Building with Empathy: Exploring How We Built a One-to-Many E-Commerce Experience
After more than a decade of designing and building software for others, Detroit Labs ventured into a product offering of its own: Octocart. Now it’s time to share what we’ve learned from developing our e-commerce platform. In part three of this
Building with Empathy: When One Opportunity Leads to Another
Detroit Labs has been designing and building software for others for over a decade, so it was high time for us to create a product offering of our own. In part two of this series, we pull back the curtain
Building with Empathy: Our Journey Bringing a Product to Life
After more than a decade of designing and building software for others, Detroit Labs ventured into a product offering of its own—Octocart. But there’s more that goes into product development than meets the eye! We’ll pull back the curtain and
How Retail Software Is Driving Customer Integration
Leonardo DiCaprio may have been the “king of the world” from the bow of the Titanic, but retail crowns a new king: the consumer. Your brand must adjust to satisfy customers in a world that’s more reliant on technology than
The Top 5 Benefits of Retail Automation Software
Manual processes are so yesterday. Automation is the future and a game changer for retail, transforming an industry plagued by inefficiencies both in and outside its control. Dig in to explore retail automation software and its benefits for consumers and
Digitizing the Physical World of Retail with Technology
The classic retail experience: Brick-and-mortar everything, with consumers physically entering stores to search aisles for what they need. Today’s retail experience: A blend of the physical and digital as technology in retail stores transforms and grows. “Change is the only constant in
Why Good Customer Data Management Increases Retail Brand Loyalty
Retailers today collect many pieces of data from all different touchpoints, but to what end? Capturing data is only a part of customer data management. The goal should be to take all the disparate data and incorporate it across one
The Future of Retail Technology
Flash back to what retail used to look like: Going into stores, manually picking out items, and paying at the register. It all sounds so simple, so why change it if it’s not broken? The reality is that times have changed,
Digital Transformation: Building Business Agility with APIs
It seems like yesterday we were playing “Pong” on green-screen Macintosh computers. Technology has evolved over the past 40 years, and now is equally as vital to business as it is for entertainment. Much of that has to do with
Signs Your Project Has Run Away and What to Do About It
You’re working with a technology partner to build your new app, but it’s become unmanageable. Is there a way to wrangle it and get back on track? When projects become too big, things get confusing—and fast. Building an app is a