How did they address the issues of glasses fogging up or it being inconvenient to drink water when running in a running hoodie?
When running in cold weather with a hoodie on, your breath can fog up your glasses or it becomes difficult to drink water while running, forcing you to stop. It makes you wonder how these real-life inconveniences faced by runners were resolved in the garment.
OZN collected issues with glasses fogging up, hydration, and packing that runners actually experienced through a tester program and reflected them directly in the hoodie development.
When running on a cold day with a running hoodie pulled down low, your breath easily rises up to obscure your glasses, and the collar often gets in the way when trying to drink water while running. Another frequent problem runners face is the hassle of simply bundling and packing the hoodie away when taking it off as the body warms up while running.
OZN considers such user experiences an essential element of product development and operates a tester program in which users directly participate[1]. Rather than stopping at fabric functional tests, they create garments through testing and feedback experienced by testers running in the field[2]. Issues directly raised by testers—glasses fogging up, hydration movements during running, and packing conveniently after taking it off—were fully reflected in the development of the hoodie for runners[3].
hmmm, it is as if the flow of breath or the angle of a water bottle, which cannot be known simply by calculating figures at a desk, were retrieved directly from the fingertips of people who run.
It has not yet been confirmed through what structural methods the hoodie's pattern or cuts resolved the glasses fogging and hydration issues.