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What do you do when your design will fit on *most* of the shapes for a product, but not all of them? 

For example, I created a car magnet that comes in rectangles with different ratios.  https://www.zazzle.com/progress_pride_flag_car_magnet-256034263106926189 

I’ve thought of:

  • create separate products and choose “this shape and style only” … but how to name them?

  • redesign so it would fit on all? I’ve extended stripes (in procreate, etc) out to the bleed before, but if I get it to look good on a square in the design tool on Z, will it look okay in rectangle, or vice versa?

For the above magnet, it works on two of the shapes, but I would have to redesign for it to fit on others. In fact, I started doing that on a different product (one with circle, oval, etc.). In that one, it is easier to change the title to make it obviously not a duplicate. But rectangle ones that just have slightly different ratios?

I’m concerned a user might buy one with white edges and be disappointed.  

Thanks.

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I’ve given up in a number of cases and simply hope the customer immediately sees when a design doesn’t fit a particular shape. It’s not the best solution, of course.

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I put a note in my writeup to let customers know the shape or orientation for which my design is best optimized.

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Thank you both! I’ll try the note and see if it helps.

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it helps only if they read it :wink: … but at the end of the day, there’s only so much we can do to make the customer experience a better one. :slightly_smiling_face: 

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Particularly since our descriptions have been moved down into the Grand Canyon. :tired_face:

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yes, I know <sigh> 

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I’ve read, and have also been told that these concerns aren’t anything to get excited about because there are few instances where a customer is OK’ing a terrible misfit, so I don’t worry about it, like, at all.

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A while back, I suggested a solution whereby the designer could use check boxes to denote which shapes/sizes etc the design should go on if they wanted to be specific about shapes/sizes (otherwise it could go on all shapes, as it does now).  But alas…

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