As someone who is a designer that also has a passion for jewelry design; for my capstone project I thought about the jewelry personalization experience and realized that there is untapped potential. My research showed me that almost all "personalized" jewelry is just custom laser engraving, which doesn't really allow for much personalization other than some text and some simple icons etc.

This led me to think about how then, can I create a new experience that allows users to create something that is completely unique and customized to them? Next was thinking about what is personal to people and why people wear jewelry. Some of the answers were for fashion, it used to belong to a family member, they bought it when they were travelling or they just like the piece in general. But one thing that I thought of that resonates with almost everyone are places! Places can have significant meaning for people; places they were born or grew up, places that they travelled, got married, honeymoons and so many more other memories! Places have the ability to evoke emotion and visual memories which are core to each person. With memories as the anchor for the user I continued think about how I can transplate physical places onto a piece of jewelry.