Digital Product Collaboration Platform for Design-Style Custom Product Search
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collaboration platforms fail to organize customizable products by aesthetic design styles, leading to inefficient user experience and profitability issues due to the need for users to search through numerous products of varying designs, and compensation calculations are inefficient as they are based on individual products rather than design collections.
Innovation Solution
A digital product collaboration platform organizes products into functional groups based on aesthetic design types, allowing users to create inspiration boards to search for products that match their preferences, and determines manufacturing constraints and instructions for customized products.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If products are grouped by product types in typical collaboration platforms, then product categorization is simple and straightforward, but users must search through numerous products of varying designs which increases browsing time and reduces user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments products by aesthetic design styles (e.g., Victorian, modern, traditional) as a primary categorization dimension, creating design-style-based collections that group products by visual characteristics rather than functional types. This segmentation allows users to browse products by aesthetic preference first, then filter by product type within each design collection, significantly reducing browsing time and improving search efficiency.
2Productivity
If compensation calculations are based on individual products, then each product can be compensated independently, but the calculation process becomes inefficient and does not account for design collections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges compensation calculations at the design collection level rather than individual product level. By grouping products into aesthetic-based collections and calculating compensation for the entire collection, the system improves computational efficiency and preserves the contextual relationship between products sharing the same design style, thereby preventing loss of design collection information.
3Adaptability or versatility
If collaboration platforms organize products by functional categories, then product functionality is easily identifiable, but users with specific aesthetic preferences must browse through all product types to find desired designs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds aesthetic design style as an additional organizational dimension alongside traditional functional categories. Products are now organized in a two-dimensional matrix: by functional type and by aesthetic design style. This dimensional change allows users to access products through either dimension, enabling quick retrieval of products matching specific aesthetic preferences without requiring browsing through all functional categories.
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AI summary
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving an indication of a particular design style; determining, based on the indication, functional product groups that comprise a plurality of custom products having indicia of the particular design style; initiating a collaboration session between a user and one or more collaborators to allow selecting one or more particular custom products; in response to receiving a selection of the particular custom products, generating a group of customized products comprising the one or more particular custom products, each particular customized product associated with a product type of a plurality of product types, each product type of the plurality of product types associated with a manufacturing constraint of multiple manufacturing constraints, each particular customized product having shared content that all of the one or more particular custom products share; obtaining manufacturing methods for manufacturing the customized particular products; and proceeding to manufacturing.