This Store Design AI Tech Stack presents a selection of tools designed to optimise key stages of the design workflow. Each tool leverages artificial intelligence to streamline repetitive tasks, enhance creative output, and improve overall efficiency, like automating store layout generation and visualising merchandising strategies. These resources are grouped according to workflow stages to help you quickly find the best AI solution.
→ Space Planning & Layout
Plan store layouts, optimise space utilisation, and visualise customer flow. These AI tools help with generating floor plans, optimising product placement, and predicting foot traffic.
Goal: Optimise Store Space and Customer Flow
- RetailNext: AI-Optimised Store Layouts - Generates retail floor plans. https://retailnext.net
- ShopBuilder AI: AI-Powered Merchandising - Optimises product placements. https://shopbuilder.ai
- Placer: AI-Generated Store Traffic Analysis - Predicts footfall trends. https://www.placer.ai
- Spacemaker AI (now part of Autodesk): Cloud-based AI software that helps architects, urban planners, and real estate developers to design better and more sustainable urban developments.
→ Visual Merchandising
Plan in-store displays, optimise product presentation, and create engaging visual experiences. These AI tools assist with automating display planning, generating planograms, and visualising merchandising strategies.
Goal: Create Compelling Visual Displays
- Foko Retail: AI-Generated Visual Merchandising - Automates in-store display planning. https://fokoretail.com
- Planogram Generators with AI: Several companies (e.g., DotActiv, Instore) offer planogram generation software that incorporates AI to optimise product placement based on sales data, shopper behaviour, and visual appeal. These may not be fully AI-driven, but they leverage AI to enhance the planogram creation process.
- 3D Visualisation Software with AI features: Tools like SketchUp, Revit, or 3ds Max are not AI-driven per se, but increasingly incorporate AI features for tasks like generating realistic lighting, textures, and materials, aiding in visual merchandising planning.
→ Lighting and Ambiance
Goal: Optimise store lighting for a range of lighting effects
- Lighting Design Software with AI: Some lighting design software (e.g., DIALux) is beginning to incorporate AI for automated lighting calculations, simulating lighting effects, and optimising energy efficiency.