User Research on A Bathing Ape Apparel Firm & Japanese Culture Research Paper

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Please Base on this file, and add content in Introduction, Trends, Interview, Recommendation and Summary. (For the interview, just create some sentences base on the content). Please add 500 words in it.

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A good comprehensive user research report will:

  • Start with an overall summary of findings and then explain more by organizing findings by trends, focusing on what is most relevant to your organization/influencer/group.
  • Professionally, clearly, and directly analyze and discuss the findings of your user research. Stylistically, this report should sound objective, data-driven, and user-focused—overall, it should imitate the language of the examples provided. This report should focus on the implications of your user research for your chosen organization/group/influencer's content strategy. Your audience shouldn’t be me, but instead your organization.
  • Use evidence (quotes from users) throughout to support your findings.
  • Conclude with preliminary recommendations for building, improving, altering, etc. content strategy based on your findings from the interviews (as well as from the content strategy analysis, if there are connections you want to make).
  • Demonstrate an understanding of effective and persuasive design principles (i.e., your report shouldn’t look like an academic paper; it needs to look like a packaged, branded report that you would give to a client).


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Bape User Research Report 1 USER RESEARCH ON BAPE User Research on BAPE 2 Overview I did a user experience research on Bape with an aim of understanding usability constraints and general usage analysis in terms of users’ behaviors, habits, perceptions, experiences, etc. based on its user experience design. In order to strategically understand the users and their needs, I had to apply a mix of both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to obtain the necessary data attributes. The qualitative data is meant to serve as a descriptive data and takes more look at how the users think and feel, whereas, the quantitative data is meant to provide numerical data statistics - measurable and analyzable, meant to quantify the opinions and the behaviors exhibited by the users. I conducted extensive research on BAPE's users in a bid to understand their preferences, perceptions, behavioral patterns, needs, and experiences as regards the company's products and strategies. Since its establishment in the early '90s, the brand boasts many original releases such as BAPE STA and Shark Hoodie which helped the User Research on BAPE 3 company gain a foothold in the street-wear industry (BAPE, 2019). This research included interviews which led to a considerable number of discoveries about consumer behavior, regarding BAPE. User Research on BAPE 4 Trends Based on the methodology data obtained, the following were some common usability trends, statistical and analytical as they navigate on bape.com: Trends 1-Uniqueness and Originality "Yeah I know BAPE. It's definitely a huge brand. For the street brand and has a very rich background for these street brands." “BAPE has very unique logo. Its products also popular in street brands.” The company's strict adherence to originality in their products is one of the reasons why they boast among the most loyal customers of streetwear in the world. They offer a variety of unique commodities from BAPE STA footwear which are among the top most expensive shoes globally, to the Shark Hoodies that scream a lot of Hip Hop in its pattern. The company also manages to maintain is high quality in design User Research on BAPE 5 among other factors, thereby ensuring that they retain their clients even with the expensive price tags on commodities. Trends 2-Collaborations "From a personal perspective. Definitely the collaboration of BAPE and Adidas which is a really huge corporation in fashion." Most individuals who use BAPE do close deals due to the influence provided for by famous artists in the entertainment industry. The company all through its inception to date, has had interests in using artist collaboration in its content strategies. Additionally, most BAPE consumers are ardent internet and social media users from which they get most of their news on fashion. These factors help to influence trends, thereby increasing or decreasing the traffic in BAPE's websites by affecting the interests of clients to visit the site and make purchases. Trend 3 - Bape's Design and Information Organization User Research on BAPE 6 "I think the company should be posting some specific information about their brand." Many participants complained of the general outlook of BAPE's sites, citing little information regarding the overall company, products on stock, and notifications for future releases. Additionally, BAPE's official website appears dull and less interactivity as compared to Supreme which is more colorful and easy to navigate, allowing customers to spend more time on it. BAPE also did not make use of a customerreferring system that increased customer awareness on their fellow clients' activities on the site. Trends 4- Bape's official website experience “I think the official website of this brand is relatively simple, I tried to open it. Find the content very concise, the content is not a lot. And there's a little lag when I open it.” User Research on BAPE 7 Website contents lack substantial information, at times non-informative and non-relevant. This hinders the websites visitors’/users’ confidence in the Bape.com’s knowledge and competence. Some functionality constraints existed. For instance, the website’s page load time was still high and this frustrates the users and makes them disillusioned about the website. A typical page is expected to load in 20 seconds or even less. Again, the functionality issue affects the scrolling and clicking actions the user undertakes on navigation. Lastly, on the cross-platform compatibility issue – actually, the website lacks the current professional responsive designing features where a user cannot easily obtain information on the website using a mobile device’s platform. Trends 5- Instagram and Facebook Are Popular Platforms “I use Instagram to look through the brand daily. It spend me hours a day. I also use Facebook because BAPE also has posts on Facebook.” User Research on BAPE 8 “I’d like use Instagram. This is the most popular platform today. I use it for 2 hours a day.” Instagram and Facebook are the most popular platforms for BAPE. According to the users research interview, they use Instagram for average 2 hours a day and use Facebook for half an hour. Users use Instagram and Facebook to follow BAPE and get new products and trends information. These social media will attract users to purchase the products through photos and posts. User Research on BAPE 9 Recommendations - Improve on the overall website appearance, since this also an upper hand in the users’ judgments - Have substantial contents when it comes to information being relayed on the webpages - Improve on the overall functionality quality and effects of the webpages like the page load time constraints - Improve on the overall usability, since this is the primary factor a user determines when surfing - Many participants feel that the general outlook on BAPE's site should be subject to massive improvements. From contrast, pattern, the balance of colors and variety, the company should enhance the design in the quest to attract more visitors and making navigation more straightforward and aesthetically attractive. User Research on BAPE 10 Summary The sole purpose of any informative website is to provide quality information that will encourage more users or visitors to make visits and stay on the website for a long time possible. Maintaining and improving the website’s visiting traffics demands a lot of considerations especially comes to user experience and usability designing of a website. User Research on BAPE 11 References BAPE. (2019). BAPE.COM | A BATHING APE OFFICIAL SITE. Retrieved from https://bape.com/index/
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Bape User Research Report 1

USER RESEARCH ON BAPE

User Research on BAPE 2
Introduction
BAPE is one of the leading apparel firms that spread the Japanese culture and fashion in various
regions around the world. Streetwear brands, colorful sneakers and graphic prints characterize
BAPE. Brands such as Yves Saints, Givenchy, and Browne attract young people and this means
more revenues for the firm. However, despite the unique and attractive brands, the company
encounters varied consumer tastes and preferences. BAPE has a user experience design
framework in place but this does not imply that it suits a majority of potential clients. To that
end, this study seeks to conduct a user experience research on the organization with an aim of
understanding usability constraints and general usage analysis in terms of users’ behaviors,
habits, perceptions, experiences, etc.
Overview
In order to strategically understand the users and their needs, I had to apply a mix of both
qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to obtain the necessary data attributes.
The qualitative data is meant to serve as a descriptive data and takes more look at how the users
think and feel, whereas, the quantitative data is meant to provide numerical data statistics measurable and analyzable, meant to quantify the opinions and the behaviors exhibited by the
users. I conducted extensive research on BAPE's users in a bid to understand their preferences,
perceptions, behavioral patterns, needs, and experiences as regards the company's products and
strategies.
Since its establishment in the early '90s, the brand boasts many original releases such as BAPE
STA and Shark Hoodie which helped the company gain a foothold in the street-wear industry

User Research on BAPE 3
(BAPE, 2019). This research included interviews which led to a considerable number of
discoveries about consumer behavior, regarding BAPE.

User Research on BAPE 4
Interviews
I employed face to face and over the phone semi-structured interview approach to gather data
from respondents about their experiences about the firm and product usability. I had questions to
serve as guidelines when collecting data about the customers’ habits, perceptions, and
experiences regarding BAPE brands. Approximately 64% of the participants were between age
18 and 31 and the remaining group was above 31 years; meaning that ...


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