Blog 3. Project outcomes and personal development
Blog 3. Project outcomes and personal development
Group projects always associate with amazing collaboration and extensive gain of different kinds of skills and for sure knowledge. Following the final week, our group was working on the final project. The whole group was in anticipation of creating something significantly valuable for the modern world, taking into account ecological disasters and other threats that the fashion industry brings with itself.
It is important to add, that we have chosen one concept from the list of proposed and discussed plans. By the way, we came up with a vast variety of notions starting from 3D dissolving fabric and finishing with an ecologically sustainable underground e-money society. As we had a lot of ideas, we have been discussing them upon, doing a SWOT analysis, and thinking of what good cause it may bring to the world.
And finally, we came with an idea of a vintage cloth app called Retrograde. This app is an amazing mix of fashion, sustainability, and emerging technologies. Moreover, the app predicts trends for vintage cloth, as well as helping people to make money from their wardrobes with the ability of the app to calculate how much your wardrobe worth. We have decided to create trend mapping that helps to get familiar with local trends. Also, it is very exciting how the vintage fashion market excessively overtakes high street fashion. Transgenerational application is one big step in slowing down the fashion industry, which is vitally important in the nowadays ecological situation. We also have paid great attention to the informative side of the app, rising consciously aware consumer ship providing information on different issues like major fashion houses and their vintage heritage and influence. All these features make these programs unique and irreplaceable for people who are interested in vintage items as well for ones who want to start their journey in slow fashion.
As for me, during the process of polishing, reflecting, and extending the idea, I realized how I can combine and use different technologies in making one application, that it is extremely interesting to me. Furthermore, it was an amazing opportunity to learn how you can use data in building respectable software. I was concerned about how to create useful and full in different features program that for sure would be able to make this world better, but also would be able to change consumers’ attitude and make major companies review their policies and manufacture. Besides this, I think that not only big companies should have advisors in trend predicting, but everybody as it sharply minimizes the production and consumption of fashion products, moreover it has chances to change the psychology of shopping.
To sum up, said below information, the project taught me all nuances when it comes to creating an app. I was lucky to learn tread mapping, partly coding, and data usage. After completing the project, I feel way more confident in the approach that emerging technologies are highly important for the mechanism of the fashion industry.