2. Understand the Client’s Requirement:

You need to understand the customer’s requirement about the packaging design. The customer can also give you instructions about the design. Sometimes he can ask you to give him designing ideas, so he can choose one of them. For this purpose, you need to have more than one designing ideas to satisfy the customer. At this point, you need to be more creative to bring multiple designing ideas for a customer.

3. Keep it Unique:

You need to bring a unique idea for packaging. You can get inspiration by checking out different products in the market. Complete information about the product and its benefits can help you to conceive a good designing idea. Inspiration is different from copying other’s ideas. Copying others can cause problems for your product, which can be a moral or legal issue in the case of copyrights.

4. Think About the Packaging Material:

Before thinking about any packaging design, you need to understand the packaging material. Take an in-depth look and check both primary and secondary packaging material.

If it is your duty to select packaging material, then you need to take special care when opting for packaging content. Select the material that ensures full product freshness, safety, and consumer attraction.

While secondary packaging is the additional packing of products for storage and transportation activities. Choose the packaging style based on the ease with which it can be packaged in outer containers.

5. Think About the Client’s Budget:

The client’s budget is also very important while selecting a packaging design. You need to make a packaging design that is under the client’s given range. If you design luxury packaging which goes beyond the client’s range, it is useless.

You can omit different things to cut packaging costs. A plastic sheet can replace a piece of glass to reduce the cost. The use of colorful and fancy labels can replace the craft design and luxury printings.

6. Check the Competitors:

Packaging plays a vital role in creating competition in the market. The right tactical move for packaging can make you the best in the market. While a single mistake throws you out of the market.

It is very important for you to check your competitors before starting the designing process for packaging. The packaging is directly linked with the price factor. If you want to compete with your rival for pricing in the market, you need to check their approach first.

After a thorough reading, you need to decide on the packaging material and design. Select a good combination of both which will help you give a good competition to your rivals.

7. Think Like a Customer:

You are designing the packaging of a product for the customer. To conceive a good design; you need to think like a customer. Think that, if you are the customer, what would you demand from the company? What are your needs about the packaging of your product?

When you got an answer to these questions, you will have an idea. You need to elaborate your idea to the client and tell him about the pros and cons of your design idea. It will help him to make a brief decision, and it will also enhance his trust in you.

8. Critical Analysis:

Critical analysis of your packaging design is very important. It helps you to find out the flaws in your idea. It gives a chance to fix the problems before the customer highlights them or argue over them.

9. Focus on Visuals:

Use patterns that represent your brand properties and not just your packaging. Custom patterns will bring an enticing aspect to your packaging design by adding interesting colors, curves, and other design trends to effectively highlight your brand’s distinctive visual style.

One of the most successful ways to cater to the clients is by visually attracting their interest. Creating a wide label with high-definition photographs and a well-positioned logo on your product’s packaging can attract customers’ attention towards your items. Graphic designing jobs are planned to produce packaging concepts that provide a visual appeal to the public as well as to express the product

10. Highlight the Product Story:

Every product comes with a history. This history can be its creation story, its evolution process, or the story of gaining the trust of the masses. This story can be sold to people by printing it on the packaging. Some companies are already using these techniques in their packaging. They are also highlighting it in their advertisement campaigns.

This technique helps to generate trust among the audience by manipulating their thinking and decision process through the repetition of message.

11. Keep it Compact:

Do not make bigger designs that consume more space and packaging material. It will increase the packaging cost as well as the storage and transportation cost. Think about these elements and try to have a compact design that fulfills the 3P’s of packaging.

12. Visualize the Design:

Visualize the design and bring it to paper or computer screen. There are different software applications that provide 3D visualization of the design. It helps to bring your thoughts on the screen, and after critical analysis, flaws can be fixed at the right time.

13. Focus on Packaging Practicality:

Not just the sticker or wrap, Practicality deals with the actual usage, real form, scale, and versatility of the packaging. The more realistic your product is, the more sales it receives. Practicality alone can overcome all of the problems of packaging design.

Practicality is directly linked with usability. A cardboard knife with a pizza box increases its usability and provides an ease to the customers. A spoon holder with the tea-box and a can opener on the beverages can are the key examples of increasing practicality.

Customers are always in a hurry. So, try to make the packaging of your product easy to hold, reseal and make instant use of it.

14. Select the Best Illustration:

An illustration is worth 1,000 words. The packaging is intended to secure the goods, but it will hide the real product within the packaging. It triggers the buyers’ consciousness. He may think that how the product looks or works? Advertising photography fits in to answer these concerns. If your product is tightly tucked inside your packaging, use photography to answer any of the questions your customers can have about color, scale, etc.

15. Check Legal Perspective:

You need to think about the legal perspective of the design. It should not be a copy of some other designer. It can cause legal problems, which can result in fines or a written apology. These things damage the integrity of the company, and it also damages economically.

One can get inspiration from other’s ideas, product types, ingredients of the product, or even from sometime else. But you cannot copy someone’s design.

You need to avoid the elements which trigger the emotions of some specific group or community or goes against some culture. These things need to be cross checked to avoid any problems in the future.