Feedback needed for a feature

Here's my feedback: https://ibb.co/nnYLwn3

Thinking in 3D is generally hard for people, and turning users into CAD designers ends up leading to high-maintenance and high-touch support. Having worked on several 3D CAD applications in the past for non-CAD-designer users, I've faced many of these headaches head-on (so to speak :).

If there is a specific customer need you are trying to address with this feature, I'd start from that use case, and only provide controls that directly address that use case. What is the specific use case? "Box design" wouldn't be enough; maybe your users want non-symmetrical box shapes. In that case, just have very simple controls for the dimensions. You also want to make sure that any mistakes the user makes are easily fixable by them. Did they move the slider too far to the right? They should be able to fix it by moving it back to the left.

The fact that there are controls for layers in the UI, for example, will already create challenges for users. As an engineer highly experienced in 3D graphics, even I don't know what the layers do.

Some people tend to suggest having a "basic" and "advanced" mode. I would caution against that, and suggest that you simply be judicious about how much of the design is automated, and how much is controlled by UI widgets.

HTH :)

Pretty cool tool and service! I used to work in advertising and marketing, and one of the things we had to do all the time was designing boxes for clothing and other retail products for some of our clients.

We had an in-house designer using Adobe Illustrator for this and I remember us having lots of challenges getting the flaps fit correctly once the box was put together. We usually had to get this fixed by the box manufacturing company and it was time consuming.

Regarding your product, you have a niche. You should probably ask your customers, they'll be the ones providing better feedback than us, at least the kind of feedback you're looking for here. I played around with it a little, and it looks good. But if I had to design boxes as part of my job, I would probably tell you a hundred things.

Best of luck!

Wow, this looks cool!

I was really impressed by the animation, and I could draw text and shapes on the box and watch it live in the right pane.

That said, I don't really know what you want feedback on. For future feedback requests, I'd recommend being more specific on that so that you actually get feedback on the topics that are important to you.