Show HN: Student wanted better way to discover clothes online

Same for me. I thought it was broken, as without scrolling to the bottom of the page, the buttons are not visible and the content itself isn't clickable.

Also it isn't obvious what X and Z are supposed to do before using them (as the explanatory text is hidden slightly behind the orange bar at the bottom for me at least). When Z is selected it is unclear how to return to the previous page, as the images on the previous page aren't clickable, but the only way to exit the 'Z' screen is to click the image. Just feels a bit inconsistent, that's all.

Personally, I find the placement of the up arrow being adjacent to the left arrow but the right arrow being placed on the far right a bit jarring. I expect it to be a block of three buttons together - left arrow, up arrow, right arrow - in the centre of the menu options.

Interesting idea though - good luck!

Re: Show HN: Student wanted better way to discover clothes online

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Post by jpwagner » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

This is really neat.

You should get rid of the words "a weekend project", you don't need an excuse if something is not perfect.

Re: Show HN: Student wanted better way to discover clothes online

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Post by kgodey » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

This is great, but price/size filtering would make it even better.

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Post by marquis » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

Looking at the dresses (girl here), it's kind of awkward to see the compressed width on the next image to come up. If you can adjust the transform to make it look more natural then it would be more fun to use. Happy to look at never-ending pictures of dresses for quite a while otherwise.

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Post by bastijn » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 8:03 PM UTC

Nice idea, points given for trying. the first thing that bugged me was the lack of overview. I actually like a 5x10 raster (or smth similar). Second, the buttons werent directly clear to me. I was half expecting to be able to slide every part of my body in there, like building a game character (that would be kinda cool).

More importantly, my gf, as heavy online shopper (she never admits ofcourse ^_^) shot the idea. Basically the same arguments: not able to quickly see stock. Zoom is full picture, while most nowadays use magnifying glasses, etc.

In the end, nice try. Fun idea. But it is not clear to me what is wrong with current webshops showing overviews in a grid, and details on click.

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Post by ParadisoShlee » Sun, Apr 07, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

damn excellent. Id love to see a filter forwards region if you grow the aggregator sources.