Context-Driven User Interface Generation for Custom Card Design

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for customizing transaction cards lack efficiency and user-friendliness, particularly in managing diverse customer and product contexts across different locations and businesses, leading to suboptimal card design experiences and sales opportunities.

Innovation Solution

A custom card design system that generates user interfaces dynamically based on contextual parameters, allowing administrative users to configure and manage consumer interfaces with customer and product context-dependent elements, enabling efficient customization and fulfillment across various locations and businesses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a custom card design system supports multiple customer and product contexts across different locations and businesses, then the system's adaptability and versatility improve, but the device complexity increases due to the need to manage diverse contextual parameters and configurations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontext supportVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the user interface into multiple configurable elements, each independently controllable through contextual parameters. This allows the interface to be divided into manageable components that can be selectively configured for different customer and product contexts without requiring complete interface redesign, thus managing complexity while maintaining versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a universal interface template that can serve multiple customer and product contexts through parameter-based configuration. Instead of creating separate interfaces for each context, a single flexible template adapts to various scenarios by adjusting configurable elements based on the provided contextual parameters, reducing system complexity while enhancing adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If the system provides extensive customization options for card design, then ease of operation improves for users, but device complexity increases due to the number of configurable elements and parameters

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser friendlinessVSAvoidconfiguration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables users to independently configure interface elements by providing self-service capabilities through contextual parameters. Users can modify interface behavior and appearance by supplying appropriate context information without requiring complex manual configuration or administrator intervention, improving ease of operation while the system automatically manages the underlying complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes interface configuration through parameter adjustments rather than structural modifications. By varying contextual parameters based on different scenarios, the system dynamically adapts the user interface to provide appropriate customization options, making operation easier while avoiding the complexity of managing multiple fixed configuration structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Productivity

If the system dynamically generates user interfaces based on contextual parameters, then productivity improves through efficient customization, but device complexity increases due to the dynamic generation mechanism

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomization efficiencyVSAvoidinterface generation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary configuration by establishing a template with pre-defined configurable elements before actual interface generation. This advance preparation allows the system to quickly adapt the interface by simply adjusting parameters based on contextual information, improving customization efficiency while the complex generation logic is encapsulated in the pre-built template structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses template copying as a basis for dynamic interface generation. Instead of creating interfaces from scratch for each context, the system copies a base template and modifies it through parameter-based configuration, significantly improving productivity while reducing the complexity of the generation mechanism by leveraging the reusable template structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11049372B2System and methods for generating user interfaces for custom card design session
Publication Date: 2021.06.29 CPI CARD GROUP COLORADO INC
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AI summary

A transaction card customization system that includes a customer user interface that is generatable based on a customization parameter indicative of at least one of a customer context and a product context of the user interface. An administrative user interface is described that facilitates an administrative user establishing a consumer user interface based on a customer context and/or product context. In turn, a locator is generated that includes the customization parameter indicative of the customer context and/or product context. As such, upon a user utilizing the locator to navigate to a custom card design server, a payload including the customization parameter is received at the custom card design server and used to generate the customer user interface based on the indicated customer context and/or product context.