"https://www.chefworks.com/ces04/valencia-chef-coat"

"I admire the intersection of culinary and athletics that inspired this idea, but a few problems. First, there are already chefs coats on the market. The main supplier of chefs jackets Chef Works has an entire line of Cool Vent wear for chefs https://www.chefworks.com/cool-vent-chef-coats Competitive research is always important in the design process. Second, I'm curious if this jacket has been tested in any real way. From the photos, it looks like it's a market-ready product. I have a feeling those straps that pull up which create big loops would cause a big problem. Fast moving chefs would get caught on everything. It would also be a big safety risk in a kitchen. Ethnographic research and observations of chefs actually working in kitchens must happen to create the right jacket. "

"I love innovative business models, but this sounds like a lose / lose. Amble is basically charging a referral fee for connecting a designer to a client. This is facilitated by funds coming out of a local client's project budget. This likely sets up a poor client/designer relationship which also seems highly likely to end in failure, disappointing both the local customer and the designer. The designer's incentive, it seems, is to be able to take a more luxurious vacation in exchange for working on a brief. The immediate problems that come to mind are 1) "local" hosts would have to ensure the project is actually accomplishable in a month, which most projects aren't, nor would they be a good judge of time required with the designer removed form the brief creation and scope discussion 2) many design projects can't be accomplished by a single individual 3) what happens in a quality dispute? who's responsible? 4) pretty steep vacation price still for most designers who would be attracted to work with such small clients 5) can the designer bill the client in addition to the client paying Amble? what happens when the scope inevitably creeps? 6) what autonomy does the designer have in working with stakeholders? Sounds like a frought model to me."