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Design Experiment

How personalized design is different from traditional design

What I learned from the Personalized fashion design using data visualization project.

Hyoyon Paik
UX Collective
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10 min readJul 10, 2019

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The tragedy of mass production

When I was looking for couple iPhone cases on the Internet, I got pissed off at last. There were all easily-created designs, non-meaningful graphics, and graphics that were not related to us at all. Of course, there were some products tried personalization such as putting initials or names, which were easy, simple, and not enough for me.

searching couple iPhone cases at Google

This experience led me to design couple items by myself. I created a personalized design process using data visualization of personal data. Before telling my design experiment, we need to know what is personalization and why does it matter.

What is personalization?

According to Blom (2000), personalization is defined as

“a process that changes the functionality, interface, information content, or distinctiveness of a system to increase its personal…

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Written by Hyoyon Paik

A different type of writer for analysis-loving individuals. As a researcher, I love to dig into the bottom http://hypaik.com/

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Hey Hyoyon,
I’m ran, a UX designer from Tencent.
I feel that it was a very interesting and informative piece of work. It would be great if the article can be translated to Chinese so that much more people in China will be able to enjoy and share your…

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‘A market for one’ was considered impossible, but now it is what we are facing.

A market *of* one. Very powerful concept.

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