The good old days?

Remember sending out samples to a factory as a reference for your design, sticky notes pinned all over it, describing what needed to be changed?

We’ve come a long way, baby, but a visual is still worth 1000+ words.

(does anyone else question the double spacing in between every sentence?)

(it must work, ‘cuz a lot of people do it. I’ll give it a try and see what happens.)

We still rely on an Adobe Illustrator technical black & white flat sketch to do the heavy lifting when it comes to communicating design & construction details.

With 3D, we can get an amazing visual, a pretty good representation of what it will look like on the body, and how the fabric will hang.

But today, it is still just a pretty picture.

Sure, there are lots of amazing software/tech companies that focus on the fabric, color, seaming, fit, etc. but there is a lot of exporting & importing across platform, which ultimately equals some quantity of data leakage and manual data manipulation.

I have lots of nostalgia for “the good old days”, but not all of it.

As a designer & developer today, I want to touch my product once, have a single source of truth and not go back to sending jackets across the globe covered in square, yellow pieces of paper and endless emails explaining the details.

What processes do YOU wish were digitized today…or not?