For 15 years, MESH01 testers have shaped product innovation through real-world feedback. Meet Theo Grayson, a longtime tester whose adventurous lifestyle and honest insights have influenced product development across industries. Discover her journey, key learnings, and the impact of community-driven testing.
For 15 years, MESH01 has helped top brands unlock game-changing, pre-market insights—powered by the voices of real testers. Curious how it all began? Here’s the story.
As we celebrate 15 years of consumer feedback innovation, learn more about our origins in crowdsourced product design and founding passion for people and product.
In 2024, our community of product testers once again collaborated with leading brands to craft exceptional products, offering feedback that far surpasses the typical survey panel. Don’t miss our 2024 Tester Spotlights!
See how your feedback as a MESH01 tester drives innovation, shapes products, and ensures successful launches for top brands like Kizik, L.L. Bean, and Jetboil.
Discover the power of product iteration and the vital role you play as a MESH01 Product Tester. Learn how real-world feedback refines designs, improves quality, and shapes market-ready products, with insights into success stories like L.L.Bean’s product evolution. See how your testing drives innovation and creates products that truly meet customer needs.
Ever wonder how materials and technologies are chosen? MESH01 product testers play a crucial role by offering real-world feedback, enabling top brands to refine materials for superior comfort, durability, and performance that align with consumer expectations.
Discover the critical role of prototyping in product development, where early models are tested and refined to meet consumer expectations. Learn how MESH01 product testers contribute real-world feedback that shapes and perfects market-ready products
During the initial stages of product design, creators turn early concepts into practical designs. Learn how your feedback as a MESH01 product tester plays a vital role in bringing these ideas to life.
As a MESH01 product tester, your feedback is vital throughout the product development process, helping brands refine products to meet real consumer needs and ensuring successful market launches.
To us, community means connection, shared values, and a shared pursuit of common goals. In the MESH01 Community, every contribution matters, and everyone has the chance to make a meaningful impact.
Discover the impact of your feedback as a MESH01 Product Tester. In a world where every dollar counts, your insights help shape products that truly matter, guiding brands in creating functional, desirable, and well-priced items.
The MESH01 Product Tester Community provides exactly what brands need: insightful and relevant feedback from real users. Read more about how as a MESH01 Product Tester, your unique perspective is exactly what brands are seeking to shape the future of their products.
Being a MESH01 Product Tester is so much more than giving a review; it’s providing brands the critical feedback they need to create great products for thousands of consumers just like you.
At MESH01, we believe that behind every great product lies an even greater product tester. Learn more about your impact on the products you love as a MESH01 Product Tester.
As a MESH01 Tester, your feedback in concept testing guides brands to create products that match your personal style and meet your needs. Your style, your way. Click to learn more.
Discover how the MESH01 Product Tester Community helps brands overcome fashion challenges by connecting with brands, providing real feedback, influencing designs, and ensuring high-quality, stylish, and functional products that exceed customer expectations.
Learn more about how the MESH01 Community shapes the future of workwear and ensures new products meet the rigorous demands of modern workplaces through real-world product and concept testing
The future of outdoor equipment depends on you. Discover how your feedback as a MESH01 Product Tester helps brands develop high-performance gear that thrives in real-world conditions.
Discover how brands break through barriers of innovation standstills and embrace groundbreaking strategies like MESH01 to redefine their creative processes and product development.
Technical design expert Myranda Caputo of Bespoke Branded Fit details how new product development technologies can result in better products on shorter lead times.
The Pre-Launch Testing phase of the Product Development process allows you to engage your core customers in hands-on testing to gain authentic feedback, while you can still make changes.
Discover how feedback from the MESH01 Product Tester Community assists brands in gaining a deeper understanding of sizing and fit as women’s apparel evolves.
Through MESH01 Product Testing, you can access products before they even hit the shelves. In this post, we will take a look at how your product testing feedback helps brands confidently bring great products to the market.
Through MESH01 Concept Testing, you can access products, ideas, and designs before they even hit the shelves. In this post, we will take a look at how your concept testing feedback helps brands confidently bring their ideas to life.
Again in 2023, our community of product testers has continued to work hand-in-hand with top brands to create extraordinary products by providing feedback that goes way beyond the ordinary survey panel. Check out our Tester Spotlights of 2023!
Your customers are the voice of your brand. Leaning on them during the product development process could lead to a successful product launch, increased brand loyalty, and brand awareness.
Post-launch feedback can give you a great snapshot of how your product is doing or will do, in the marketplace. However, not all feedback is beneficial. With the MESH01 Platform, you can easily navigate through the information you’ve collected so you can see the big picture.
The emergence of NIL legislation has breathed new life into the world of college athletics. By allowing college athletes to monetize their name, image, and likeness, athletes now can thrive in ways like never before. Learn more about how college athletes have the opportunity to impact the world of products for the better.
As parents, we are continuously trying to learn more about our children’s interests and connect with them on their experiences, activities, and even the products our kids use on a daily basis. In this article, we’ll look at how parents and kids are sharing the product experience through technology.
Brands that lean into pre-market, consumer-based product testing can differentiate themselves with products they know their customers will love. Learn how companies are enhancing their product creation processes with product testing, allowing them to create great product experiences and allocate resources more intentionally.
Thousands of Parent Product Testers on MESH01 enjoy knowing they’ve played a direct role in ensuring the relevance and quality of kids’ clothing and footwear for kids and parents everywhere. Learn more about how your child’s feedback shapes the future of products for countless other families, parents, and children.
Whether brands have an existing children’s shoe product line or are looking to expand into the children’s footwear market, product testing provides an ideal opportunity to create a better product for the developing and growing foot.
There are several key steps that are necessary to implement an effective voice of the customer feedback loop in your organization. Learn more about how product teams can establish and capitalize on effective continuous feedback loops that help deliver exceptional product experiences.
Trends are constantly morphing, and product creation is in a state of evolution. With the help of new purpose-built pre-market feedback technologies, brands can have a better idea on how to meet their customers’ expectations and stay on trend.
This year, we have finally gotten to chance to showcase our amazing tester community with the new Tester Spotlight series on our Instagram and Facebook. Check out our Tester Spotlights of 2022!
2022 was a big year for MESH01 – not only for our team, but also for our dedicated community of product testers. As a MESH01 tester, you have opportunities to work directly with world-leading brands to help them ensure that they’re going to market with the right products and the best products. In 2022, we did just that! Learn more about how our community played a role in our success here at MESH01 in 2022.
Making assumptions about consumer preferences, or sacrificing concept or product testing altogether – increases the chances your product will become excess inventory that is unsold or must be subject to major mark-downs.
Testing products already in your inventory allows you to identify areas for improvement and enhancement that will update these products to meet customers’ evolving needs. Through product testing, your brand can take customer favorites and continue to generate sales.
More and more companies are holding themselves accountable and are working towards creating more sustainable products and processes. As brands explore their options, pre-market feedback platforms are proving to be effective first steps for becoming both responsive and responsible.
When you empower employees with the right tools and technology, attracting and retaining talent becomes much easier to achieve. Learn how your company can realize greater customer and employee satisfaction with a single-platform product testing solution.
Where ratings and reviews programs look to gather the voice of the customer after a product has already been launched, product testing is most commonly done before a product is launched. Here, the goal of the engaged consumer is to help brands make the best products and create the best product experience possible.
Despite the current climate, many companies are finding that engaging their customers for product-level feedback before product launch is putting their brand in a stronger position to weather operational challenges and increase their market share.
As a MESH01 tester, you’ll have opportunities to work directly with world-leading brands to help them ensure that they’re going to market with the right products and the best products. Exciting, we know! Here, we’ll give you an idea of what’s expected of you -and what to expect- as a MESH01 tester.
We know consumer buying habits and priorities have shifted as a direct result of the pandemic and related economic challenges, but they’re still buying – and new product testing methods are helping brands ensure they launch the right products to meet changing demands.
Concept testing and product testing are essential steps in developing quality products, and your feedback plays a critical role in determining whether a product is ready to hit the market or needs improvement. Learn more about how you shape the world of products around you as a MESH01 tester.
Research shows that up to 72% of people are wearing incorrectly fitting shoes. Figuring out your shoe size is easy to do. Do your feet a favor and get to know your measurements to improve your daily life and get the best out of your product testing experience.
Jetboil needed to better understand a market opportunity among its diverse backpacking and camping customers for an even lighter high-performance stove system.
Product development teams are up against a lot of pressure in today’s consumer-driven markets. In this post, we’ll explore common product development challenges and look at how each can be addressed using data collected from a pre-market Voice of the Customer solution built for the product development process.
As the country continues to grapple with challenging change, more families will be incorporating the positive effects of time spent outdoors into their lives – and many in lasting ways. In this Trend Insight, we explore expectations, preferences and shopping habits of families spending time together outside.
For many active and outdoor customers, this past year has brought change to “staying fit”. In this Trend Insight, we explore how these new trends are highlighting the material-savvy customer’s potential impacts on the functional fabrics market, in activewear and beyond.
MESH01 announced today the appointment of Tim Penasack as President, leveraging his corporate strategy and business development experience as MESH01 navigates continued growth and deeper relationships with many of the world’s largest and most recognized brands and retailers.
3D digital product models and renderings are enriching the concept testing experience, building a pathway for more pre-market insights – and confidence – than ever before. In this article, we’ll explore how 3D is enhancing pre-market Voice of the Customer solutions for product development.
Matching product testing timelines to the conditions your product was designed for can either be continuously challenging or reliably easy. The difference lies in your ability to access relevant product testers who can provide condition-specific testing for your product, and gather their feedback efficiently.
Learn how access to product testers and deep profile information can accelerate your product testing while allowing your brand to avoid costly process compromises that put your feedback timeliness and quality at risk.
Whether you’re an experienced market researcher or interested in launching your first concept test, you will want to make sure you are covering the fundamentals. This checklist is designed to help you frame up your concept testing goals, gather your sample, develop your survey, and launch an effective concept test with ease.
These 3 key elements are foundational for successful concept testing, and they help you optimize your opportunity to collect relevant feedback through technologies designed to be intuitive and fast enough for your team’s product development and merchandising processes.
If your teams have only been ideating internally, it’s time to start including your customers. And when that group is selected using extensive bio-attributes, work and activity information, you can generate valuable insights from testers that you can trust. In this post, we’ll introduce the value and some key elements of successful concept testing.
Product development models all include testing stages, and all are different: different research design, different testing requirements…you may be testing your products at both the concept and product stages, but are those stages connected and leveraged?
It’s critical in today’s fast-moving consumer landscape to tap into your target user community and understand the trends that are driving product preferences.
