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Production - Coggle Diagram
Production
Design Strategy
Usability
Making a product that benefits the user with something they want/need, when it comes to clothing, it's an essential everyday item that everyone universally uses, so trying to make it more captivating could likely inspire more consumers to be interested in wearing your brand.
Desirable
Desirability connects to the user and what they find aesthetically pleasing or if the products suit their tastes in design or compatibility, this is an important feature as its key to what will make consumers interested in your brand.
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Design strategy is a process used in business to define how they will go about their design plans, which ultimately helps with identifying long-term goals or business objectives.
Usefulness
Navigation
It's Important that consumers be able to easily find and have access to your product without any hinderances, a good webpage layout is vital to keep consumer traction.
familiarity
Product familiarity depicts how a consumer might conduct their purchases, price points have a huge play on their overall decision and wether the brand represent the consumers ideals or likes.
Consistency
How closely the product relates to other products from the same brand, what key features they may share and how the products all connect to the brand through the same style or aesthetic.
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Feedback
Allows you to know how users view your brand, what they like about it and what they don't like about your products, then using this information to better your designs.
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Is a key area that has an overall impact/effects on the products usability, most times 'ease of use' is used to identify if the product fulfils the role of being more usable or not.
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Materials
Supply-chain
A network that connects the product to its initial resourcing location, from sourced material, to product, to shipment, to consumer.
Eco-Friendly
Materials that are non-destructive to the environments/habitats and can be easily recycled into a new product.
All the raw materials that make up the product, when it comes to clothing manufactures, they must legally list out all product materials and the percentage of material used, this is usually located on the manufacturing label on the inside of an item of clothing.
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Quality Checks
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Product Quality
A process that entails checking the quality of a produced product to ensure that it meets a set of standards.
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Error Detection
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Visually inspecting products to find any design faults or production errors, this prevents selling a low quality product.
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Loction
On-Site
Producing products in a brand owned facility, having complete control of production.
Outsourced
Reaching out to manufacturing companies to produce a product for you, not having control of the production methods and or materials used.
Resources
Types of Equipment
Screenprinting
A process of ink being pushed through a mesh layer onto a fabric surface, the mesh layer is an etched out stencil of a design, this process requires multiple stencils for each colour.
Each section of your design has to be separated out into its own colour channel which then can be made into stencils.
DTF Printer
(Direct To Film) Transfer vinyl, Is a method of printing out designs on to an adhesive film which is then heat pressed in order to apply to the fabric.
Vinyl Cutters
Machines used to cut intricate designs out of vinyl, requires a heat press in order to apply to apparel.
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DTG Printer
(Direct To Garment) Is a printing method that allows you to print your designs straight onto the fabric with no extra steps.
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Design Process
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The Design Process is vital in order to develop a successful product, It's important to start with a good vision on what type of product your aiming to produce, then from there you should further develop on your designs and methods.