The BOX is an interactive AI-processing, scanning and printing unit that functions as the main base for generating designs. It is here that the user scans their scraps, interacts with the AI, selects and designs garments and prints blueprints that the user will follow to bring the design to life. 

The user interacts with the product through a touchscreen on top of the upper component. It is through this interaction that the user adds personal details, makes choices that influence designs & difficulty, control connections to databases and devices, access instructions and more. The scraps are scanned on and the blueprints are printed from the lower component. 

The user starts a new design from the homepage, and follows a six-step design process consisting of: 

Their body, which is the body size as a collection of measurements of a user. The body consists of basic measurements, namely the bust, HPS to shoulder, waist, waist to floor, high hip, and hip, that can be used to determine the height, width and the body shape of the user, which will be used to determine an estimate of the body surface area and what can be made with the available scrap. 

Clear instructions with guiding images are provided while each measurement is taken stepwise. The user can then save their and other bodies (in the context of manufacturing sizes or domestic use) for future use; they can easily update their body to respond to changes in their body. 

The difficulty, which is the preferred amount of time and level of skill involved. Techniques such as smocking or piping would be considered more challenging than sewing simple French seams or big pleats, and patterns than contain mostly straight lines and big scraps would require less time to sew than of curved, smaller pieces. 

A demo and suggestive ranking of prominently known stitching techniques will be provided for the user a better sense of the difficulty indicated here. 

The scanning procedure, where the user will be instructed to scan to the scraps with the procedure illustrated. 

As scanning the pieces involve opening the upper segment of the BOX multiple times with the risk of touching the screen and giving an unintended prompt due to the screen taking up a majority of the upper surface (observed during testing), the user will be asked to confirm twice whether they have concluded scanning when done 

Once all scraps have been scanned and the amount of usable scrap have been analysed, the types of garments and wearables that can be made while taking the user’s body into calculation is presented, with the top five designs that best match the criteria chosen by the user shown. 

Under each design is indicated the percentage of scraps used, the estimated duration and difficulty. If the user is dissatisfied with the results, they can either view the other viable designs that would not fulfil the criteria to its best but gives the user a bit more autonomy in their choice or scan more scraps to get a wider range of makeable designs 

After the garment is selected, the BOX produces four AI-generated designs. A closer look can be taken into each design in terms of dimensions, scrap percentage, sewing duration, sewing difficulty, sewing machines required, and number of blueprints. 

The user can also ‘heart’ or save designs for future use, in the case the user does not intend to make it in this round; these saved designs can be used to make collections. 

The selected design will then be converted to blueprint form which the user can easily follow to bring to realization. Visual aid will be provided with showing which pieces were utilized in each page, coordinated and numbered, and the 11 blueprints themselves will be drawn to fit the intended piece perfectly. 

When the design process is complete, the scraps that were not used will be saved to be used in the next iteration, where the user will then be asked whether they would like to use them (if it is still available to them)