build Your Network With a Built-in Community
One of the major benefits of co-working spaces is the different types of people you’ll run into. While some spaces do cater to specific industries, most have a wide breadth of skills represented. Developers, industrial designers, community managers, you name it, chances are they’re lurking somewhere.
As you continue to grow your business, you’ll probably encounter issues that don’t speak to your specific know-how. Maybe writing a marketing plan is foreign to you, or you’re buried beneath your prototype testing data, having a varied network of people you can tap into will help in the long run.
Co-working spaces frequently host social events, professional development seminars and impromptu gatherings for members. They give you the freedom to work how you need to, and provide a professional looking home base for meeting partners or prospective investors, or just brainstorming with your industrial design firm!
Article Author: MAKO Design + Invent
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MAKO Design + Invent is a full-service consumer product development firm servicing both high-growth corporate manufacturers and invention startups. With a 25-person team across 3 offices (Austin, England, Toronto), MAKO has complete in-house industrial design, mechanical Engineering, and electrical engineering design and prototyping services. To assist our start-up inventor clients, we also have a subsidiary branch called Mako Invent that, in addition to above, helps start-ups with patenting, strategy, marketing, and sales/distribution for all consumer product categories. For our corporate clients, MAKO Design develops world-class consumer electronics designs through our industrial, mechanical, and electrical design teams.
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