Bulk Quality: one approval flow for fabric samples
Replacing fragmented Excel and Power BI workflows with a single approval interface for Merchandising and Color teams.
DICK'S Sporting Goods · 2025 · Product Design InternHow might we give Merchandising and Color one place to approve fabric samples — without re-entering data?
The decisions
Two disconnected tools vs. one surface
Chose
One approval interface for both teams
Why
5 workflow interviews traced the real bottleneck to redundant data entry between tools.
Manual re-entry on a failed sample vs. automation
Chose
Failure-triggered round creation
Why
A failed sample opens the next round automatically, killing the re-entry loop.
Where it landed
15,000+hours saved annually
5workflow interviews
15,000+ hours saved annually.