At simplehuman, our mission is to create products that make life easier and more efficient. Like everything else in life, this is a process. Sometimes we design a great product right out of the gate and other times, we go through round after round of design, testing and re-testing, listening to consumer feedback, re-engineering features, until we get something that really seems to get the job done better. Our goal in starting this blog is to open up this process.

How can we improve? Which products do you like, which products frustrate you? Are there other tasks throughout the house you wish were easier, and do you think there is a product that could really help? Do you have other hints about how to deal with stressful situations, how to manage time, how to live more efficiently that you would like to share? Let us know.

We would like this forum to be a place where we learn from each other about how to make our lives a little bit easier. If sometimes this results in us coming up with a great new product—wonderful, but it is equally important to put ourselves in a position of listening and learning to new ideas.

About the editor:

Evelyn Krasnow Rumble is Director of Communications for simplehuman. Feel free to contact her directly at evelyn@simplehuman.com with any questions or if you have any good training tips for Togo (pronounced Toe-go), her seven-month old French Bulldog.