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DECEMBER 25, 2024


How CLEVER packaging tricked DELIVERY DRIVERS?!


Van Moof, an electric bike company from Europe, was struggling with a high rate of damages during shipping for their expensive bikes. It was costing them serious money in returns and they had tried everything. Repackaging, putting warning labels on the box … nothing worked. Then inspiration hit. The changed the packaging to show a graphic of a TV on the book and the delivery people handling the box immediately started treating it more carefully. The illusion of having a fragile item inside by showing one on the outside was the non-obvious solution to the problem. Simple design choices like this can save a company real money – but it takes the ability to see a solution everyone else misses. Have you ever noticed packaging built to solve a problem like this?

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This is a blog about non-obvious ideas. Originally launched on the Typepad platform in 2005 as the Influential Marketing blog, the stories at first focused mainly on digital marketing while Rohit worked at Ogilvy Advertising. In 2015 Rohit officially rebranded to the Non-Obvious Insights Blog and published his WSJ bestseller Non-Obvious. For the past twenty one years, this blog has coined new terms, introduced future marketing practices and inspired the next generation of non-obvious thinkers and marketers.

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