Design

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 project instructions themselves.


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.

While initially considering our design of the project, 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.



Each project tutorial has its own subsection, which consists of an overview page and a series of instructions, broken down step by step.

The overview page contains a picture of the finished project, a text description of the project, and a list of materials needed for the project. In order to help users gather what they need for the project, we help users find where to buy materials by providing a link to a Yelp page that lists nearby fabric and craft stores based on the user's location.

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