Rebel Athletic Microstore Digital Transformation Development

Customer Background

Rebel Athletic is a world-leading provider of cheerleading uniforms for athletes. Rebel’s Design Studio empowers users to bring their custom uniform designs to life with real-time 3D visualization. With an extensive selection of colors, styles, and design elements, you can craft the perfect look by adding custom logos, sublimated patterns, and even dazzling crystal embellishments. The interactive platform allows you to see every detail of your creation in 3D as you design, ensuring a flawless final product that stands out on the mat, field, or stage.  If a Rebel client can dream it, they can design it!

7T’s partnership with Rebel Athletic has been integral in building and designing revolutionary e-commerce and AR platforms. Recently, Rebel sought 7T’s application development services to address critical business challenge, which was sometimes months-long design process and increased cost of the needed expanding design staff to keep up with Rebel’s explosive growth.

Rebel Athletic Resolve Time and Money Problems
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A Web-based Design Platform Helps Rebel Athletic Dramatically Decrease Design Time and Accelerate Deliveries

At the core of Rebel Athletics challenges were the slow design process and the burden of continuously hiring designers to meet the growing business and design demands. The conventional uniform design cycle can last for months. Typically, it starts with the gym owners or athletic directors selecting a cheerleading outfit design from Rebel Athletics online LookBook and getting an idea on how to customize it per their brand, logo, style, and color preferences. After choosing the design features and elements, they communicate it with the Field Sales reps who work with remote Rebel designers to create the first design of the outfit using Adobe Illustrator. The Field Sales reps then revert to the athletic directors to refine, review, and finalize a design. The entire lifecycle causes significant delays and quite often frustrations for customers.

A solution was needed to  shorten the design cycle by building a web-based design platform, which came to be  the Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio. The platform provides gym owners/ athletic directors/athletes with all the provisions to independently design and customize cheerleading uniforms. It helps eliminate unnecessary wait time and frustrating design revision cycles and enables customers to get a real-time cost update with each customization.

Rebel and 7T Partnership for an Intuitive,
Real-time Design Experience

7T delivered the innovative Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio, which skips traditional 2D illustrations to visualize uniform design and customization in a 3D environment. The platform represents a massive upgrade to Rebel’s customers by giving them better control, transparency, and ownership of creative and design management processes. It has immersive design capabilities, sophisticated customization tools, and manufacturing integration features.

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3D Design
Visualization

Uniform customization and design details are instantly rendered in 3D formats, allowing customers to rotate designs, examine intricacies details at 360 degrees, and make real-time adjustments to the design. The immersive 3D design experience reduces the scope for design errors and revision cycles that delay the overall design process and impact customer satisfaction levels.

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Dye Sublimation and Other Customization Tools

The Rebel 3D design studio boasts dye sublimation features to enable customers to customize their outfit design by exploring a built-in library of patterns, styles, colors, and textures to match their design preferences. The tool includes a crystal embellishment system that visualizes crystal placements  in 3D  and understand the cost associated with the feature to help customers make informed design decisions.

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Manufacturing Integration

Once the customers finalize a design on the Rebel 3D Design Studio, detailed manufacturing instructions and precise production specifications are automatically created and sent to manufacturing facilities in China. Automation reduces the scope for translation errors and reduces the time between design and production. Additionally, it prevents cost and resource wastage as there is no possibility of a mismatch between design and finished product or customer rejections.

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Immediate Benefits of Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio

Client Custom Designs

The Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio platform makes professional-quality uniform design accessible and easy to customize for all programs and customers looking to stand out with uniforms of superior quality and unique design features.

7T, An Ideal Partner to Spearhead the Next-gen 3D Design Studio

Rebel Athletic chose 7T for its extensive experience as a global technology and talent orchestration leader. 7T’s roots in mobile application development, expertise across technical domains, and a specialized team of WebGL engineers skilled in browser-based 3D rendering technologies laid the foundation for Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio and its immersive uniform-customization features. 7T helped reimagine the design lifecycle and streamline uniform customization and order management with the next-gen, immersive, and intuitive design platform that leveraged:

Smarter Budget Management

Customers can leverage the platform’s transparency and flexibility to keep track of costs and pricing updates as designs are customized. It helps them explore cost-efficient alternatives without compromising on quality, styles, fit, and colors, and create multiple design options within their budget. Also, customers can plan team-wide uniform cost updates and manage costs at team or squad levels.

Faster Time to Uniforms

The Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio dramatically accelerates the time get take a team’s design concept to a reality!  By putting the design in the hands of the client it not only shortens the design time and eliminates back-and-fourth with designers, it greatly increases customer satisfaction as they get exactly what they want for their team brand and style.

Brand/Team Image Building

By streamlining design, customization, and order management, programs can focus more on building and upholding team ethics and image building. Through premium uniform designs, programs can demonstrate excellence and use it to build recognition in competitive circuits.

Outshining Competition

Programs can ensure that their teams standout for presentation with attention-grabbing designs and look their best at every competition. The 3D Design Studio also helps them adapt their designs according to performance categories or evolve with trends to make a lasting impression.

Design Consistency and Group Coordination

The design platform helps programs maintain design consistency and create coordinated looks across age groups and teams. Programs can leverage the platform to support competitive and recreational teams by creating appealing uniforms and also scaling uniform programs from beginners to elite levels.

Centralized Design Management

Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio is a one-stop shop for all uniform design and management tasks. The platform manages everything from choosing a design or customization feature, tracking orders and inventory, maintaining historical design records, and multiple team order management to order documentation.

7T, An Ideal Partner to Spearhead the Next-gen 3D Design Studio

Rebel Athletic chose 7T for its extensive experience as a global technology and talent orchestration leader. 7T’s roots in mobile application development, expertise across technical domains, and a specialized team of WebGL engineers skilled in browser-based 3D rendering technologies laid the foundation for Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio and its immersive uniform-customization features. 7T helped reimagine the design lifecycle and streamline uniform customization and order management with the next-gen, immersive, and intuitive design platform that leveraged:

World-class 3D Platform and SaaS Development

7T’s proven capability in global platform development and coordination with high-caliber teams with experience in Node.js,React, 3D WebGL for rapid, high-quality delivery of robust and responsive platforms that handle complex 3D rendering.

3D Technology Leadership

7T’s WebGL engineers with knowledge of 3D rendering technologies were integral in building realistic 3D visualizations to help users review fabric textures crystal effects and understand uniform movements.

Salesforce Development Integration

7T’s Salesforce development experience was beneficial in integrating the design platform with Rebel Athletic’s existing Salesforce infrastructure to enable data exchange with its business systems.

World-class Talent Pool and Delivery

 7T assembled and managed a global team of 50 specialized 3D artists across multiple time zones who adhered to quality standards, efficiently implemented workflow processes, and managed complex project timelines. The strategic team effort resulted in the creation of 400 detailed uniform models and their completion in just 5 months while maintaining the highest quality standards.

3D Design Studio Catapults Rebel Athletic’s Image as a Design Disruptor and Market Leader

3D Design Studio Catapults Rebel Athletic’s Image as a Design Disruptor and Market Leader
The Rebel Athletic 3D Design Studio opened new market opportunities by leveraging its customization capabilities to quickly create one-off designs for special events. It has built a premium market segment for uniforms with high-end crystal embellishment.

The business impact of the platform extends beyond design efficiency. It has been integral in elevating Rebel Athletic’s status as an industry innovator by solving critical design time and cost challenges and creating new revenue streams. The 3D Design Studio’s scalability and customer-centric approach guarantee better customer satisfaction, allowing them to have better creative control and transparency of the design process. In turn, it helps create new business opportunities. All in all, the platform is beyond a technological solution; it is a complete reimagination of how athletic wear can be designed, customized, and produced in the modern era!

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