Packaging Design for DTC: What Matters and What Doesn't

Kavya Mehra 3 min readJuly 16, 2024

Unboxing > outside design

Inside is where buyer emotion happens. Invest here. Outside needs to survive shipping and convey basic category — that's it.

Recycled, recyclable, minimal. Customers increasingly care. 'Plastic-free' earns more goodwill than 'metallic foil'.

Thank-you card with QR code to review request. Converts 15-30% of package openers into reviews. Best 10-cent ROI in DTC.

Most brand color systems stop at 'brand red + black + white'. Here's the full system you need.

A 3-day brand sprint format that aligns stakeholders and eliminates post-launch strategy drift.

Photography direction documents that photographers use vs the 40-slide ones they ignore.

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