Faculty of Design
Industrial Design
Mabel Kasunic
Shopify Front
Industrial Design
2026
Shopify Front transforms physical retail into a live testing environment. Instead of relying on assumptions or digital metrics, it allows businesses to observe real-world behavior, gather spatial insights, and refine products through temporary storefronts before scaling.
“Retail today operates in a blind spot. While e-commerce provides detailed behavioral data, physical retail—where products are actually experienced—remains largely unmeasured in real time. Businesses rely on delayed sales metrics, intuition, or costly long-term commitments to make decisions about products, layouts, and strategy.This project challenges that gap by reframing physical retail as a live intelligence system rather than a fixed point of sale. Shopify Front introduces a two-sided platform where businesses can deploy temporary storefronts as testing environments, capturing behavioral signals such as movement, hesitation, and engagement within space.Unlike existing solutions that prioritize conversion, this system prioritizes observation. It shifts the focus from persuasion to participation, allowing businesses to learn from real human interaction instead of predicted behavior.The impact is a more adaptive, responsive retail ecosystem—one where decisions are grounded in reality, not assumption, and where physical space becomes an active part of product development rather than its final step.”
Work by
Mabel Kasunic
“I’m Mabel Kasunic, an industrial designer driven by curiosity around how people interact with the world around them. My work focuses on turning everyday environments into spaces for learning. Where...” [More]
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