S01-E01 (3 January 2021) This is the beginning of my sketchbook, where I share experiences and ideas about technology, product management and entrepreneurship.
Did you ever think about IKEA? I've been on the same kitchen-quest as you do until I found that IKEA has an online-planner: you can build your kitchen and get a quote directly from their website, IMHO it's worth a try...
Nicola thank you for sharing. I got a similar experience this summer. I was adapting my kitchen to a new house project.
I'd like to share my experience because it highlighted my actual consciousness about the fact that self-service is not for everything and I will read the book ... but ....
The story
I suppose to be able to do everything by myself. My father is an architect and I'm familiar with cad and measures... so done a beautiful 3d model is highlighting me that my 4.33m of linear kitchen will be fine for the 4.1 of the wall...
It didn't fit!!
After every kind of 3D cad online self service tool available I accepted the evidence... i step down, and accepted that I was in need of the support of the expert, as Serena (my wife) was supposing since the beginning.
And it has been done. Not without experiments and test since I met the right experienced owner of the store , mrs. MARISA (thank you).
Now I have my kitchen in place. I saved money and stress (too late!!).
At the end of the story it's true what you are saying about the online kitchen sales process but on the other hand...
probably there is no formula but experience
we still need a designer, an architect and an experienced sales person to support this process because, as you are learning the kitchen projects hides a lot of secret to became the lovely kitchen we now have and not the hell to obtain something different. So experience it doesn't means only our UX but it is a mix of empathy and history of each single passionate person that is behind. We are Italians (as the misspelled words and grammar of my post highlights) we curious and genial but we are passionate and it means that the cold picture of an one catalogue sometimes are not the solution but ar part of human driven process based on passion and experience.
Happy new year my friend
Pier (@pierfrac)
Please apologies any typo, it has been written with a small keyboard
Did you ever think about IKEA? I've been on the same kitchen-quest as you do until I found that IKEA has an online-planner: you can build your kitchen and get a quote directly from their website, IMHO it's worth a try...
Nicola thank you for sharing. I got a similar experience this summer. I was adapting my kitchen to a new house project.
I'd like to share my experience because it highlighted my actual consciousness about the fact that self-service is not for everything and I will read the book ... but ....
The story
I suppose to be able to do everything by myself. My father is an architect and I'm familiar with cad and measures... so done a beautiful 3d model is highlighting me that my 4.33m of linear kitchen will be fine for the 4.1 of the wall...
It didn't fit!!
After every kind of 3D cad online self service tool available I accepted the evidence... i step down, and accepted that I was in need of the support of the expert, as Serena (my wife) was supposing since the beginning.
And it has been done. Not without experiments and test since I met the right experienced owner of the store , mrs. MARISA (thank you).
Now I have my kitchen in place. I saved money and stress (too late!!).
At the end of the story it's true what you are saying about the online kitchen sales process but on the other hand...
probably there is no formula but experience
we still need a designer, an architect and an experienced sales person to support this process because, as you are learning the kitchen projects hides a lot of secret to became the lovely kitchen we now have and not the hell to obtain something different. So experience it doesn't means only our UX but it is a mix of empathy and history of each single passionate person that is behind. We are Italians (as the misspelled words and grammar of my post highlights) we curious and genial but we are passionate and it means that the cold picture of an one catalogue sometimes are not the solution but ar part of human driven process based on passion and experience.
Happy new year my friend
Pier (@pierfrac)
Please apologies any typo, it has been written with a small keyboard