DressExchange
The Problem
For many college-age women who enjoy parties, figuring out which dress to wear to a party is often a problem. Many parties have implicit fashion "rules" which limit the styles of dress that can be worn, and furthermore, many women feel that even a suitable dress can't be worn more than once or twice to different parties, as it would make them look boring or unoriginal. The advent of social networking and widely available party photos has further exacerbated this problem of being recognized in the same dress at different parties. Currently, the only solution seems to be to purchase a new dress for every new party, which tends to be both very expensive and wasteful, and leads to a buildup of barely-worn dresses which can't be reused.
Our proposed solution to this problem is a website to which women can send their barely-worn dresses in exchange for points, which can then be used to "purchase" different styles of dresses listed on the site; the site's inventory consists entirely of almost-new dresses sent in by other women looking for exchanges. In this way, our site will help facilitate the inexpensive exchange of party dresses between its users, helping them reduce their expenses and sustain their partygoing lifestyle.
Original problem statement: MIT students want to do things with the little free time they have, and MIT, judging by the filled bulletin boards lining the Infinite, is a veritable hotbed of activity. But actually finding events to attend involves searching through a hodgepodge of mailing lists and manually scheduling events, which most students have neither the time nor energy to do. Events(MIT) aims to change this by creating an application to act as a central repository of events, including talks, career info sessions, performances, entertainment, and more. This application aims to be both easily searchable and quickly accessible for the MIT student on the go, and will hopefully make the process of finding recreation at MIT much simpler.
The Team
Baiaboo Rai
Peter Gilliland
Kaichen Ma
The Project
GR1 Revised - User and Task Analyses
GR1: User and Task Analyses - original