Inspiration
We built this project as we all faced the "Seattle Freeze-" a term that many are familiar with. It's especially difficult in university to meet new people and maintain connections. This led us to decide to build Affair, an event finder specifically for students that pushes chatting with others and meeting up at events.
How we built it
We first drew rough wireframes in FigJam together to work out the user experience and user interface of the app. We then began working on Figma to prototype a higher fidelity version, while keeping in mind the languages we'd like to implement the demo in. We then styled a concept for an event card in HTML and CSS, and implemented the EventBrite API using JavaScript to fill out the information fields in the style of the event card.
Challenges we ran into
We initially struggled with determining how to create a demo for our app that would demonstrate some level of functionality and technicality with limited knowledge of coding. We decided that we would do a rough demonstration showing how we would implement an API into the app, but three of us in the group had limited coding experience, and zero experience working with APIs. We spent a lot of time reviewing EventBrite API documentation and reviewing the basics of APIs, especially as we also had limited JavaScript knowledge.
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