Final Post

The application that I designed is one that helps people pick out an outfit to wear each day. Have you ever had that morning where you wake up and look at the weather and cannot piece together an original outfit to wear that given day? Well, have no fear because this application will help you brush away any stress pertaining to what you’re going to wear that day! The basic set up of the application is that the user will take photographs of every article of clothing in their closet including clothing, shoes, jewelry, hats, and scarves the list goes on! Using these photographs my application has different options to help narrow down the criteria to generate the perfect one of a kind outfit!

There are some applications already created that guide you in creating a perfect outfit, but to set my app apart from others I added some interesting additions to make mine more appealing. After all of these photos are uploaded, you as a user can input your zip code to allow the application to access the weather for your given location. This is helpful because some days you just have no idea what to wear if its in between temperatures, or if its raining and you need something cute to wear with a pair of rain boots! Another perk to this application is that not every person has a set type of style. I know that I can be preppy some days and others I am feeling more edgy. So, there is an option to pick a style that you are going for that day and it will decipher through the different colors of clothing you have in your online closet. These two additions to the application make it more advanced and guarantees for there to be more success when the app generates your perfect outfit.

When I was trying to think about how to make this application more realistic and appealing to the users the idea came to mind where you could try and duplicate an outfit of your favorite celebrities.  I am constantly looking on sites like tumblr, pintrest, and other social media sites and wish that I could put an outfit together like some of the most fashionable superstars. This application lets you try and mimic their outfits by you clicking on a particular outfit and uploading it to the application. Then the application separates each piece of their outfit and finds pieces from your closet that match what they were wearing. Once it does this you then have your version of your favorite celebrity’s outfit without spending a penny!

To make my application better known I would try to reach out to college campuses and have representatives to get my name out there. In today’s world, social media is the best way to get any small idea bigger. By using the applications services provided to share your outfits make this application a lot more social then just an application for you individually. For example, by being able to follow different users and view their outfits it allows you to have some outfits to work off from to create your own. And gives you a wider viewing range. This gives the application a chance to become more popular and the chances of other people joining will be greater by being able to share outfits with friends and to social media sites.

I would love for this application to actually have a chance of becoming a reality. I feel as though it has evolved over time in the way that there are ways to share your ideas and outfits with the public, but in a safe way. This is a very realistic idea because this generation is glued to technology, and this application requires technology (your smartphone and the computer). Another very appealing thing about this application is that you do not need to spend any money! It is totally free, which is extremely appealing because most of society today is very conscience of what they spend their money on. By reading the feedback of the comments left on my blog it assures me that there are people out there who would truly benefit from this application and use it on a normal basis! So hopefully I can find out what steps I have to take next to create my magical online closet!  

Lecture Post 5

My application that I created takes all the stress away about picking out an outfit! This application uses photographs that you take of every article of clothing you have in your closet, and creates an original outfit that you have never worn before. You as a user are able to put in your location so this application can make you an outfit that is weather appropriate, as well as you can tell it what kind of outfit you are looking for, whether it be preppy, punk, or professional.

This week in lecture we talked about cryptography and how it is basically another word for domain name. Having a domain name is a string of numbers that is the name of your website. When an individual goes to type in a website, no one would remember a string of numbers, so there are words that make up the string of numbers so it is easier for viewers to visit the site.

For my clothing application if I were to create a website to go along with the application, the site would have a list of numbers, I wouldn’t expect any of the people who use my application to remember these numbers so I would make a website name that has to do with magic outfit creator.  You have to make sure that no domain names have already been used though, because I don’t want other people using a competitive site rather than my own.

Another big issue today with websites is security. Especially websites that could potentially contain personal information. Malware is when a computer gets a type of virus, and most of the time it is to gain access to some type of financial information. If someone created an outfit and some wanted to buy something off of the site to buy an article of clothing that someone liked, they would have to input their credit card information. This information needs to be secure. We learned that to guarantee the security of your credit information you need to see https instead of http in the search box. Security can also come from downloading anti virus software as well. Any type of protection is good to have and to avoid having any information stolen from you.

Lecture Post 4

My application that I want to create is designed to help you not have to stress out about what you want to wear everyday. This app takes the photographs of pieces of clothing that you take and generates a new original outfit everyday depending on the weather and what you want look you want to go fro that day. As a user you are also able to share your pictures of your outfits through social media sites and keep track of your outfits through spreadsheets.

Some of the most popular operating systems running today are Windows, Unix, Mac OS, and Linux. My application can be used on any type of operating system. Once the photographs of the outfit are uploaded and synched you should be able to have no problem using any type of photo editing tool such as Photoshop, because it will be able to be downloaded to fit any sort of operating system.

There are two types of operating systems; stand alone and embedded. For this application it is only really necessary to use stand-alone operating system because there are various types of security that is used, and it allows virtualization. Security is important because if you share photos through social media sites, or send photographs of your outfits you want to make sure that random people that you do not know aren’t able to view your photographs or your location from when you input your zip code to see the weather to generate your outfit. Virtualization is important because it stores your photographs in the cloud somewhere so they are never lost, and you can always find a way to find them.

Embedded OS also could work, because everything resides on a ROM chip on a mobile device. This is a good thing because you can download the application to your smart phone, which stores data using this ROM chip. The way that the application works is that you download the app to your phone, and use it on a mobile device then you sync the information to some other form of computer. So, initially there is use of an embedded operating system. 

Lecture Post 3

My entrepreneurial idea is to create an application that allows a user to have original outfits created everyday. The outfit is created using the photographs that you as the user upload to the application from your closet. The app also takes into account the weather for the given day, and what type of outfit the user wants to wear.

After learning how to use Photoshop after this week’s lab, I realized what creative things you can do to a certain photograph. You can change the color scheme to photos to make them brighter, as well as change the color from shades of blue to red. You can also edit the picture to be clearer, crop an image, or enhance the photo. As an editor you can also add text to the image and move it to where you want.

With these editing tools you can do many things to the photographs of the outfits that the application creates for you. For example you can change the color of a certain top. By doing this you can see what the outfit would look like if you bought a shirt in a different color. By this it allows you as the user to have more options and see if you should purchase an item in a different color, and know if the colors look good together. Also if by knowing how to use a cropping tool, you can see articles of clothing separately and not just view them as one outfit. You can then try and mix and match these images to create your own outfit using ideas that the application originally thought of. You can use the cropping tool as a type of a puzzle, by comparing different outfits.

Photoshop can also be used as another type of storage for photographs. A perk to using Photoshop is that it saves your photos in the cloud. Your outfit photos being saved in the cloud guarantees that they will never be lost. Having a log in and account through Photoshop means that you can log onto any computer to access your edited pictures, and for any reason if your phone were to be erased, or a computer was to crash you would never loose the outfits because they are stored within the cloud!