Project type: Desktop
Services: Development, Testing

Project Description:

The application enables one to select and mix the paint of the required color and quality.

The application provides shop owners with a tool to select the needed color of paint for a customer, set the quality and material of the paint, and choose the recipe for making this particular color. The application sends this information to the tinting machine, which mixes colors to produce the paint. It adds the necessary colorants in the required proportion to the color base.

The application also enables to store information about customers and recipes of paints they have ever purchased. If the customer needs the paint of the same color, he or she will easily obtain exactly the same paint mixed according to the recipe that was saved for that particular customer in the database.

Customer's Need:

The company, one of the world's leading producers and suppliers of paints and coatings, wanted to enhance their customer service by providing the revolutionary solution for selecting and mixing colors.

The solution should help shop owners satisfy customers’ requirements by offering and selling paints of a required color. Software should enable one to look through possible colors for different paint products in different ways, help to choose the desired color, and control the tinting machine during the process of paint creation.

Main challenges:

The main challenge was to implement the user interface created by third-party designers. The customer hired a team of designers who had created a sophisticated user interface to reflected the look and feel of each button and each feature. The team had to work in compliance with the UI designers’ sketches.

The Solution:

To create a custom UI, Altoros implemented the Windows Presentation Foundation technology, which is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications.

The Outcome:

The application allowed the company to greatly improve the customer service. The solution, based on the WPF development technology, has help the company receive new orders and get much more regular customers.