If you are a fan of PUMA shoes like me, then you will have to check out their interactive tool that allows you to design your own custom shoe design! It is called the Mongolian Shoe BBQ. It is a very clever theme. The interactive Adobe Flash experience simulates a visit to a Mongolian style grill restaurant. A Mongolian BBQ restaurant is different than your traditional restaurant. In a Mongolian BBQ, you get to choose all your fresh ingredients for your meal, then the chef will prepare your dinner to your specific custom order. Puma takes this concept into the online shopping realm, and presents a menu of shoes for you the patron.
Some patrons just want one of the “house specialties”, for those people, just browse through the selection. This is the traditional way of ordering your meal. I wanted to design a custom puma shoe from the ground up. This is the Mongolian BBQ way of getting a personalized meal of my preference. It was really fun. You can change everything from the Side of the shoe, Top of the shoe, Back of the shoe, the Tongue, down to the color of the Puma logos. AWESOME!
While you choose your styles/colors, the picture of your “meal” updates in real time. What was impressive is that these are NOT boring flat style graphics that update with cheesy colors. The pictures of your custom shoe are real photographs of the shoe material. This gives you the ability to really see what the end result is going to look like.
I had a ball designing my shoe. Screenshots of my Puma masterpiece can be seen below at various angles. Hahaha don’t laugh, everyone has different taste, and this shopping tool is the perfect example of how to cater to a broad range of customers.
And if you are wondering if you can actually buy the custom designed Puma shoes that your create, the answer is YES! There is a Buy Now button. The total cost was $100.00 US. Not bad for a unique pair of shoes.
So if you love PUMA shoes, be sure to visit the Mongolian Shoe BBQ site and go wild! Just be careful, it is very easy to make an ugly pair of shoes. But with a little trial and error, you can come up with a design to suit your taste.
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