Role-Based Collaborative Design Platform for Custom Products
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current computer-aided product customization systems are cumbersome, leading users to skip customization opportunities due to the complexity of navigating through numerous attributes and clicks, resulting in default product configurations.
Innovation Solution
A role-based collaboration platform that allows users to efficiently customize products by assigning roles and granting access to product description data, enabling users to edit, view, and collaborate on interactive designs with reduced clicks through a computer-implemented data processing method and system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users navigate through countless sets of attributes and clicks to complete product customization, then product customization capability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the product customization interface into multiple hierarchical levels or categories. Instead of presenting all attributes at once, the system divides them into manageable groups that users can navigate through progressively, reducing the cognitive load and number of clicks required to reach customization options.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring product attributes and organizing them into logical groups before the user arrives. Default values and recommended configurations are prepared in advance, allowing users to make selections without having to navigate through every possible attribute from scratch.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the product customization interface includes countless sets of attributes, then product customization capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The interface is segmented into modular components where attributes are organized by product category, feature type, or configuration level. This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity by presenting only relevant attribute groups at each stage of the customization process, rather than displaying all attributes simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an additional dimensional organization to the attribute structure, such as hierarchical levels or nested categories. This extra dimension allows users to drill down into specific attribute groups only when needed, transforming a flat complex interface into a structured multi-level navigation system.
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AI summary
In some embodiments, a system and a computer-implemented method for role-based collaborative design based on manufacturing constraints are disclosed. A method comprises: receiving, at a computer collaboration system, an electronic digital editing invitation from a first user interface that executes on a first user device associated with a first user, the editing invitation comprising inviting a second user to collaborate on a digital electronic interactive design as an editor, the interactive design comprising a graphical visual representation of a physical product that is capable of custom manufacture with a plurality of variable product attributes; transmitting to a second user device of the second user, the product description data for rendering the interactive design in a second user interface executing on the second user device; receiving a first modification to the interactive design from the second user interface; automatically generating a first updated product description data based on the first modification.