2026

Design Awards Silver Winner - MyDen (Minjung Kim, Founder & Product Designer)

MyDen

Entrant

MyDen (Minjung Kim, Founder & Product Designer)

Category

User Experience (UX) - Product UX

Client's Name

Country / Region:

United States

MyDen reimagines the fragmented home décor journey as a connected, intelligent ecosystem.
Today, people scroll through endless inspiration on social media, read reviews on one platform, and shop on another, often without knowing if a product will truly fit their space. This disconnect leads to mismatched purchases, decision fatigue, and regret, creating unnecessary financial and material waste.

MyDen is built on the 3C framework of Content, Community, and Commerce. Within a single platform, inspiration, peer interaction, and transaction are structurally connected and continuously interpreted through an AI-driven system that understands real-life context such as room size, budget, lifestyle, and intent. Rather than offering generic recommendations, the system adapts to each user’s evolving preferences and spatial conditions, enabling more coherent, context-aware decisions instead of isolated, trend-driven purchases.

At the same time, MyDen transforms user behavior into structured, contextual data that feeds back into the system. This allows brands to anticipate emerging preferences based on real living environments, identify precise target segments, and plan production more accurately. As the system learns from both individual actions and collective patterns, it continuously refines recommendations while helping reduce overproduction.

MyDen is not just a shopping platform. It is a two-sided, AI-powered learning ecosystem that connects everyday decisions with long-term design and production strategy, creating more thoughtful and adaptive outcomes for both people and brands.

Credits

Product Designer
Minjung Kim
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