Clarity

A web application that would provide a public, accessible resource that helps educate consumers about the brands they support so they can make well-informed, more ethical decisions.

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Inspiration

  • Our ultimate vision is to create a platform where users can look up a company's name and click a button to generate visual representation of the data that's accessible to anyone.
  • We are passionate about the environment and wanted to use our skills to make positive change through digital tools.

What it does

  • Interactive website that serves as a template for receiving and displaying data.
  • Buttons link to other pages and external links

How we built it

  • Mapped out a list of what we wanted for our prototype based on what was attainable in 36 hours
  • Divided up responsibilities between front-end and back-end sub-teams
  • Researched tools and decided to use Django, HTML, CSS, Python
  • Used GitHub as our central, shared repository
  • Worked together in the engineering complex to talk through ideas and collaborate to solve our issues.

Challenges we ran into

  • Issues installing Django
  • Had to create multiple versions of the repository
  • Issues with merge conflicts since there were four of us
  • Communicating our expectations and ideas
  • Timeline planning

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Appealing UI design
  • Effectively running the server
  • Creating a static site
  • Collaborating
  • Challenging ourselves with a big project but also adjusting our expectations along the way
  • Working from scratch as much as possible so we could better understand the inner-workings of our site

What we learned

  • Fundamentals of web development
  • Working as a team on a large project and how to divide up the workload
  • Learned how to use GitHub, LiveServer extension for VS Code, integrate Django, HTML, Python, and CSS

What's next for Clarity

  • We will have it interact with large volumes of data, have it automatically generate graphs on command for users.
  • Use real companies' data and market to real users
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