At this flagship store, which seeks to raise awareness and understanding of the SHISEIDO brand through experiences that stimulate the quest for beauty, WOW was involved in the following:

UI/UX Design for Products and Services on 1F and 2F
WOW was entirely in charge of the UI/UX design of the technology-intensive store fixtures on the first and second floors at the flagship store. Since store fixture location and enclosure design are closely associated with UX, in order to achieve the best UI/ UX, WOW has worked with companies on co-creation from interior design to store fixture design and backend development.

Planning, Directing, and Producing Installation Works That Embody the Brand
For the installation of the water basin, which is now the symbol of SHISEIDO’s flagship store, WOW was in charge of everything from conceptualizing the symbol to design, program development, and implementation, based on and linked to the store concept that SHISEIDO had conceived.

Planning, Direction, and Production of PR Tools (Video and Graphics)
WOW planned, directed, and produced introductory videos, graphic tools, and various other flagship store contents.

Here at the SHISEIDO GLOBAL FLAGSHIP STORE, with all its partnering businesses gathering, you will see digital contents that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. WOW spent time and had a discussion with SHISEIDO and its partnering businesses, allowing our collaboration to proceed smoothly. WOW applied SHISEIDO’s positioning ideas to the store’s UI/UX design, installation, and PR tools to create an integrated design and user experience.

UI Design Concepts
・ Stress-Free UX
・ Space Affinity
S Connect, in Support of Contents Experience and Shopping
1F – Play with Beauty
・ Visual Effects During Standby Screen
・ The Beauty Intelligent Partner “LEAH”
2F – Create Your Own Beauty
Water Feature Installation “SOURCE OF ALIVE”

S CONNECT is a wristband that records the results of the contents you have experienced and the products you would like to purchase. The wristband is linked to all the products and contents in the store, and if you follow the signs and hold the wristband over the signs, the wristband will record the products you want in your shopping cart. When you are ready to check out, simply hold the wristband over one of the tablets at the checkout counter, and you will be able to go home with everything you want.

Overseas, Amazon Go provides a similar service. At the time of its development, however, S CONNECT was not yet widely used in Japan, so the challenge we faced was to help people what it is for and how to use it.


WOW was behind the creation of the UI for S CONNECT with features that facilitate user understanding. In addition to helping the user experience products, the wristband was also designed to record the user's favorite products in their cart and to help them proceed smoothly at the checkout counter. This feature has been embedded in all experiential content that can be purchased.

Customers can try all the experience contents on the first floor to explore what they like and choose what they want. WOW was in charge of the UI design for the five experiential contents set up on the first floor. This floor runs on self-service with no Beauty Consultants. As such, we were faced with the challenges of helping customers gain content experience and conveying product information. We wanted the floor to be a place where people run into items that they were not previously aware of.

Standby Screen to Facilitate Understanding of Operation
When encouraging users to experience a new device, one of the most important points to keep in mind is that we need to help them want to try using the device without their being resistant. A video explaining the operation will be shown on the standby screen to take the user through the process. This technique was commonly incorporated into the design of all experiential contents.


The Beauty Intelligent Partner “LEAH”
“LEAH,” a character from SHISEIDO, will act as a guide to users on behalf of Beauty Consultants to assist with operations of the machine. In order for LEAH to act as a guide for the store’s customers and for it to work closely with the UI in terms of information organization, WOW defined the role of LEAH within the experience content. With LEAH, the customer can find exactly the information he or she needs no matter which content they operate. We consulted with LEAH’s designers to keep LEAH the way it is and also to ensure that it would function properly even with all the information uploaded to it.


Please refer to Vol.2 for details about the five contents.

On this floor, customers can receive counseling and customized services from SHISEIDO’s Beauty Consultants. - where you can discover your own unique beauty with the help of SHISEIDO’s professionals based on the results of your experience and lifestyle diagnosis on the first floor. WOW was in charge of designing the UI for the counseling tablets and the UI design for the imprinting service. This is where you discover beauty like you never have through conversations with SHISEIDO’s Beauty Consultants.


Please refer to Vol.2 for details about this floor.

Water is the source of makeup, and as it pours down from the ceiling onto the water feature, ripples of “light” emerge fluidly with it, circulating and changing as if water and light were always breathing. The water droplets are computer-controlled, mimicking heartbeats. SHISEIDO’s skincare technology helps with nerve transmission and immunity activation within the skin. The ripples on the ceiling are supposed to resemble both of these.