End-to-end · Mobile App

Kpopper Palace: a fair, joyful marketplace for Myanmar’s K-pop fans

End-to-end UX for a mobile shopping app — from market research to an interactive prototype with a unique in-app photocard trading feature.

Role

UX/UI Designer

Timeline

Oct – Dec 2023

Type

E-commerce mobile app

Tools

Figma, user interviews

The problem

Buying K-pop merchandise in Myanmar meant trawling Facebook groups: no price transparency, no stock visibility, no buyer protection, and no safe way to trade photocards. Fans paid first and hoped for the best.

Research: user interviews

I interviewed dedicated K-pop enthusiasts who are avid buyers of K-pop merchandise on Facebook. Their insights provided valuable perspectives on motivations, preferences, and challenges in the world of K-pop shopping — then I synthesised findings into personas, storyboards, and journey maps.

Important factors when buying K-pop merchandise

Quality80%
Reviews70%
Price50%
Delivery time20%

Design

Structure before screens

A fully structured information architecture and user flow reduced friction across browsing, ordering, payment, and trading journeys.

Wireframes

Low-fidelity wireframes mapped every core journey — home, product details, entertainment categories, cart, and checkout — before any visual design, so layout decisions were tested cheaply first.

High-fidelity prototype

Interactive mobile prototype with consistent typography, color system, and iconography aligned to modern UI standards — plus the features fans actually asked for:

Outcome

A complete, user-centered mobile shopping solution shaped by iterative testing and accessibility-focused decisions throughout. The trading feature in particular turned a risky social-media behavior into a safe, in-app experience.

This was the project that taught me journey mapping isn’t paperwork — it’s where the real product opportunities hide.

Visual theme

The app's identity comes straight from fandom culture: a soft lavender canvas, deep royal purple for actions, and an elegant serif for headings — glossy like a photocard, calm enough to shop in.

Color theme — from the final designs
Lavenderheaders · surfaces
Royal Purplebuttons · brand
Inktext · icons
Crimsonhero banner
Whitecontent cards

Key screens

From the final prototype — discovery, browsing by entertainment label, and a protected checkout in Myanmar kyat.

Kpopper Palace
Black Friday · $20 gift voucherSuper sale · 23 Nov – 30 Nov
Pre Orders
💿
New album pre-ordersShips with exclusive photocard
🎁
Gift vouchersSend to a fellow fan
HomeCategoryCartWishlistSettings
Home — drops & pre-orders
Entertainments
SM Entertainment JYP Entertainment YG Entertainment HYBE Labels CUBE FNC
Browse official merch by label
HomeCategoryCartWishlistSettings
Category — shop by entertainment label
Shopping Cart
💿
Red Velvet — The 3rd Album [Chill Kill]Photo Book Ver. (Random) · 44,500 MMK
Add your voucher code
Total44,500 Ks
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