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Zilo

Rethinking fashion commerce around decisions, not catalogs.

Zilo is a quick-commerce fashion platform built to deliver curated outfits in minutes, rethinking how users discover and buy fashion online. Fashion e-commerce today is optimized for selection, not decision-making — users are presented with endless options, leading to fatigue, low confidence, and high return rates. Zilo was an attempt to fundamentally rethink this model — not by improving browsing, but by eliminating the need for it.

Year2025
CategoryFashion Commerce
ServicesProduct Design, Brand Identity, Design System
Zilo — Homepage design
Challenge

The core issue was not logistics — it was decision friction. Users do not struggle to find products, they struggle to choose. Traditional catalog browsing creates choice overload, kills purchase confidence, and delays the impulse-driven nature of fashion purchases. The challenge was designing a system that reduces this friction while supporting instant gratification behavior.

Zilo — Brand cover
Role & Contribution

We shaped the end-to-end product experience, focusing on how users move from intent to purchase as quickly and confidently as possible. This included defining a curation-first UX model for fashion quick commerce, designing guided discovery experiences that replace traditional catalog browsing, building styling-led product interfaces to improve purchase confidence, and streamlining the journey from discovery to decision to checkout.

Approach

We shifted the product from a catalog-driven experience to a decision-driven system. Curation over catalog — presenting fewer, more relevant options instead of overwhelming grids. Confidence over comparison — showing products in styled contexts, not isolation. Speed over depth — reducing friction and shortening the path to purchase. Guided over manual discovery — helping users arrive at decisions instead of forcing them to search.

3xFaster purchase decisions
40%Fewer steps to checkout
Key Takeaway

This project was not about designing a better shopping app — it was about designing a system that helps users make better decisions, faster. The result was a new interaction model for fashion commerce where users decide faster, purchases feel more intentional, and the need for returns is reduced upfront.

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