Design: where yes gets easy
Design is where the project starts to feel real. Source the pieces, explore ideas, build the boards, and show your client what you see.
But the pretty part shouldn't live separately from the project underneath it.
In Materio, the products you source, the boards you compose, the pricing you present, and the decisions your team and client make all stay connected to the same scope you started in Planning.
So when the client says yes, that yes is already part of the project, ready for what comes next.
Design Library
Your firm has good taste. Your software should remember it.
Build a library of the products, vendors, pricing, and go-to pieces you come back to again and again, ready to use on the next project.
What it does
Save the products your firm sources into one shared Design Library.
Keep the imagery, vendor, product details, pricing, and your firm's pricing rules with the product, then pull it into a project whenever it fits.
Add products directly or save them as you source with the Selections Clipper. Over time, the library becomes a curated catalog of the pieces your firm actually uses, not a generic product database you have to sift through.
Why it's different
You already did the work when you found the perfect sconce last year.
You shouldn't have to find it, download the image, look up the vendor, and rebuild the pricing all over again.
Materio lets the knowledge your firm creates on one project become useful on the next.
And when you bring a library product into a project, it isn't just a picture you dragged onto a board. It becomes part of the project itself, ready to carry through design, pricing, decisions, approval, and purchasing.
Your Design Library gets better every time you use it.
Where it fits
The Design Library is the bridge between sourcing and the project.
Pull from it while building scope, use its products on boards, present them to clients, then keep those same products moving into Procurement once they're approved.
The sourcing work you do today should make tomorrow's project easier.
Selections Clipper
See something good? Clip it before the tab disappears.
Save products from around the web into Materio while you're sourcing, without stopping to copy, paste, download, rename, and clean everything up later.
What it does
The Selections Clipper is a Chrome extension that opens beside the product page you're already browsing.
Use it to capture the product name, vendor, price, description, and imagery from the page. Grab additional text or images when you need them, create a vendor without leaving the workflow, and save the product to your Design Library or directly into a project.
Where available, keep trade pricing and discounts with the product too.
Why it's different
Sourcing is already a hundred tabs.
It shouldn't also be a second job where you copy every useful thing out of those tabs and rebuild it in your project software.
Find it once. Clip it once. Keep designing.
And because the thing you clipped becomes a real Materio product, the information doesn't stop being useful when you close Chrome.
It can become a selection, land on a board, carry pricing, go in front of the client, and keep moving through the project.
Where it fits
The Clipper is how new products enter your world.
Save a great find to the firm-wide Design Library when you know you'll use it again, or send it straight into the project you're working on.
Either way, sourcing becomes the beginning of the workflow instead of another pile of information you have to organize later.
Moodboards
Explore the feeling before you commit to the answer.
Bring inspiration, materials, colors, products, and project items together on a visual canvas built for the way interior designers actually think.
What it does
Build visual boards from inspiration imagery, product images, and items already in your project.
Remove image backgrounds so pieces layer naturally. Rotate and arrange them. Add background color. Duplicate a board when you want to explore a variation without starting over.
Use a moodboard loosely or make it as detailed as the moment requires.
Early design is allowed to be messy. Materio gives that exploration somewhere to live without disconnecting it from the project.
Why it's different
A moodboard shouldn't become a dead-end image.
You've probably built a beautiful direction in one tool, gotten everyone excited, then gone somewhere else to figure out what the products actually were, what they cost, and whether they ever made it into the project.
In Materio, inspiration can stay close to the real work.
Bring actual scope items onto the board when you have them. Mix them with loose inspiration when you don't. Let the idea get more specific without throwing the early work away.
The board can evolve as the design does.
Where it fits
Moodboards are for direction.
They help answer the first question: Does this feel right?
Once the direction gets clearer and real selections start taking over, Concept Boards help turn that feeling into something your team and client can understand as an actual space.
Concept Boards
Turn "I like the direction" into "yes, that's the room."
Bring the real selections for a space together so your client can see how the pieces work as one idea, not as a list of unrelated products.
What it does
Compose the products and selections for a space into one visual concept.
Instead of asking a client to understand a sofa, rug, lamp, finish, and side table one at a time, show them how those decisions relate to one another.
Because you're working with products from the project, the board stays connected to the items underneath it instead of becoming another visual you'll have to reconcile later.
Why it's different
Clients don't think in schedules.
They think, "What is my living room going to feel like?"
Concept Boards let you speak that language without losing the structure your team needs behind the scenes.
The lamp on the board can still be the lamp in the scope, with its vendor, quantity, pricing, specification, and decisions attached to it.
Beautiful for the client. Useful for the project. Same information.
Where it fits
Moodboards explore. Concept Boards get specific.
Use them when the design has moved beyond broad inspiration and you're ready to show how real selections come together in a space.
From there, those same project items can move into a presentation or proposal when it's time to turn the design into decisions.
Presentations & Proposals
A beautiful yes shouldn't create three hours of admin.
Present the design with the imagery, products, quantities, and pricing already connected underneath it, then capture client feedback and approvals on the same items the rest of the project uses.
What it does
Build visual proposals on a flexible canvas using the work you've already created.
Arrange and resize products, layer imagery, remove backgrounds, add text, and bring boards into the presentation. Materio keeps track of the items included, including what has already been approved and what still needs a decision.
Choose how much pricing the client sees. Present items individually or as a lump sum, and allow clients to review the design, open cost details when appropriate, and comment directly on the proposal.
Then capture the approval where the decision actually lives. When a client approves a proposal, every item in it is automatically marked Approved in your selections.
Why it's different
The presentation is usually where the project splits in two.
One version looks beautiful for the client. Another version has the real quantities and pricing. Then someone has to take the comments, changes, and approvals and update the project behind the scenes.
That handoff is where good decisions turn into admin.
Materio keeps the presentation connected to the project underneath it.
The product your client is looking at isn't a screenshot of the product you're managing somewhere else. It's the product.
Its pricing is there. Its specs are there. Your team's decisions are there. The client's feedback and approval are there.
So when someone makes a decision, you don't have to carry it back into the project by hand.
Where it fits
This is where Design turns into action.
Once a selection is approved, the decision doesn't need to be translated into a separate purchasing workflow. It's already connected to the item Procurement, Financials, your team, and eventually the people in the field will work from.
When the client says yes, that yes goes to work.