Katherine Lee MFADT Candidate 2010
April 27, 2010
In a world where customization is increasingly used as a weapon to combat mass commoditization, customized items
themselves risk becoming commoditized to the point that they lose personal meaning.
The Kwyjibos Lab is a web application that allows users to design and order their own plush
creatures
( ).
This project is an exploration into how the customization process can be designed to
inspire users to create meaningful objects they have a personal connection with.
How can I enable mass customization while maintaining the aesthetic concerns of the co-‐
designers at each step?
{ comfort + familiarity + playfulness + nostalgia }
ownership of customized object
user experience
{user-‐generated narrative }
The Kwyjibos Lab achieves the goal of fostering user-‐generated narrative – room to explore more
deeply
The designer toy consumer depends on aesthetic of designer/artist who creates it
How much does my own aesthetic factor into kwyjibos?
comments? questions? deep, dark secrets?
what do you think?
thank you.
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