Happy Socks
Automate the Boring Stuff
Happy Socks is an apparel company based in Stockholm, Sweden and their merchandise is sold in 90-plus countries. At Happy Socks, I was a Final Artist. Part of my job was to create and proof merchandise labels for global production. I wrote a Python script which doubled my team’s production.
Merchandise sold in the international market required labels with material names (ex. cotton) displayed in twelve languages. Before I joined Happy Socks, designers were copy/pasting material names from an excel sheet into design files. This process was time-consuming and error-prone because it was easy to accidentally copy/paste the incorrect language or material. I wrote a Python script to automate this process.
Automate with Python
I used regex to recognize patterns and a CSV file that contained all the languages and material names.
My script took the input of English material names and then outputted translations in 11 languages in the correct format. All I had to do was copy the text into my design file.
My script significantly increased efficiency and my team completed more labels in half the time. Merchandise labels that previously took about one week to produce, took 2-3 days with the use of my script.
I was scheduled to join Happy Socks as a full-time employee in 2020, but due to COVID-19, the position was canceled. Please view a recommendation letter from the Head of Agency.