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+ Rixus visualisation system case study +

1,400 SKUs, one visual identity, run by their team

Rixus had already tried AI and it had failed. I was not brought in to make the pictures. I was brought in to set the standard they had to hit, architect the system that makes them, and train their in house team to run it without me.

+ The brief +

Make 1,400 products look like one brand, on a real budget

Rixus makes consumer electronics accessories: chargers, power banks, cables, hubs and cases. Around 1,400 SKUs, sold for years B2B through distributors. In 2026 a new Amsterdam team set out to refresh the brand, launch a Shopify store and move to a combined B2B and D2C model.

Shooting or hand rendering 1,400 SKUs across studio, lifestyle and infographic formats was never going to happen. They had already tried AI in house on ComfyUI and Stable Diffusion, and it produced products that melted, lost hardware accuracy and lit inconsistently. Too fragile to batch.

The problem was never the model. It was that nothing was being held still.

Client
Rixus B.V., Amsterdam
Role
Design director
Services
Visual direction, system architecture, workshop delivery, production playbook
Scope
Around 1,400 SKUs across chargers, power banks, cables, hubs and cases
Stack
Figma Weave with GPT 5.6
Claude
Delivered
Pre-session planning plus three two hour workshops from April 2026.
Outcome
An asset production factorry and a senior designer who owns it and runs.
+ The solution +

Stop guessing. Start constraining.

Every attempt before mine treated the model as the variable. Write a better prompt, roll again, hope. That is a slot machine, not a pipeline.

So I did not hand them pictures. I handed them a method, a standard to hit and a look to hit it in, then trained the person who would run it. Minor Photoshop retouching still tidies some compositions, and the playbook says so rather than hiding it.

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Trained the operator
A senior designer on their team taught to run Figma Weave and to work with AI properly, so the capability lives with a person rather than inside a file I own.
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02
Built reusable workflows
Workflows that hold across the range rather than one off setups, built so that same designer can run them, extend them and point them at a new product without me.
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03
Set the benchmark
Guidance on visual benchmarking, pulling the category standard apart so the team knows exactly what they are aiming at instead of judging each render on the day.
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Defined the Rixus look
Visual direction that gives every category one identity, so results come out repeatable and cohesive and the brand gets stronger with each batch rather than noisier.
+ Inside the file +

The nodes that never move

Close ups of the locked blocks as they sit in Figma Weave.

Locked style node
Environment extraction. Lighting, surface and composition are pulled from one reference frame, then held fixed across the catalogue.
Product detail node
Reads the exact product from its listing and reference shots, so geometry, materials and finish stay true.
Product input swap
The assembly prompt takes the visual DNA and the product analysis as two variables. Swap the product, keep everything else.
+ The workflow +

Sample Rixus workflows

The style and studio nodes stay fixed. The product is what changes.

+ The output +

Same rig, different product

Studio output from one locked lighting and environment setup, and lifestyle output from the same system, both built off the plain white background shots Rixus already had. Some compositions still took minor Photoshop retouching before release, which is in the handover documentation that was provided to them.

+ What it did +

I taught it rather than kept it

Three two hour workshops with build sprints in between, and a written production playbook at the end. Their marketing lead and senior designer build and run it now. That was the brief. The engagement was knowledge transfer, not production.

Standard
A benchmark written as a specification rather than collected as a mood board.
Identity
One Rixus look that holds across every category, so a charger and a case read as the same brand without being art directed separately.
Input cost
Zero reshoots. The system runs off the plain white background studio shots already in their catalogue.
Handover
Owned and run in house from the end of the third workshop. Nothing routes back through me.
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