To make a well working phone stand requires a lot of experience in the matter, or, make improvements off a base design with user feedback until it’s working well enough. As I am no subject matter expert, I went with the second option. The design went through 8 different iterations, and the first problem to tackle was to have a something that allows it to change the angle the phone is held at. This involved a holder component connect to the rest of the stand with a pivot, and using either a support or friction to set/fix the angle to what the user wants. The second design requirement was to improve the speed of production, reducing the time it takes to make one Phone Stand, from the initial design of ~36 hours, down to ~12 hours halfway through the design process, to under 6 hours of the latest design. This vastly improves production rates of the Phone Stand, from .6 per day to 4 per day, all done by designing the phone stands to take advantage of the particularities of 3D printing, where it is much faster at printing wide and long, but much slower at printing with height, and design became more and more ‘flat’ through the process. These, along with having my own 3D printer, means that I was able to quickly learn these lessons and implement them, and further gaining more experience with designing for manufacture while still having a functional mechanism.