Jackson Hedden

Industrial designer & founder of Jackson Hedden Inc. I help turn physical product ideas into manufacturable designs. Birmingham, AL.

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Your friend who “will never drive electric”? Put them in the back seat for free. 👀

That’s the whole play, according to him.

#tesla #cybercab #ev #electriccars #rideshare

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No unit quote yet? Good sign, actually.

Others guessed $7 and $14. The one that asked for a sample first came back at 25 cents. 👀

#manufacturing #sourcing #productsourcing #ecommercetips #businesstok

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How does one protein bar hit 150 calories and 28g of protein?

The company bought the only supplier of the ingredient. Now nobody else can copy it.

#proteinbars #businesstok #supplychain #foodtech #marketing

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100 features or one clear reason to buy?

Adding more features doesn’t automatically make a better product. If customers need a lengthy explanation to understand why they need it, your strongest selling point may be getting lost.

Great product design makes the value easy to understand.

Have a product idea? Let’s turn it into something people want to buy.

#ProductDesign #IndustrialDesign #ProductDevelopment #ConsumerProducts #Inventor #Entrepreneurship #DesignStudio #JacksonHedden

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Why does everything look the same now?

It’s not cheaper. It’s not simpler to make. Companies just don’t want 10% of people hating it.

Bland is safe. Safe sells.

#minimalism #productdesign #designtok #industrialdesign #designthinking

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Your Kickstarter order is late because the creator has never made a product before. 😬

Nobody warned them about tooling or T1 samples. Honest deadlines fix half of it.

#kickstarter #crowdfunding #productdevelopment #manufacturing #startuptips

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Best product to launch on Kickstarter? Board games.

Backers have been burned before, and paper and cards feel like the hardest thing to mess up.

#kickstarter #boardgames #crowdfunding #productlaunch #entrepreneur

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Tariffs are going to be gone. We are going to have the biggest stock market rally of all time. Tomorrow is going to be epic.

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Robots everywhere, and we still pay blacksmiths to hammer steel by hand.

AI isn’t alien tech. We built every piece of it. Designers don’t get replaced.

#aidebate #humanmade #designers #futureofwork #creativity

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Google is down 30% and this is the case for why that might not matter 👀

Netflix cannibalized its own business and won. Google may be betting on the same move with cheap AI.

#google #aitok #netflix #stockmarket #businessstrategy

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Same price. Less product. That’s shrinkflation.
When costs rise, some brands reduce what’s inside instead of raising the price on the shelf. You might miss a few ounces, but you’ll notice paying more.
The real challenge for brands is creating something people still see as worth buying.
What product have you noticed getting smaller?
#Shrinkflation #Inflation #ConsumerGoods #ProductDesign #BrandStrategy #JacksonHedden
Music: “Cipher” by Kevin MacLeod (https://t.co/IKNXdpWEys), CC BY 3.0: https://t.co/kDiidgema5 — excerpted and mixed.

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A glowing logo can sell more than you think.

It makes the upgrade visible to everyone around you. That’s where product design and status start working together.

Would the glow influence your decision?

#Apple #MacBookPro #DesignPsychology #ProductDesign #Branding #LuxuryBranding

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The Duo’s hinge is breaking screens, so why no recall?

Because a few percent of units isn’t a recall. Apple just swaps the ones that fail.

#appleduo #apple #techtok #technews #tech

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What happens when AI becomes the operating system?
My take: we’re moving toward a world where you open your computer and go straight into AI. The software you need becomes part of that experience, instead of a collection of separate apps.
If that happens, companies like Anthropic could reshape who captures the value in tech—from the software we use to the hardware running it.
Would you trade your current desktop for an AI operating system? Tell me where you think this prediction gets it right—or wrong.
#Anthropic #ClaudeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfTech #AI #FutureOfSoftware #TechTrends

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That cheap quote looks great until the samples show up.

Months of fixing what they got wrong, late-night calls, and parts that never look right. Comment “factory list” and I’ll send you the ones I trust 🏭

#productdesign #manufacturing #startuptips #consumergoods #sourcing

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This drop went live a couple days ago, and I’m wearing it.

Designed, cut and sewn in Birmingham, Alabama. 🧵

#madeinusa #cutandsew #apparelmanufacturing #birminghamalabama #clothingbrand

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Every company is trying to fit AI into a pin or a pair of glasses.

Apple didn’t win by copying what existed. The next big thing won’t either.

#ai #futureoftech #apple #productdesign #techtok

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“$400 plus $100 shipping” isn’t a discount. It’s the same $500 wearing a different shirt.

Ask for the parts list instead.

#sourcingtips #hardwarestartup #productdesign #manufacturing #engineeringtok

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Those perfect product photos might be AI, and the product might not exist.

Factories list it, wait for orders, then see if they can make it.

#aislop #productdesign #ecommerce #onlineshopping #aitok

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Ford execs told me I was wrong about AI in cars. That was nine years ago.

AI is just smart code running complex systems. Use it like a tool.

#agenticai #futureofai #selfdrivingcars #aitools #automotivetech