{"id":46,"date":"2026-10-11T06:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/why-the-first-model-is-always-made-of-card\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:23:10","slug":"why-the-first-model-is-always-made-of-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/why-the-first-model-is-always-made-of-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the first model is always made of card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first question about any product is size, and it is the one most often answered too late (sample note).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A card mock-up takes an afternoon. It is ugly, it is flat in places and it falls over, but you can hold it over a mug, put it in a bag or stand it on a desk. On the Pour kettle, the card model showed in ten minutes that a 0.8-litre kettle was far too big for one cup.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Make three sizes, keep one, and throw the rest away. Nothing later in the project is ever that cheap again.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An afternoon, a craft knife and some tape answer the most expensive question in product design (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}