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In collaboration with Major Cosmetic Company
Experiential case study · Interaction design5 min read

Guided Product Discovery.

A customer says, “I'm looking for a red lipstick.” You have a dozen sister brands under one umbrella behind you. A guided experience that turns a color preference into a confident cross-brand recommendation — and keeps the human conversation in the foreground.

Product EnablementInteractive GuidanceDecision-Support System
RetailCross-sellCustomer Experience
At a glance
Problem

Too many sister brands for an advisor to keep in their head.

Answer

Pick a color family, see a few options across sister brands.

Result

Confident advisors, and customers who didn't feel sold to.

Articulate StorylineCross-device designConversational logicBrand visual systems
Atmosphere · The counter moment

A quiet, decisive object — held under warm light, considered before it's chosen.

03Experience principles

Where design, decision support, and real-time usability meet.

Guided interaction

Choices unfold in a paced, intentional sequence.

Visual hierarchy

Attention lands on the decision, never the noise.

Restrained usability

Quiet typography and motion frame the moment as advisory.

Human-centered

Built for the advisor guiding and the customer being guided.

Organizational outcomes

What guided discovery produces.

A practice architecture for product confidence — earned through exploration, not lectured.

Advisor

Confidence without catalog memorization.

Customer

A recommendation that feels guided, not pushed.

Brand

A repeatable sister-brand cross-sell model.

Step inside

Move through the guided flow as an advisor would.

The thread

Guiding the live color decision so the human conversation stays in the foreground — and the catalog quietly steps back.