ARMOIRE

Duration: 2 Weeks
Project Overview
Conduct interviews with students from around the college to try and find some common issues that many of the students face everyday. Build a solution using Interactive Design. Communicate your design through video presentation.
Process
Interviews - Survey - Concept Generation - Concept Ideation - Prototyping - Testing - Repeat - Final Design - Storyboard - Film - Edit - Present
After conducting interviews we gathered that some people were finding it troublesome to pick out what to wear each day. Some going so far as to say they would prefer to be late for college rather than go in an outfit they didn't like. We put together a survey to see what else we could learn, focusing on trying to find out what was most important to people around their decision making process.
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With ARMOIRE we aim to create the perfect assistant for clothing management . App-arel (if you'll allow it) made fun. We also wanted to create something that was useful, connected to the daily weather and with the intention of being able to track your clothes. Collecting data on where particular garments are within the house through RFID tags that would be, in an alternative future, stitched into all clothes. Each garment would have a trackable story, how many times has it been worn? When was the last time you wore it? Would you be more likely to donate clothes onto a charity shop or swap with a friend if you knew you hadn't donned those red corduroy pants in over a year?
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We created a conceptual app that would suggest outfits to you based off your mood and colour association, the weather and appropriate outfit options and category class of work, causal and party.
Concept
Collaborators
Lorna Quinn & Eubha Kelly

Interview Topics

  • Waiting in Queues
  • Drying your hair
  • Waiting in the barbers
  • Hoovering
  • Ironing
  • Washing Clothes
  • Hanging out washing
  • Bins
  • Changing bed covers
  • Picking out clothes
  • Defrosting the windshield
  • Rolling cigarettes
  • Burning toast
  • Being on hold on the phone
  • Ads on the internet

Questionnaire Questions

  • You find picking clothes to wear tedious?
  • You put a lot of thought into what you wear?
  • You ocassionally feel unsure about what to wear?
  • You would consider yourself fashionable?
  • What influences your clothing choices on any given day? (Pick more than one if applicable)
  • You like the idea of a uniform?
  • Your clothing choice can influence how you feel throughout the day?
  • Randomizing your clothing choice would be... ?
Results

Concept Generation & Ideation

We set ourselves the goal of coming up with 10 concepts each, 30 in total. We gave ourselves 45 minutes and when the time was up we let each team member go through their list. We then discussed the ideas we agreed were the most promising in further detail, fleshing them out.

In the end we ended up combining several ideas together for our final concept.

Prototyping

Before this project none of us had any experience writing Arduino code or building circuits so we had to learn fast and on the job. Lorna focused on researching code while I focused on what we would need to do to wire up the breadboard and what parts we would need in order to make our RFID tags scan and register an uptick in the amount of times the article had been worn.

Lorna researches the code we need and uploads it to our controller board

We stitched RFID Tags into some cloth so we could attach them to our clothes.

Final Design

Now that we had our working prototype inside its mockup housing we needed to build our App interface. The interface was styled from a painting Lorna did 12 months before the project. We wanted something calming for the morning and so knew we wanted pastel colours. When we mentioned this, the painting popped into Lorna's head and once we saw it we knew that would be our theme. The painting is pictured to the right. The rest of the interface's design was shaped by our interviews, survey answers and brainstorming session.

A good morning with an inspirational quote. Followed by a "Quick Select Outfit" option in case you're in a rush. A weather section which allows you to see the forecast for the day and help you plan your outfit.

You can add new garments to your inventory by photographing them and registering the RFID tag on your phone. The inventory can also be filtered by last scanned location ie. your wardrobe, shoe rack, washing machine etc.

Final Video

Before we shot the footage for the film we took the time to write down all the features of the design which we wanted to make sure we communicated in our video.

We created a storyboard so we knew what shots we needed to get for the edit. I then used Premier Pro to edit and export the video.

Scan the QR Code to see our website, test the interface on your own phone.

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