ShapeDiver in Stories
An honest account of the mistakes and moments of clarity that led ShapeDiver where it is today, and set our path for the years to come.
Mathieu Huard
Blog / Author
Mathieu Huard
Co-founder & Head of Product
Mathieu is a mathematician and co-founder, and he decides what ShapeDiver builds next. That mostly means choosing from a steady stream of good ideas (from customers, partners, and the team) and turning the platform, the Grasshopper plug-in, App Builder, and the Viewer into one consistent product. In the early years he also helped some of our first customers build their first models.
Posts by Mathieu Huard
Product Configurators Explained!
What product configurators are, why e-commerce adopted them from Nike to IKEA, and the technologies behind them, parametric design included.
Mathieu Huard
Parametric Dreams [Ep. 7] – ShapeDiver Supports Research And Innovation!
Research that used ShapeDiver, from earthbag domes to urban planning and product design, and how we support students and researchers with licenses.
Mathieu Huard
The Role Of Sliders In Product Configurators
Where sliders come from, when they help or hurt a user interface, and how to use them in product configurators for parametric products.
Mathieu Huard
Grasshopper Plugin [v1.5]: Introducing Image Tools!
Version 1.5 of the ShapeDiver plug-in adds tools to create, import, export, and process images in Grasshopper, with uses in product configurators.
Mathieu Huard
MCPC 2017: Key Insights From The Mass Customization Summit
Key insights from the MCPC 2017 mass customization summit: Joseph Pine on 'customering', and why product configurators change from year to year.
Mathieu Huard
Marketing Basics for Product Configurators
Marketing questions to settle before launching a 3D product configurator: the moments of truth, and how to segment customers by knowledge and involvement.
Mathieu Huard
Online 3D Configurators: 6 Use Cases
Six companies that sell custom products online with 3D configurators, from Bikeconfig and Tylko to Nervous System, and what each does well.
Mathieu Huard
The Secret Life Of Parameters
What parametric design means: the schools of thought, Greg Lynn's definition, the confusion around the term, and exploring the design space.
Mathieu HuardWhat is Shapediver?
ShapeDiver as its founders described it in 2016: a web service for publishing parametric 3D data, and why they wanted to bring parametric modeling to the web.
Mathieu Huard