Lead Product Designer
1 Product Designer, 1 Product Manager, 3 Developers
9 Months
Wireframing, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Prototyping
Mobile, Tablet, Desktop
We created a first-of-its-kind cross-platform 3D modeling application directly on the Toybox platform! Additionaly, unlike other 3D modeling softwares, this one is designed for 3D printing.
Wthin the first week we found that more than 53% of the overall toys being created on Toybox were from the CAD app within the first week of release!
Previously, users did not have the ability to 3D model and create their own creations from scratch. Our mission was to create a new experience for users to seamlessly 3D model and print their toy directly in the Toybox app.
To better understand what was already on the market, I conducted a competitor analysis with existing desktop and mobile 3D modeling apps.
What differed the most was that this app would be specifically designed for 3D printing.
Using the competitor analysis results, the team and I synthesized the most important features that would be needed in a 3D modeling app for Toybox.
Boolean operators, Primitive Shapes, Modify, Transform Controls (translate, rotate, scale), Copy, Split, Draw, Import
Undo/redo, Group/ungroup, Arrange objects, Layers list / Object management
Users can now seamlessly 3D model directly in the Toybox platform and 3D print their creations on any device.
The Properties panel is purely contextual to the selected object on the scene and appears within the 3D scene when clicked.
Due to the lack of screen real-estate on tablets and phones, this is a contextual menu that slides in as an overlay.