The amount of work involved in manufacturing a product is often taken for granted in our fast fashion, private label Amazon culture. Consumer goods are so abundant, it’s easy to assume that the process of bringing them to market is simple. In reality, when you hand a custom design tech pack off to the manufacturer, the ride has just begun. Depending on the complexity of the product, it may take 4 to 5 rounds of sampling to create a production ready sample. Through this process, the product evolves due to cost, quality, and other design considerations, and becomes the best version of itself.