RedesignMe, a crowd sourcing website that gives consumers a platform for their problems and frustrations with daily used products, mentioned briefly in a previous Ponoko post.

Launched in October 2007 during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, RedesignMe’s goal is to improve products by collectively rethinking how they are built, work, or function.

Registration on the site is free. Here’s how it works:
- Take a picture or make a movie of your struggles with a product
- Type what you don’t like or what you think is failing on the item
- Suggest a redesign or state what you would do differently
- Let the community comment on your suggested changes

According to the site, RedesignMe collects the best product improvements based on your input and communicates that back to the original product designers & producers. RedesignMe contacts the companies behind the products in question to show them the feedback and encourages them to reply directly to the users and eventually fix the problems. RedesignMe also encourages the companies to work more closely with their end-users by setting up RDM Challanges.

RDM Challenges are conceptual or design-driven challenges initiated by companies that want to involve their customers more closely into their product development process. RDM Challenges clearly describe a (design) problem and you, the Redesigner, are rewarded for your feedback through our RDM system. Basically you collect points (RDMs) which you can later convert into prizes in our Prize Vault (Coming Soon). Your feedback can be in form of a comment, sketch, set of pictures, mood-board, movie, prototype or total redesign.
Currently there is a challenge to redesign the Betavine Mobile platform and earn one of 3 iPods Nano for the most creative feedback. This can be in form of a well thought-out comment, wishlist, sketch, webdesign, or prototype

Interesting concept if the ‘prize’ matches the prosumer input…