What is category design?

Teaching a new aisle. Expensive. Optional. Not the default.

  • Typeglossary
  • AuthorNarayan Prasath

Category design (Play Bigger) is creating a market category and making your product the example of it. It needs budget, time, and a problem buyers do not already have words for. Most B2B teams should pick an existing frame of reference instead.

When it is the wrong move

If buyers already compare you to a known tool, you are in an existing category. Inventing a name they will not search is a branding exercise, not category design.

what is category design FAQs

Dunford vs category design?

Dunford usually picks an existing category. Category design creates one. Do not run both as the first play.