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Design aim
Because I have neglected the Ning blog for a long time, here’s a reminder of what my mass customization tool is: to improve on an existing mass customization for shoes, by redesigning the design process of the customization, to allow a person to be more engaged and involved in the design process.

Keds and Zazzle
Out of all the mass customization tools for shoes I have researched the Ked’s Studio is one of the best shoe customization tools out there. What made Ked’s Studio stand out f… Continue

Proposal:

My idea for a mass customization tool still stands as the same, to improve on the existing customization tools for shoes, by adding the capability for a user to be engaged with the design process.

What I mean by ‘engage’ is for the user to be more involved or immersed in the designing aspect of the customization. Instead of mindlessly just choosing between set colour palettes, template patterns, and images, I want a user to be in the position of the ‘artist’, controlling what they cr… Continue

Mass customization: who wouldn’t want to wear or own something that has been ‘personalized’, seeping with personal style, and yes, I like customizing my own stuff too. But coming up with a whole new mass customization product is unbelievable hard. Google ‘Customize your own:’ and it comes up with 21 500 000 hits, from the practical e.g. t-shirts, to the not so practical such as ‘customize your own road sign’. For me, I have always been interested in customizing t-shirts, however lately it has be… Continue

Finally RUG designs have been generated- simply through the use of repeating shapes within shapes, and doing ALOT of experimentations with colour.
Here's a glimpse of what rug designs can be generated with the code:

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Introduction to context free:
Using a pre-existing context free code (http://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/view.php?id=1081 by Nom), playing around and changing the attributes within the code, as a way of understanding it and also modifying it to render a 'new' design.

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