TREND ENGINE -- Design from product definition

“Design is about process building”

Be a bricklayer? a wall builder? or a cathedral builder?

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Project background

Motivation

Current trend engine website is helpful neither to design inspiration nor to decision making.

Company context

Trading company seeking digitalisation as a source production coordinator specialized to apparels and retail industry.

Technical context

A product lifecycle management system aiming to collaboration is already on the way.

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Empathy on current situation

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Define the goal and problem

Goals

Trend Engine provides inspirations and trends evaluation.

Trend Engine is not only an independent product, but also works as an integrator (from inside to outside).

Trend Engine runs based on both external and internal data.

Trend Engine provides customised recommendations using effective algorithms.

Problems

Some customers concern about privacy to share business data to public cloud.

We are not confident enough to find an algorithm to fit the different requirements from different customers, especially how they consider the weights of different factors in the business developments.