J's Closet

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  Prototype (left) and initial design (right)

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  initial design (main view)

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  initial design (show/edit garment view)

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  initial design (menu view)

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  initial design (add garment view)

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  initial design (J's picks view)

this is the revamped version of my team's submission

Inspiration

I am terrible with matching clothes, especially to the weather every morning, so I thought it would be nice to come up with an app that would recommend what to wear depending on weather

What it does

1. Get user's gender/preferences
2. Check current location’s weather through API and display current temperature and windshield temperature. Forecast the weather with simple English sentence such as Today will be colder than yesterday, or It will rain tomorrow, etc.
3. Help user coordinate the outfit based on the database of what the user has in his/her “closet." Consider the formality (business - business casual - smart casual - casual) of the clothes (entered during generating a new instance of clothing)
4. Allow user to set up gender and units

How I built it

I used xcode and Swift 2.0 to build the app, targeting iPhone 5, because iOS 9 works the most stable on it. I used Google to come up with sample images of garments (Uniqlo, American Eagle, Nike, North Face..) and my partners have designed the basic interface and the flow of UI.

Challenges I ran into

As the only computer person in the team, and also as an apprentice of json and xcode, I suffered a lot while Googling.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• First hackathon!
• First time working with json (I have never worked with any API!)
• First time working on an actual project with xcode/Swift

What I learned

So much!

What's next for J's Closet

• Actually getting weather API to work
• Getting potential partnering brands to advertise their garments
• Naming conventions! (our team members were confused with J's closet and wardrobe)

Built With

• swift
• xcode