Minimal Closet
UX Design
Minimal closet app is a personal project for UX certification from General Assembly. The goal of having a minimal closet app is that people would have a minimal amount of clothing to choose from on a daily basis making your life easier and simpler. As a result, people will have smart consume habits.
Project: General Assembly | Project Date: Feb 2021
DISCOVER
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About
Your home may not always where your heart is - but your home can be where your stress begins. First thing in the morning, if you get into uncontrollable confusion from the disaster that is your closet,
What do you think your day is going to be like?
but if your space is organized, you will have a better chance of being organized in your professional life.
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CHALLENGE
You have a lot of clothes you never looked for a while.
PROBLEM
If you still have a lot of clothes that you've never found in the bag or box, then think about donating them.
SOLUTION
Create a daily fashion planner app by setting up a self-fashion inventory of your clothes so that you can track what to wear usually.
User Interview
For my user interview, I created a Google survey form to reach out the interviewees. I interviewed 3 users between the ages of 35 and 43 years old, male and female, single and work professionals.
WHAT I LEANRED FROM USER INTERVIEWS
They do not spend much time looking for clothings in the morning. They like simple styles and seem to know what fashion style they want. They do not even know how many clothes they have. They want to focus more on their professional life.
The Problem
People need to find out where it is and what they have it to wear because it took lots of time to find their clothes and where they were.
User need to know that they get dressed faster and know that they will look and feel great by preparing what to wear every morning so that they can spend their daily life easier and greater.
TOO MUCH CLOTHES
You already have one right now in your closet and you don't even realize it.
OUT OF STYLE
The problem is trends change, clothes change, and most importantly we change.
LACK OF SPACE
A chronically cluttered home environment can lead to a constant low-grade fight.
DISORGANIZED LIFE
Removing clutter allows you the space to ask important questions about your life.
Reserch
"Buying more and more things we think we need, and then not getting rid of them, is an actual disorder in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V)."
Research shows that disorganization and clutter can have a negative impact on our brains. Our brains thrive with order. When our home is disorganized or untidy, the visual distraction of clutter increases cognitive overload and can reduce our working memory and impede our focus.
DEFINE
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PERSONA
Julie / 38 / Work professional / Single / NY
Julie is a working professional. and When she was 20s she liked to buy clothes and fashion items, now her clothing styles are changed. Her current style is modern, monochrome, and multi-functional
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BEHAVIORS
She has a habit of choosing to wear the same clothes over and over again. Usually in the morning, she get dressed faster and wear same style clothings to save time.
STORIES AND SCENARIOS
Julie is a mid-30s working professional. and When she was 20s she liked to buy clothes and now she realized that in her wardrobe, there are many clothes she never tried on.
FRUSTRATIONS
She found that in her closet, there are clothings she never tried on. Whenever she opened her closet she was digging through drawers to grab them and she complaint I have nothing to wear.
NEEDS AND GOALS
She wants to know what type of clothes she usually wear or clothes that she hasn’t used in years after tracking what to wear usually. If her space is organized, she'll have a better chance of being organized in her professional life. She does’t waste time or mental energy deciding if things match.
How Might We
HMW donate clothes that you haven't used in years after tracking what to wear usually?
HMW build your own outfit so that you don't need to re-think what you are going to wear to work or other special occasions.
User Flow
1.Import photos of clothes users took and add the items to the Closet section.
2. Build own outfits. 3. Categorize all items that users uploaded
4. Schedule daily outfits. 5. Find what to wear usually and what not to wear and decide whether to donate or not.
DESIGN
LOW-FIDELITY WIREFRAME SKETCH
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1.Import photos of user’s clothes and add items to the Closet section.
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2. Build your own outfits.
3. Categorize all user uploaded items
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4. Schedule daily outfits.
5. Find what you usually wear and what don’t and decide whether to donate or not.
LOW-FIDELITY WIREFRAME
DELIVER
USABILITY TEST
FEATURES
Organize your closet, track what you are wearing, and plan your outfits.
ISSUES
How to categorize items. Change the bar menu format to horizontal scroll format.
Static bar menus make it difficult to identify the entire item.
IMPROVEMENT
Horizontal Scrolling: Attracting interest via horizontal scrolling
Display uploaded item images instead of illustrated images
FEATURES
Filtered navigation is more important than search.
IMPROVEMENT
The initial sketch was a drop-down format for selecting specific categories.
To avoid hiding items from the drop-down box, I tried to display top horizontal scrolling format, but It might need to keep scrolling when many Items added.
Vertical menu: Clean the main screen off low critical content and go to the side panel
Contain extensible categories, Select a side panel format.
TEST GOALS
Import photos of user's clothes and add items to the Closet section.
ANALYZE RESULTS
Most testers struggle to find upload photo icon directly.
Need to find a better way to upload photos.
IMPROVEMENT
Change the position of the upload photo icon to the main navigation bar on the bottom.
Delete the home section to avoid confusion with the bottom navigation.
HIGH-FIDELITY
Minimal Closet
Main Screen
Closet
Manage Your Closet, browsing whole items with one hand.
Upload Photo
Import photos of clothes users took and add items to Closet section.
PROTOTYPE
NEXT STEPS
1. Continue to develop the donation feature.
2. Complete overall visual design & prototyping
3. Further testing to refine the layout and functionality of the application.
What I learned for this project is not only did I learn a lot about technical skills and theory about user experience, but also that UX design can make people's lives better and lead to positive results in our society.