General Assembly Hackathon
Project Breif
We were given the prompt of creating an app related to "Environmental Sustainability", and then split into groups. Our group consisted of 2 developers and 2 Ux designers and it was our first time working in a multi-discipline team.
Brainstorming
For our first order of business, we needed to settle on an idea quickly, given our time constraints. From the UX perspective, we needed to determine what our developers could accomplish and develop an idea within that scope. The main points we got out of the first day of working with each other are as follows:
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Community-based
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Makes it easier for people to reduce consumption
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incentivize the use of our service to customers
The Idea
After deciding on the goals, we wanted to accomplish with our app and taking into account the ability of our developers, we landed on trying to reduce the need for people to rely on fast fashion. The fast fashion industry is estimated to contribute 10% of the current global pollution, making it the 2nd highest industrial polluter in the world. We landed on an idea for creating Our Closet, a sustainable clothing rental community.
User Interviews
We conducted a few interviews to determine the market for a service like Our Closet. Through these insights, we created this persona to guide our discussions on required features and understand our users.
Minimum Viable Product
We took our Idea to the developers and came up with a minimum viable product, an outline of features that could plausibly be accomplished in the time we had left. Here is the list of features we landed on:
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Account creation with google sign-on.
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Screen name setup associated with each account
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A browse feature with the ability to search by keywords and filter options.
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Post item listing with image name and description and option to add tags
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The option to place an offer with check out, return date, and a message
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The option to reject or accept an offer.​​
Greyscale Wireframes
The UX team created greyscale wireframes and had a meeting with the devlopers so they could start developing the front end.
Useability Testing
We conducted useability tests on a prototype we created from our wireframes to determine if people could intuitively understand how to navigate the interface at its base level. The tasks that we asked users complete were as follows:
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Create an account and make a listing
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Navigate to a piece of clothing and place an offer
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Find message inbox and approve a request.​
From this, we decided to add the option to sign in without a google account. We let our developers know and created other sign-in options in the high-fidelity prototype.
High-Fidelity
This was the final design we handed off to our developers about 24 hours before the conclusion of the hackathon.
Next Steps
Due to time constraints and the small team we had, there were many ideas we did not have time to explore. We only focused on designing the ideas within the abilities of our developers. Here are some of the ideas that got cut for time:​
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Increase safety
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Distance Filter
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Availability Calendar