Enhance Your Design Process by Combining Foyr Neo and Foyr Moodboard

Quicken your entire design process by choosing the right tools. Mood boards and designs don’t have to take long or tire you out. You can get them done on the fly, and delight your clients by delivering before the agreed-upon date. You don’t have to work extra hours more than you do or turn into a superhuman to do that. Simply make a switch to a powerful tool, and see the humongous change it has on your design workflow, efficiency, and results – with Foyr Mood board and Foyr Neo.

This blog will take you through everything you need to know about using Foyr Neo and Moodboard together and help you understand why making the switch now will help you immensely.

Streamlining Design Workflow with Combined Power

Nail this crucial task successfully by reaping Foyr Neo and Moodboard benefits together, so you get from start to finish in a matter of seconds.

Creating a Design Board/Mood Board with Foyr Moodboard

Given how this is the most important stage in the design phase and one where all ambiguity needs to be ruled out, you take time to carve out a truly personal, close-to-heart mood board that reflects your client’s personality. When you sit down to talk to your client, ask them to come up with keywords they would like to use to define the different spaces in their home and assess what they’d like to feel in the living space. For further inspiration and guidance, refer to how to create amazing mood boards for interior design? to ensure your mood board captures the essence of your client’s vision.

It helps if they come up with inspirational images, or social media posts that they’ve come across. Some clients may not be able to articulate exactly what they feel, which can be a bit of a hassle, as it’d take multiple rounds of edits to finalize on the mood board.

If you’re a designer who prefers working with an abstract mood board before adding decor items, just to feel the beauty of the space that you’re building up in your mind, you need the right tools for it. That’s where the Foyr Mood board comes into the picture. You’d want ready-to-use templates just to get your creative juices going. We anticipated your needs and have 250+ mood board layouts to help you hit the ground running. 

We, as a community, have this insatiable need to overdeliver to clients delight them with multiple iterations of designs and mood boards, and help them hone in on what they set their heart on. As a practice, you always create two or more mood boards, to make the decision-making process easier for your clients.

Legacy software like AutoCAD, AutoDesk or SketchUp, or other unconventional design tools like Canva you use to create them take a long time to download, and present as hyper-real 3D render, but not Foyr Mood board. You can take renders in a blink of an eye, without breaking a sweat. 

As you move from the abstract mood board phase to the concept phase, you start adding furniture, materials, finishes, colors, etc., and bring in all design inspiration your client wants to incorporate into the design. When all the moving pieces come together, it can be overwhelming to look at, and if you aren’t able to move them around easily without the screen glitching, mood board creation itself can become a hassle.

That’s why Foyr Mood board’s super intelligent cloud-based engine offers you a smooth user-friendly interface to experiment to your heart’s content, regardless of whether you’re a beginner or an experienced designer. If you want to learn how to create amazing mood boards for interior design, you also need the bandwidth to change colors, textures, materials, finishes, etc., and finalize what your client desires.

Do that smoothly, and easily with the Foyr Mood board. What’s more? You can easily remove the background of images you upload, access a robust material library of 60,000+ pre-built 3D models, and simply drag and drop whatever you require into the mood board. 

Developing a Beautiful Design Using Foyr Neo

You don’t have to switch between your mood board tool, and design tool constantly, every time you make a change in the concept. Sometimes clients do a 180 and want to change the original design idea they signed off on, even after you start generating 3D renders. This is when the switching gets tough. Given how Foyr Neo and Moodboard features are interconnected, all you need to click a button, and import mood boards, edit them on the fly, and generate renders on the go.

Follow design trends closely with Neo’s design library, a community of 10,000+ design professionals like you, and keep improving your design quality. We upgrade Neo periodically, so you serve industry-leading, robust features, and fresh materials to your clients and you get a constantly improving interface. With an advanced design system and robust features, you can simply drag and drop 3D models, check if they work, and for their functionality, and slowly get out of a creative block. Similarly, when your creative genius hits midnight, you can take the laptop or Mac on your nightstand and put it on the mood board right away. 

Neo has the potential to create thousands of beautiful designs, with jaw-dropping quality and keep upgrading to match evolving needs. With never-before floor planning accuracy, depth, and clarity of space planning, you can now place, merge, move, and remove walls easily without damaging any part of the design, and create ready-to-build blueprints with every dimension intact. A vast library of 50,000+ 3D models of every possible element in the interior design business with limitless combinations and variety.

AI-assisted lighting and adjust features that carry out the finishing touches as you focus on the final proposed design. Completely customizable camera angle, 360-degree walkthroughs in 4K quality. Light on the pocket – a cloud engine that doesn’t need any special requirement to run multiple design projects at once without glitching. Strong, yet simple connection to Augmented Reality. After you finish designing, and interior decorating on your laptop or desktop, activate AR mode, scan the QR on your phone, and instantly get the design to come to life. Move your phone where you want to place the design and experience the design in all its glory.

Step-by-Step Guide: Using Foyr Neo & Moodboard Together

Let’s go over a typical day at work, when you sit down to create a digital mood board, get approval, and proceed to create 3D home designs. We’ll go over each step, and illustrate how Foyr reduces waiting time, iterations, or a lack of options. 

Step 1: Create a Mood Board in Foyr Moodboard

Your design business begins with an idea which you then develop through constant research, brainstorming, and creating mood boards. Draw up a blank project, choose a mood board template from 250+ templates, and start adding images and 3d models in it, depending on the feeling you want to convey through the space, who the occupants are of the space, and what drives design decisions. You upload site images, and inspirational images onto the tool remove the background if need be, without switching to different tools, and view how all individual but related pieces come together as one piece. 

Visualize the feeling the mood board evokes, and present multiple iterations to the client without expending precious effort or spending hours and hours of your time, when you could spend them otherwise. 

Choose any font, with any line weight to add to your mood board. If you’re one of the designers who feels only minimalist text is allowed, choose where you to place the text. Want to experiment with different textures, color schemes, wall paint, finishes, materials, shapes, and forms? Experiment freely with Foyr Moodboard’s ability to copy, and paste textures, and apply any texture, pattern, or color palette to any product from inspiration.  

Step 2: Make Presentations and Approvals Easy With Foyr Moodboard

Once your mood board is complete, you don’t have to keep switching between tools to carry out every change and wait for the legacy tool to finish loading so you can update the design. No more waiting time, or wasting time. Simply draw up the automatically saved mood board from the gallery, make changes in real-time, even while sitting in the client’s meeting room, and show them how the final version looks. With crisper-than-reality models, and hyper-real images, your clients will be blown away by the expertise and high-quality work you deliver using Foyr Moodboard.

What’s more? The material library abounds with 60,000+ branded, latest decor accessories and products, along with the names of brands, and links to vendors, so after the client finalizes the mood board, you can simply click on the products to place orders for them. 

Step 3: Build Your Design in Foyr Neo

Ship your design from the mood board stage to the design stage at the click of a button. No more switching tabs, and drawing the concept from scratch. The saved mood board already has the design style and products you’ve chosen for the space. Decide which ones to retain, and which ones to let go, so you can shortlist them, change others without affecting the design, and add your finesse. Understand the difference between a mood board and a concept board to effectively transition from initial inspiration to detailed execution. Design your client’s space to evoke the same ambiance they signed off on in the mood board stage. Customize to any extent to make the space exude your client’s personality.

If you can’t find a particular decor accessory, furniture, or any design element for that matter, simply raise a request to get it designed easily, in a few days. You don’t have to wait months together or plead with your client to change their needs anymore. 

Step 4: Take Previews and Generate Renders Using Foyr Neo

Once the design is all set, you need to bring in lighting. Show your clients how the space, and makeover will look in all seasons and lighting conditions right from sunrise, sunset, afternoon, rainy, windy, wintery, and at different lighting intensities. View the design from 360 degrees, set the right camera angles you want, take a 360-degree walkthrough, and preview the design before hitting that ‘take render’ button. 

Once the preview looks good, take a render in 4K quality, and it’ll be generated and added to your gallery in a matter of seconds. If your client wants last-minute changes and sees them in the final design, you can simply go into edit mode, edit the design, and take another render in seconds, without having to wait for a couple of days to effect their change. 

Conclusion

Given that your client’s floor plan is unique, how do you know which decor items will work in the space and which won’t? You figure it out by visualizing the space with their favorite products and ruling out the ones that don’t fit in. 

With 24/7 support and live chat, we’re here to help you if you ever get stuck anywhere. You can find step-by-step tutorials on how to design on Neo all over the internet, so you’re never truly alone when you design using Neo.

What are you waiting for? Start curating your mood board for your client’s dream home, sign up for Foyr Neo’s 14-day free trial today.