Human-centered fashion

Nowadays, large fashion corporations slowly adopt human centered design (HCD) process to connect with end users. For example, Levi used this design process to find out what kind of feelings that a new line of jacket should elicit in humans. And at retail sales point, the handbag iconic brand Kate Spade ideated dozens of concepts to enhance the in-store experience of guests. However, the precise process of how to integrate human-centered design process with fashion design is ambiguous. This creates challenges for fashion designers to use this process in creating new fashion items to fill in the emotional need of the millennial. In this research, I shall document in how to use the human-centered design process to hone a fashion product through a rigorous iteration process. From "need" to "wear", three products were created to solve a pain point of women, the need of carrying their heels seamlessly while communing. Five major iterations were conducted to give birth to a line of innovative products that are wearable.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Mui, Melody Lok Yee.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Matthew S. Kressy and Steven Faerm.

• Engineering Systems Division.
• System Design and Management Program.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145234

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/145234