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Our final Sew Together design is a website that helps people who are new at sewing find easy projects with step-by-step tutorials that are all in one place. The two main parts of Sew Together are the project search, which helps users find a project suited to their needs, and the step-by-step project tutorials. Other features of the site include keeping track of ongoing projects if you are logged in, allowing users to leave comments/notes on the tutorials themselves, and a glossary/sewing help section that contains help for basic techniques and skills involved in sewing.

 

The project search page allows the user to search through the project tutorials that are available on the site and filter them by relevant criteria, such as the estimated cost of the project and the difficulty. The appearance of the filters on the side went through some changes after the heuristic evaluation-- we added the checkboxes to increase visibility and make it easier for users to understand how they work (OR, not AND).
For this implementation, we have one representative project tutorial, "Strawberry Cream Roll". Were the site to be fully implemented, we would provide several more projects. While initially considering our design, we had thought about allowing users to also upload their own projects to the site, which would solve a problem of not having enough variety. After all, a beginning sewer will want a project that is not only easy but also personally fulfilling. After some debilitation, however, we decided not to allow for user-generated projects for two reasons. First of all, our intended user group does not cover the more experienced users who would be the ones uploading their own projects. Secondly, it would be too difficult to ensure that user-uploaded tutorials meet the level of beginner-friendliness that we want to maintain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The project search page allows the user to search through the project tutorials that are available on the site and filter them by relevant criteria, such as the estimated cost of the project and the difficulty. The appearance of the filters on the side went through some changes after the heuristic evaluation-- we added the checkboxes to increase visibility and make it easier for users to understand how they work (OR, not AND).

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